UNDERSTANDING RUSSIA It is hard for westerners subject to multiple competing ide

UNDERSTANDING RUSSIA

It is hard for westerners subject to multiple competing ideological frameworks while at the same time, protected by rule of law, in a high trust culture, where people largely tell the truth, to imagine how primitive, superstitious, pseudoscientific, paranoid, conspiratorial, the Russian mind is.

They live in a world of lies. In their world of lies they are rational actors.

They exist without the cultural luxuries we take for granted as human nature. They are anything but natural.

But it should be a lesson to us that the media frames opinion. It does not measure it.

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