It sounds absurd at first listen, but Malta and Kosovo - two of the smallest actors in Europe - are bullying Russia by preventing its military overflights to Venezuela and attacking one of its UN staff members, respectively, which appear to be part and parcel of an American- backed perception management plan to weaken Moscow's soft power and ultimately undermine its Afro-Eurasian "balancing' act.
The Mainstream Media is full of stories about Russia supposedly "bullying" smaller nations, while
Alt-Media never tires of talking about how the US is doing the same, but neither of them have yet to address the curious fact that two of the smallest actors in Europe have recently bullied Russia. Malta
prevented Moscow from making military overflights to Venezuela, while Kosovo
just attacked one of its UN staff members with impunity. Although both incidents were separately reported on in the Mainstream and Alternative Medias, they haven't been tied together as part of the
same American-backed perception management plan to weaken Moscow's soft power. There's a prevailing notion that Great Powers are supposedly too strong to be bullied by small states, let alone an entity that Russia doesn't even recognize as "independent", but that line of thinking has been debunked after what Malta and Kosovo recently did to Russia, which makes Moscow look weak in the eyes of the world.
Comment: This comes on the heels of US sanctions on Cuba. Try as it might to retain its position world stage, US attempts to coerce much of the planet, from the trade war with China to the sanctions on Russia and Iran (to name just a few) are actually hastening its demise: