Actually I think that attitude is pretty typical of a Russian, having grown-up in a culture polluted by seven decades of brazen Soviet lies.
I think you are right. The Middle East is like that as well. The media in those places are far less honest and accurate than even here. Go to Jordan or Egypt, for example, and you will find every bad thing in the peoples lives is blamed on nefarious conspiracies involving Israel, the US, or British Colonization.
I think part of the problem is the mosques teach an Islam that is infallible, that is better than all other religious, that looks down of people from other faiths - and yet these Islamic countries mostly suck. They are corrupt, uncompetitive, etc. The people are told by their Imam's that this is because the West is conspiring to hold Islam down. And that if they could rid themselves of the shackles of conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory, they'd be the greatest civilization in the world.
Both my great-grandmother and grandmother escaped the evils of the Soviets back in the 1920s, and even after emigrating to the United States, they were always suspicious of the police.
I would say that this level of skepticism is not only healthy but necessary. The burden of proof should be on the accuser, and if the proof isn’t there, then someone’s rights were infringed upon.
That being said, the evidence made public is pretty damning, so please don’t take this post as a defense of the accused. I’m simply pointing out that many foreigners are suspicious of police states, and for good reason.
Yep, and it’s an insult to us. Given the fecklessness of our government, I doubt they could mount a successful panty raid.
Yes..it is called anti-American soviet style brainwashing techniques.