For all those peoples around the world, who worship America as the land of milk and honey, and believe that adopting its principles and aligning their political policies with those of America will somehow mean that they will suddenly experience a comprehensive national renaissance, or that America will reward them by exporting to them massive prosperity, just take a look at how America treats its own. Let's take a brief look at Puerto Rico.
Around eight months ago, Hurricane Maria struck the Caribbean island, one of America's colonies, leaving it 'totally destroyed'. In the aftermath, with so much destruction, one might expect that the Feds would be putting together an aid package to rebuild the island's infrastructure.
Puerto Rico, by and large, still looks and operates much as though it were still
stuck in the dark ages, and at night, it definitely is, as
the power grid, damaged by Hurricane Maria, remains an unreliable public infrastructure all these months later.
The water situation isn't much better as the citizenry must additionally filter the water that comes from the tap, since its quality can't be taken for granted.
Comment: A Syrian boy comes out and tells his story about what happened to him - the media scoffes and calls it propaganda. A Syrian girl makes up story about Syria - the media mops it up. One sells the narrative, the other counters it. See how that works? Zakharova is right to call them out on their unethical behaviour. See also: Twitterati challenge journalist who complained Douma testimony as 'bizarre & underwhelming'