I have an inverse story from yours.<p>I&#x27;m a citizen and former resident of the UK, the UK for many reasons has a very loving relationship to the US, our young people are fashioned by the image of Television, and more than half of all English speaking entertaining media is american.<p>We like America&#x2F;Americans, by default before we learn politics.<p>I travelled to the US in 2013, and to Russia the same year.<p>What I saw was not &quot;good&quot; vs &quot;evil&quot; or, &quot;propaganda&quot; vs &quot;truth&quot;.<p>What I saw was exactly the same shit, I spoke to natives in both places, I travelled around.<p>Russia has it&#x27;s side of the story and America has theirs, America is good at spreading it&#x27;s propaganda outside of it&#x27;s borders and fostering the image of &quot;the beacon of light and purity of the world&quot; but those who actually take a sceptical or inquisitive eye to America see an insidious underbelly which is only parabled by that in Russia.<p>Russia is guilty of being no more evil than the US government, if anything they&#x27;re more honest with their intentions.<p>The differing factor is that we bought the kool-aid.