{"id":130247,"date":"2022-11-27T16:11:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T23:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=130247"},"modified":"2022-11-27T16:11:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T23:11:14","slug":"why-do-americans-hate-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/27\/why-do-americans-hate-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Americans Hate Putin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"Articles, Columns, and Major Blog Posts by Mike Whitney\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/author\/mike-whitney\/\" rel=\"author\">MIKE WHITNEY<\/a><span class=\"datewords\">\u00a0 Courtesy The Unz Review<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p id=\"p_1_1\">Why do Americans hate Putin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"p_1_2\">Tucker Carlson thinks he knows. Here\u2019s what he said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>\u2026 Democrats in Washington have told you it\u2019s your patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin. It\u2019s not a suggestion. It\u2019s a mandate. Anything less than hatred for Putin is treason.<\/strong><\/p><p>Many Americans have obeyed this directive. They now dutifully hate Vladimir Putin. Maybe you\u2019re one of them.&nbsp;<strong>Hating Putin has become the central purpose of America\u2019s foreign policy<\/strong>.<strong>&nbsp;It\u2019s the main thing that we talk about. Entire cable channels are now devoted to it.<\/strong>&nbsp;Very soon, that hatred of Vladimir Putin could bring the United States into a conflict in Eastern Europe.<\/p><p>Before that happens, it might be worth asking yourself: What is this really about? Why do I hate Putin so much? Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? Has he shipped every middle-class job in my town to Russia? Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked my business and kept me indoors for two years? Is he teaching my children to embrace racial discrimination? Is he making fentanyl?\u201d (Tucker Carlson,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/tucker-carlson-hate-putin-americans-suffer\">Americans have been trained to hate Putin, and will suffer because of it<\/a>, Fox News)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"p_1_6\">Is Carlson right, do Americans hate Putin because the media and the political class in Washington have told them to do so?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"p_1_7\">Yes and no. Yes, the media and the politicians have played a big role in the demonization of Putin. But, no, they\u2019re not the main drivers of this smear campaign. That designation belongs to the plutocrats behind-the-scenes who use the media to attack Putin in order to promote their own globalist agenda. That\u2019s what\u2019s really going on; the news is being shaped to advance the interests of elites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full Story<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/mwhitney\/why-do-americans-hate-putin\/\">Why Do Americans Hate Putin?, by Mike Whitney &#8211; The Unz Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIKE WHITNEY\u00a0 Courtesy The Unz Review Why do Americans hate Putin? Tucker Carlson thinks he knows. Here\u2019s what he said: \u2026 Democrats in Washington have told you it\u2019s your patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin. It\u2019s not a suggestion. It\u2019s a mandate. Anything less than hatred for Putin is treason. Many Americans have obeyed this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}