CDZ The image of the enemy in Russia and in the West

[The Sage of Main Street]

Why can’t we be friends and share a space station.

And again - Russians in space are portrayed in the West more often like this

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At what we all see it. And many of these films are popular with us, because we can abstract from the image of Russia, formed by the West. But this does not go unnoticed and as a result, the attitude towards the West in Russia is deteriorating without the slightest influence of the Kremlin. The hands of Western propaganda itself.

Look the Other Way

The images are controlled and produced by our sheltered, ignorant, war-profiting ruling class, who need to create an enemy in order to push us away from fighting them.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

I can in advance notice that it is the West that very actively shapes the image of itself as an enemy within Russia. From the point of view of the Russians, the appearance of such a caricature immediately puts the author on one shelf with the Nazis.

The U.S. inherited "The Great Game" that has been going on for centuries, from Great Britain, and off on other western European countries. It keeps going because of the view that 'leopards don't change their stripes", and Russia has always been aggressively expansionist since Peter, and this has been a constant plank of Russian foreign policy regardless of ideological cosmetics over those centuries.

It is a valid one, and Putin has kept up the 'tradition'. Also Putin is a gangster, former KGB, not a highly regraded resume entry as far as the West is concerned. The current alignment with Iran's govt. is also a concern.

How "Is Is" Led to ISIS

That goes back to 1853, when England and France united with jihadi Turkey in order to defeat Russia in the Crimea.

In 1994, entangled with NYETO, President Clinton collaborated with jihadi Bosnia against Serbia, a Russian ally.

In 200l, Wonderboy W occupied Afghanistan as a border outpost against Russia.

 

[Picaro]

I can in advance notice that it is the West that very actively shapes the image of itself as an enemy within Russia. From the point of view of the Russians, the appearance of such a caricature immediately puts the author on one shelf with the Nazis.

The U.S. inherited "The Great Game" that has been going on for centuries, from Great Britain, and off on other western European countries. It keeps going because of the view that 'leopards don't change their stripes", and Russia has always been aggressively expansionist since Peter, and this has been a constant plank of Russian foreign policy regardless of ideological cosmetics over those centuries.

It is a valid one, and Putin has kept up the 'tradition'. Also Putin is a gangster, former KGB, not a highly regraded resume entry as far as the West is concerned. The current alignment with Iran's govt. is also a concern.

How "Is Is" Led to ISIS

That goes back to 1853, when England and France united with jihadi Turkey in order to defeat Russia in the Crimea.

In 1994, entangled with NYETO, President Clinton collaborated with jihadi Bosnia against Serbia, a Russian ally.

In 200l, Wonderboy W occupied Afghanistan as a border outpost against Russia.

The term Great Game became fashionable in the 19th Century, yes, but the 'Game' started at the end of the 17th century, when Peter inherited the Russian throne in 1696, and began his massive modernization campaign. They have been perceived as a threat ever since, and of course even more so as the borders of the British Empire gradually encircled the Russian Empire.

How Peter the Great Modernized Russia

They've been aggressively expansionist ever since. After the collapse, Putin and others want a 'Reconquista', necessary for the same reasons Hitler was left with no other options but invading his neighbors and looting them after the collapse of his domestic economic programs in 1938; Russia is far too corrupt to survive on its own production any more, they need to rob everybody else around them just to keep going.

 

[flacaltenn]

Why can’t we be friends and share a space station.

And again - Russians in space are portrayed in the West more often like this

View attachment 184702

At what we all see it. And many of these films are popular with us, because we can abstract from the image of Russia, formed by the West. But this does not go unnoticed and as a result, the attitude towards the West in Russia is deteriorating without the slightest influence of the Kremlin. The hands of Western propaganda itself.

That's a much cooler look than a backwards Baseball cap. So what? It's better than videos of astronauts playing with their food in zero gravity..

Not your LARGEST propaganda worry..

 

[xyz]

That depends if you are talking about an official or unofficial image. I would bet during Communism the image of the enemy to many in the Soviet Union was the KGB.