According to a Sputnik survey conducted just before the NATO summit in Brussels, Italians, Germans, and the French largely do not believe in NATO's claims of a possible Russian invasion of Poland and the Baltic states. Meanwhile, Britons and Americans are of a different opinion.
The majority of respondents in Italy (69%) and Germany (60%) and nearly half of Frenchmen (47%) do not believe that Russia has plans to invade Poland and the Baltic states. Such an opinion is held mainly by the older generation with a high level of education.
In the UK and US, on the contrary, well-educated people do not rule out a Russian invasion of Eastern Europe.
Forty-three percent of Britons and 55% of Americans, mostly Democrats, agree that such is possible.
The survey involved 4,005 respondents and was conducted from April 21-27 by the oldest French company engaged in studying public opinion - IFop.
In June 2016, under the pretext of thwarting potential "Russian aggression", NATO declared it would deploy four battalions to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland.
Moscow, for its part, has repeatedly stressed that Russia will never attack any of the alliance's countries. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov,
NATO knows this but is merely using an excuse to deploy more troops near Russia's borders.
Comment: It seems the people in some countries are more immune to the propaganda that is continually put forth by Western media or it could be that the onslaught is not as wide ranging in these countries.
Interestingly enough, another recent poll conducted in the United States found:
"Sixty-five percent of voters believe there is a lot of fake news in the mainstream media," a news report explaining the poll revealed. "That number includes 80 percent of Republicans, 60 percent of independents and 53 percent of Democrats."
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The report concluded that the result is that both Trump's image and US public trust in the media are at all-time lows.
Now only if some Americans and other Western citizens could put 2 + 2 together and see the ties between the media and their respective deep states and that the fake news put out by the various national medias is pushing the agenda of the deep state to demonize and lie about Russia and its intentions. Hopefully, the efforts of honorable people, such as
Oliver Stone, can chip away at the false representations.
Comment: It seems the people in some countries are more immune to the propaganda that is continually put forth by Western media or it could be that the onslaught is not as wide ranging in these countries.
Interestingly enough, another recent poll conducted in the United States found: Now only if some Americans and other Western citizens could put 2 + 2 together and see the ties between the media and their respective deep states and that the fake news put out by the various national medias is pushing the agenda of the deep state to demonize and lie about Russia and its intentions. Hopefully, the efforts of honorable people, such as Oliver Stone, can chip away at the false representations.