Good point. The experience of everyday life (paying bills, insecure employment, social breakdown) is a force for reality all its own. No propaganda can match it. America is a low trust, low cohesion, society that prioritises the interests of the few over the many. The increasing use of scare tactics and scape-goats is proof that the system is under pressure.
Yes, such tactics have limited use, and they must know that. They've bet the rent that Russia will cave before they do, utterly. That of course is rank stupidity.
The decision-making elite have no personal experience of the kind of lives led by the Western masses, let alone the experience of ordinary Russians. Social and cultural distance disables them.
Good point. The experience of everyday life (paying bills, insecure employment, social breakdown) is a force for reality all its own. No propaganda can match it. America is a low trust, low cohesion, society that prioritises the interests of the few over the many. The increasing use of scare tactics and scape-goats is proof that the system is under pressure.
Yes, such tactics have limited use, and they must know that. They've bet the rent that Russia will cave before they do, utterly. That of course is rank stupidity.
The decision-making elite have no personal experience of the kind of lives led by the Western masses, let alone the experience of ordinary Russians. Social and cultural distance disables them.