Not taking sides however where do you place the USA when it occupies other Nations and please don’t feed me nonsense about “freeing the people”. I don’t remember anyone appointing the USA to be a police of the world or is it bullying such a fine line and so opaque.
You do realise that the USA wanted and invited Russia to join NATO in early 90’s. History I know, I know it’s so yesteryear who has the time 😝Yes. If you remember Article 5 of the NATO treaty: An attack on one NATO party is an attack on them all. To reinforce that fact other NATO parties participate in actions against our adversary however they see fit, which in this case is supporting the UK's sanctions against Russian tech oligarchs.
In terms of Huawei that can be more interpreted with Article 3: "In order more effectively to achieve the objectives of this Treaty, the Parties, separately and jointly, by means of continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid, will maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack." The reason Huawei is banned in the United States is because their phones and commlines were being wiretapped trying to easedrop on our government infrastructure and other corporations and organizations. So the European NATO members followed suit cancelling their 5G tower upgrades with Huawei.
There's a reason NATO has stuck around decades after the Iron Curtain fell.
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Media is propaganda used by Government’s and does not matter what corner of the globe it is coming from. Stay educated, stay neutral and make informed decisions.
My partner is Russian (we don’t live in Russia), their family all lives in Russia. The family relationship is currently torn, with regular arguments taking place. My partner shares external news sources and citations with her family, trying to show an external viewpoint, and is immediately shot down saying that the content is staged/false/incorrect. Such is the brainwashing of the peoples. They are all well educated, with degrees and so on. Yet there almost appears to be a religious truth inside the country, at least for the family and friends that I regularly speak to there, that they are in the right and cannot be questioned.
It's odd that you would put misinformation in a post lecturing people about regurgitating propaganda.
What, and go back to communicating with people via a lousy Messages app which doesn't work properly if your recipient doesn't have the right 'colour of bubble'? No thanks.
What are you so cheerful about? Haven't you received a call up to the army yet? Or have you managed to escape to Georgia?
'story we're fed in the West'
At least Sir Edward Heath of the UK never had any of these issues. The word on the street is that he was burying them straight in the garden after he was done with them.
Actually, both USA and Russia have the right to be a "global police" as a winners in WWII and whether somebody likes it or not the 1945 world order is still pretty much intact. USA was just more active about it and Russia was way too passive and not exactly "collecting" on its victories.
No, no country has the right to do this. The difference is — USA can afford to, and Russia can't. The USSR tried to and went bankrupt. Russia is not the USSR, and cannot compete.
No it isn't. I think you're misinterpreting 'story' as something that can't be true. My point is that whilst we may be making opinions based on a story that more accurately reflects the reality than the story being promoted by Putin & Co, it is also true that 'our' story has also been manipulated with a degree of propaganda. I remember telling a Russian colleague how the UK media was reporting on life in Moscow under the sanctions - he just laughed.
It was a bad influence that instilled bad habits that I have been unable to break since.