{"id":33506,"date":"2018-04-18T06:26:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T11:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33506"},"modified":"2018-04-18T06:26:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T11:26:59","slug":"west-v-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33506","title":{"rendered":"West v Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageTitle blogTitle\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/world-news\/war\/west-v-russia\/\">West v Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"contentWrap\">\n<div class=\"contentMeta\">\n<h6 class=\"blogBreadcrumb postDate\"><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"theContent\">\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/USA-v-Russia.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77149 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/USA-v-Russia.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/USA-v-Russia.jpg 833w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/USA-v-Russia-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/USA-v-Russia-768x250.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/USA-v-Russia-180x59.jpg 180w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/USA-v-Russia-600x195.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \"><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Japanese-Poster-FDR-War.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-77148 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Japanese-Poster-FDR-War.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Japanese-Poster-FDR-War.jpg 423w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Japanese-Poster-FDR-War-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Japanese-Poster-FDR-War-142x180.jpg 142w\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a>When government attempt to persuade the people to their side,\u00a0the rhetoric becomes so blatant it is stunning that so many people just believe what they are told. The typical tactic is always to paint your enemy as some \u201cmonster\u201d as Trump just called Assad. You must always demean an opponent and the simple fact that they engage in that tactic exposes the sad fact that this is a deliberate manipulation. When it comes to the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the West portrays him as a dictator, strongman, bad person, and some sort of crazed Russian patriot who wants to dominate the world somehow. All this rhetoric is what we call phase ONE, laying the seeds to justify engaging in war.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">Here is a Japanese War poster demonizing Roosevelt. You will find that every side issues the same propaganda. This is indeed Phase ONE. You must get the people on your side to support the war effort. To do so, you\u00a0must absolutely demonize your opponent.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">Ther point is not to defend Putin and try to show what is exaggerated\u00a0propaganda. This is simply a standard method of raising support among your people.\u00a0 neither going to dispute nor support that characterization. Despite the West\u2019s portrayal that Putin is some sort of <em>\u201cstrongman\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 seeking to dominate the world, Putin\u2019s popularity at home has only been increased. The sanctions the West imposed on Russia are his badge of honor just as the excessive reparation payments from people into the open arms of Hitler.<\/div>\n<div>The trade sanctions against China are doing the same thing. They create the reverse image that America is the evil power.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West v Russia When government attempt to persuade the people to their side,\u00a0the rhetoric becomes so blatant it is stunning that so many people just believe what they are told. The typical tactic is always to paint your enemy as some \u201cmonster\u201d as Trump just called Assad. You must always demean an opponent and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3218,7844,379,655,8279,694,857,965],"class_list":["post-33506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-donald-trump","tag-government","tag-propaganda","tag-rhetoric","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33507,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33506\/revisions\/33507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}