Thats not very common you know.
And what of Russia and their dumb nationalists? In Russia the voters themselves have dropped any kind of wish to pick a government that would improve their own country, but rather choose one that would face their ethernal enemy, the West. The entire face of Russian nationalism is to be an adversary to the West. While the face of Western countries nationalism is entirely concentrated on internal politics. They support their countries armed forces aslong as it stays home. Thats basically it. To be a nationalist you dont have to be pro-nato or anti-russian. You can be neutral in all of this.
That is not true at all. Many nationalists would support their military whether they are protecting the borders or bombing a nation because our politicians told them to do so under a false pretext. A pretext based on lines to cover the thinly veiled real agenda that our mainstream media whom just so happen to tow the government line always seem to be too blind to spot and bring out into public debate.
Of course suppression of debate is prevalent in western media, they only hold strictly scripted, strongly corporate narratives biased in favour of the government position. But when the governments position is critical of another nation, our media go nuts, they really take a chunk out of our governments enemies whether justified or not, and this media behaviour further hypes nationalist ideals and support of an aggressive foreign policy.
After all it's hard to deny that the Wests foreign policy has been the most aggressive and destructive out of all regions in the world this century. You could cite Russia for bringing Crimea back into its orbit without so much more than a death or two, single figures, you could cite Russia for blocking Georgia's attempt at an aggressive annex of South Osetia and Abkhazia by FORCE, but in its own actions Russia as a nation THIS CENTURY has been an example to the rest of the world on how a country can behave responsibly while REALLY protecting its national interests and not the interests of its corporations, Iraqi, Kuwaiti, Libyan oil, Syrian gas, Ukrainian gas...
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