@Starrynight -- what a politician says is not necessarily what he means nor is it what the people he serves desire, want or feel now or in the future. Talk to the people in the towns of these places you mention from varying age groups and discover that the sentiment is not as stated or monolithic.

This is why relations between countries seem to turn on a dime. The truth is always under pressure. China is hated by Russians, yet they are doing and will do great things with each other until the repressed truth comes out.

It was a direct question, and so the response.

@Eleua -- great post and video.

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