How did Russia suddenly become our enemy? Again. I thought we were friends after the USSR collapsed.
Is it because their leader is an asshole tyrant? How is that different from the the Saudis, who have been our buddies for decades despite their horrible human rights abuses? Or the Philippines, run by a guy who proudly recounts how he used to go around doing drive-by shootings on his motorcycle? Or Turkey, now run by an Islamist tyrant, and they’re still members of NATO, for god’s sake!
Or is it because of the so far evidence-free allegation that the Russian government “interfered” with the 2016 election? Mueller is running around indicting people willy-nilly for this and that, but so far there doesn’t seem to be a dragnet closing in on what was supposed to be the point of his investigation: “election interference”.
And even if it were true, wouldn’t it be a bit like chickens coming home to roost? In case you hadn’t noticed, we’re the ones who have a long history of subverting other countries’ elections, overthrowing elected governments and installing our puppets (think of Chile, think of the Shah of Iran, and try not to think of Libya or Iraq or Afghanistan lest you throw up all over yourself.)
No, sorry, the anti-Russia narrative just doesn’t add up. What does make sense, though, is that the U.S. war machine is worried about losing enemies to justify building ever more sophisticated and expensive killing apparatuses. And the global spying network is running scared that we might start questioning the need for their ever-growing budgets and their ever-growing reach into our private lives. So they plant memes in the mainstream media about Russia or Iraq or whoever they decide should be an enemy, and the craven “journalists” dutifully respond to their masters by repeating the lies endlessly until they become the “truth” du jour.
Ah, but there are the sheeple-zombies who spend their lives on sofas, munching snack food and staring at their TV sets; apparently they’re still buying the media’s claptrap. But they’re an old, dying breed, so I’m optimistic that the days of the media’s sycophantic shit-storms being able to influence people are severely numbered.
Wow, wouldn’t that be something … if people started thinking for themselves?
