petergardener:
"If the objective is to make Mr Putin appear isolated on the world stage in order to make him less popular at home, it isn't working and also shows a profound misunderstanding of the Russian mind-set. ...
"Our Western political leaders also have a profound misunderstanding of strategy. Just about everything they do in relation to Russia is wrong and gains the West nothing. But they do like willy waving. Just a pity they do so much damage while they are at it."
RedBaron9495:
"With the public, the effect is rebounding and probably starting to gain Putin more support and worldwide sympathy. This British news forum is good example of that. They made the mistake of going into overkill...and the public are wising up to the propaganda. They seen this all before prior to Iraq 2003 invasion"and again with Gaddafi."
Circle of DNA:
"Well, the lives of average folks in Russia has been drastically improved since Putin took the reins of power. He defends Russian interests, fights the empire of chaos, and is massively supported by his people. He is also well educated and a first class statesmen. What is there not to like about him?"
Alltaxationistheft:
"The Russian people appreciate how lucky they've been for Vladimir Putin to be around at the right time to resist the Neocon supremacist Wolfowitz doctrine..."Since the 1990s, the war mongering maniacs in the West have been planning to asset strip, and plunder Russia via 'liberal democracy,' claiming its natural resources while funding serial inter-ethnic tribal wars via US allies Qatar and Saudi Arabia...
"In the 1990s, Russian people were driven into starvation, prostitution and suicide under pro American 'Liberal' US corporate puppet Yeltsin... but Putin kicked the CIA EU Mossad lunatics out and has been re-building a Russia into a world power ever since."
anonymous:
"The classless western free (loading) world that produces very little except paper currency, lies and bullshit. I am surprised Mr. Putin came and surrounded himself with such low-life scum.
When all the western oligarchs hate someone as much as they hate President Putin, you know he has to be doing something right."
There's no need to be selective. Curious readers should go to any editorial platform that covers the crisis in Ukraine and judge for themselves if what I'm saying is true or not. The comments above are in no way extraordinary. What they do show, however, is that the media is losing the propaganda war in pretty stunning fashion, and that's a huge victory for ordinary people. It's very difficult for elites to prosecute their criminal wars or implement their rip-off economic policies when people can clearly see what they're up to.
Now check out this article in the German paper Zeit Online where the author bemoans the media's loss of influence. The article is titled "How Putin Divides":
"Why do so many German citizens judge the crisis in Crimea in a completely different way than politicians and the media?
"In my 30 years of experience with debates, I have never seen anything like what is now happening in Germany in the dispute over Russia and Crimea....
"Unless surveys are misleading, two-thirds of German citizens, voters and readers stand opposed to four-fifths of the political class -- in other words, to the government, to the overwhelming majority of members of parliament and to most newspapers and broadcasters. But what does "stand" mean? Many are downright up in arms. And from what one can gauge from letters to the editor, the share of critics seems significantly higher now than what was triggered by Sarrazin's inflammatory book back then." (Zeit Online)
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