I do not usually agree with 'towel boy' but he has a good point. Since when did it become 'cool' to trust a murdering dictator more than our own government? Not that I trust our own government because of bullshit like stuff Fauci, Gates and others have pulled but I sure wouldn't give a murdering dictator Putin an edge of credibility of any kind.
"Our government" is a complicated beast these days.
No, I don't trust Mr Putin, not at all.
I do think he's a smart and capable man, I don't think he's crazy.
What I see with "our government" is, it's become so big and so huge that special interests are able to attach to little pieces of it and call it their own, without anyone else being much aware of it. Really, it's rare for a piece of information to come from "our government", most of the time it comes from someone "within" the government, like those anonymous senior officials the news media is so fond of.
So we find out about things, like the CIA running Central American drugs to trade for Iranian weapons. And then we learn it's nothing new, the CIA has been running drugs since 1959! They're probably still doing it!
I can't in good conscience be one of these "my country right or wrong" people. I care about my country's resilience and its perception in the eyes of the world, so I'd like to keep it on the straight path.
As far as Russia, I'm not worried. My take is that Mr Putin is smart enough to realize how much of the world he can manage and how much he can't.
Regarding the media reporting, all I can say is, we have rats in our nest and some of them make noise.
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