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How the world views the US elections, from Israel to North Korea
Russia has played an unexpectedly prominent role in this year’s US election, although the extent of the Kremlin’s involvement in hacking Democratic servers and the WikiLeaks disclosures will probably never be known. What is clear is that Moscow has enjoyed making trouble. Vladimir Putin has a personal dislike of Hillary Clinton going back to her time as secretary of state, while Trump fits perfectly into the mould of “chaos candidates” that Russia has supported in other western countries.
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What if, and I know this is a stretch for a lot of people, we were to treat the Russian Federation as a giant and formidable country with its own people and politics and interests and backyard? Say, instead of a demonized cartoon caricature of a foreign leader the way we do every other country we're going to war with? What'd that be like, I wonder.
We may end up not getting blown up....what fun would that be?
You realize that would require the government acting like people aren't idiots, right? There are two problems with this: (1) they believe we are idiots, and (2) given that we keep them in power, they may actually be right.
People don't want to learn or think, they want the answers fed to them. As a teacher I see this every single day.
"There are two problems with this: (1) they believe we are idiots, and (2) given that we keep them in power, they may actually be right."
There's a bumper sticker lurking in that comment.