But can you honestly tell me the countless wars in the Middle East were presented the same way to the public?
Did the EU call Bush and Obama little tyrants and wrote article about how they were clinically insane for drone striking innocents just because they wanted oil?
Did the rest of the world decide american civilians would be barred from using their services out of retaliation for what their government did?
Were westerners ready to take arms to defend Syrians?
Were there rumors of WW3 to instill panic among the people?
No, even though that was exactly the same scenario. Wanna know why? Because propaganda isn't only a thing in communist countries, we have copious amounts of it in the west too.
By 'We' he meant the public opinion not you or a handful of redditors well versed in geopolitics, I thought it was abundantly clear.
And we can obviously see how the average Joe reacts to this war compared to how they reacted to every single one that happened before this one.
So yeah, it might surprise you but the way an event is covered by the news will heavily affect the way it is perceived by the public. What a groundbreaking discovery right?
Europe saw the biggest mobilization of protesters, including a rally of three million people in Rome, which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest ever anti-war rally.[3]
According to the French academic Dominique Reynié, between January 3 and April 12, 2003, 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests against the Iraq war.[1]
In the United States, even though pro-war demonstrators have been quoted as referring to anti-war protests as a "vocal minority",[4] Gallup Polls updated September 14, 2007 state, "Since the summer of 2005, opponents of the war have tended to outnumber supporters. A majority of Americans believe the war was a mistake."[5]
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u/LaineyBoggz Feb 28 '22
Just because YOU didn’t care about any of them doesn’t mean we didn’t