Well, looking at the world from my own Central Eastern European point of view, including the US empire, and studying the past forty years, we have gone from the former respect , love and limitless trust to a endless disgusting mistrust. Back then, we were happy when we could sometimes get our hands on a US newspaper behind the Iron Curtain, now we spit when we hear what the American media on duty lied about, from which it doesn't matter what you read, which newspaper, news channel or television, everywhere you get that centralized, perceptibly one-hand lie ! Well, news production can certainly work there as the Pulitzer Prize winner Udo Ulfkotte, who died under suspicious circumstances (his pacemaker malfunctioned in a strange way), described in his book (The bought journalists) that in Germany there is always a secret service officer sitting next to every journalist who writes an article, who tells him that what can they describe to the public ! Germany is not ashamed to describe the truth, it is an occupied country to this day where the Germans cannot even let out a loud fart without the permission of their detention officers ! But after studying the Free American Press (laughs), I have a strong suspicion that the colleagues of the same officers who censor "freedom" in the countries of the occupied vassals are the same as in the USA !
PS: I recommend reading Udo Ulfkotte's books, maybe you will look at your world with slightly different eyes after that !
Today, the person “sitting next to every journalist” — is the bought and paid for editor. Actually, the editor is on the the other end of the computer. In the 90’s, journalists reported seeing their copy changed before their very eyes. If they complained, they were demoted or dumped so that today we have nobody willing to not toe the line. Accept Wikileaks and we see the price exacted for working there.
Most (not all) of the Poles that I know are still all in, to the point where a Pole can imagine no greater praise than an American calling him a good dog.
Hungarian-Polish friendship goes back several centuries, we are the only nation, I proudly state, on whom the Poles could always count ! But their current behavior is shocking to us, and we are very worried about them ! They have apparently forgotten their history thoroughly, but they should only look back to the 1930s, when they had a lot of faith in French-British promises and, just like now in the US , they believed themselves to be bigger than reality. The end result is known, their "friends" pushed them in 1945, just like us, into the bloody paws of Joszif Visserionovich Stalin, from which grip we can only be freed in 1991, to get into another no less deadly grip ! Hereby, I would like to send a message to our Polish friends with a saying "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."
Take away Russia, and Poland would go from America's Special Little Buddy to a rather yappy middling satrapy of no particular importance, like Colombia with delusions of grandeur but no cocaine.
For that matter, Ukraine would shift from.Muh Beacon Of Freedom And Democracy to a pariah state.
On the other side of the divide, here in the US, my experience in the early 90s was a lot like you describe. So much hope for a better world with the end of the Cold War. It's heart breaking looking back over the past 30 years and seeing what happened and where we are.
(Like you, I place the preponderance of the blame on the US Empire. I admit during the 90s supporting most of its actions attempting to lock in unipolar dominance over the world, expecting this to be the triumph of a force for good. I was very naive. And the Empire has destroyed any trust anyone could have in it.)
I know the local conditions in the USA well, since the majority of my family lives there and I have been visiting there regularly for more than forty years, so I get my experiences directly from the first hand ! My first visit was in 1980, when the communist dictatorship allowed me to visit my father living in exile by holding my wife and little daughter hostage. Back then, I could still see the real "American Dream" that the Free World could offer to all decent people who wanted freedom and wanted to work. For me, who had five special professions and was one of the leading professionals in my country, a successful life was just within reach, but I was not able to leave my family, no matter how good a life might have been waiting for me. But it was good to know that there is a free world on earth where you are not persecuted for your religion and your political views, but this view has changed in me in the nearly forty years that have passed since then, as I have seen how the former dream has turned into a world that I would definitely not want it for myself or my family. The USA, that is, the dark power that took over the "Land of the Free" took away from us the illusion that kept so many of us alive while we languished in the gray monotony of a communist dictatorship. The picture that I once saw and experienced myself is the picture of the community of hardworking American people. has faded, and now I have such images of the USA as the ruins of once-prosperous factories that were moved abroad for profit, and as the endless image of unfortunate people running to drugs in their final desperation, wandering like zombies in big cities! Is there a future for hard-working young people who want to do things here ?
Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective--one that few people have--on how the promise of a much better world for all people that seemed so much within reach just a few decades ago has been taken away.
I do it so that my stories might help people to open their eyes!
Not to mention that if someone (the USA) appoints you as the leading power of the planet, it certainly comes with obligations! He should behave like that, and not like a puffing violent warlord in Somalia!
I was fortunate enough to see Udo interviewed before he died. Never could find the book at that time, but nothing surprises me about the crimes of the CIA
Well, looking at the world from my own Central Eastern European point of view, including the US empire, and studying the past forty years, we have gone from the former respect , love and limitless trust to a endless disgusting mistrust. Back then, we were happy when we could sometimes get our hands on a US newspaper behind the Iron Curtain, now we spit when we hear what the American media on duty lied about, from which it doesn't matter what you read, which newspaper, news channel or television, everywhere you get that centralized, perceptibly one-hand lie ! Well, news production can certainly work there as the Pulitzer Prize winner Udo Ulfkotte, who died under suspicious circumstances (his pacemaker malfunctioned in a strange way), described in his book (The bought journalists) that in Germany there is always a secret service officer sitting next to every journalist who writes an article, who tells him that what can they describe to the public ! Germany is not ashamed to describe the truth, it is an occupied country to this day where the Germans cannot even let out a loud fart without the permission of their detention officers ! But after studying the Free American Press (laughs), I have a strong suspicion that the colleagues of the same officers who censor "freedom" in the countries of the occupied vassals are the same as in the USA !
PS: I recommend reading Udo Ulfkotte's books, maybe you will look at your world with slightly different eyes after that !
Today, the person “sitting next to every journalist” — is the bought and paid for editor. Actually, the editor is on the the other end of the computer. In the 90’s, journalists reported seeing their copy changed before their very eyes. If they complained, they were demoted or dumped so that today we have nobody willing to not toe the line. Accept Wikileaks and we see the price exacted for working there.
Most (not all) of the Poles that I know are still all in, to the point where a Pole can imagine no greater praise than an American calling him a good dog.
Hungarian-Polish friendship goes back several centuries, we are the only nation, I proudly state, on whom the Poles could always count ! But their current behavior is shocking to us, and we are very worried about them ! They have apparently forgotten their history thoroughly, but they should only look back to the 1930s, when they had a lot of faith in French-British promises and, just like now in the US , they believed themselves to be bigger than reality. The end result is known, their "friends" pushed them in 1945, just like us, into the bloody paws of Joszif Visserionovich Stalin, from which grip we can only be freed in 1991, to get into another no less deadly grip ! Hereby, I would like to send a message to our Polish friends with a saying "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."
Take away Russia, and Poland would go from America's Special Little Buddy to a rather yappy middling satrapy of no particular importance, like Colombia with delusions of grandeur but no cocaine.
For that matter, Ukraine would shift from.Muh Beacon Of Freedom And Democracy to a pariah state.
On the other side of the divide, here in the US, my experience in the early 90s was a lot like you describe. So much hope for a better world with the end of the Cold War. It's heart breaking looking back over the past 30 years and seeing what happened and where we are.
(Like you, I place the preponderance of the blame on the US Empire. I admit during the 90s supporting most of its actions attempting to lock in unipolar dominance over the world, expecting this to be the triumph of a force for good. I was very naive. And the Empire has destroyed any trust anyone could have in it.)
I know the local conditions in the USA well, since the majority of my family lives there and I have been visiting there regularly for more than forty years, so I get my experiences directly from the first hand ! My first visit was in 1980, when the communist dictatorship allowed me to visit my father living in exile by holding my wife and little daughter hostage. Back then, I could still see the real "American Dream" that the Free World could offer to all decent people who wanted freedom and wanted to work. For me, who had five special professions and was one of the leading professionals in my country, a successful life was just within reach, but I was not able to leave my family, no matter how good a life might have been waiting for me. But it was good to know that there is a free world on earth where you are not persecuted for your religion and your political views, but this view has changed in me in the nearly forty years that have passed since then, as I have seen how the former dream has turned into a world that I would definitely not want it for myself or my family. The USA, that is, the dark power that took over the "Land of the Free" took away from us the illusion that kept so many of us alive while we languished in the gray monotony of a communist dictatorship. The picture that I once saw and experienced myself is the picture of the community of hardworking American people. has faded, and now I have such images of the USA as the ruins of once-prosperous factories that were moved abroad for profit, and as the endless image of unfortunate people running to drugs in their final desperation, wandering like zombies in big cities! Is there a future for hard-working young people who want to do things here ?
Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective--one that few people have--on how the promise of a much better world for all people that seemed so much within reach just a few decades ago has been taken away.
Best wishes to you. LM
Thank you L.M.
I do it so that my stories might help people to open their eyes!
Not to mention that if someone (the USA) appoints you as the leading power of the planet, it certainly comes with obligations! He should behave like that, and not like a puffing violent warlord in Somalia!
Noblesse oblige - meaning "nobility obliges".
Regards from Hungary
I was fortunate enough to see Udo interviewed before he died. Never could find the book at that time, but nothing surprises me about the crimes of the CIA
Wooo hooooo, the first voice from behind the curtain speaking truth.
It is so refreshing to hear from someone that has open eyes and no funding from CIA cutouts.