How the West Descended Into Idiocy

In their propaganda war with Russia, the US and its allies have been getting high on their own supply — and its killing us.

Joe Brunoli

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This New York Times cartoon depicts Putin as a hapless loser and conflates him with Donald Trump, the Times’s other arch nemesis {Source: The New York Times/ Patrick Chappatte]

It all started many years ago…

The Western populations have been force fed a steady diet of anti-Russian and anti-Putin propaganda for decades, and all those propaganda chickens are now coming home to roost.

Americans, Britons, Canadians, Europeans have all been lied to so much and for so long that they are literally willing to believe ANYTHING about Russia and about its President.

This is a very dangerous development. It is already leading to some serious cognitive dissonance, and will, eventually, lead to psychic shock of a most devastating kind.

And the worst thing is: no one in charge even knows the truth. It is one thing to mislead the citizenry; it is another thing to mislead yourself and the decision makers.

In short, it is a very dangerous situation when leaders start to actually believe their own propaganda.

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Joe Brunoli

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