That is a wonderful word-salad. Incoherent and meaningless.

If you think your article from "military.com" is explicit evidence, there's nothing more to be said. That's just sad.

I said if any other civilised country would riot, you claim they would not and have not, and when pressed on that claim, your response is not to back up your claim, but to accuse me of resorting to false equivalence. Sounds like something a certain orange man would do...

Going to war with forgein nations is what's fueling the right in Europe? You need to put the booze down. First of all, even the far right in most of Europe is still more left leaning than the US left. To compare right wing policies in Europe and US is actually a false equivalence. They're not even close to equal. Some views are shared yes. But that doesn't not equate an entire political standing.

What is fueling the right in europe, is having to clean up the humanitarian crisis the US have been leaving behind in the middle East for over 20 years.

The US bomb their homes, demolish their schools, fuels their insurgency, which leads to even more civilian displacement. And where can they go? To the US? Fat chance. There's no way to reach US shores and the US refuses to grant asylum to the millions of people they have displaced through their actions. The only realistic recourse they have is to smuggle themselves into Europe and hope for the best.

And now... the US is doing it AGAIN. Will they do anything to clean up the mess they're leaving behind? No. Their politicians supporting the ongoing war is adamant that they have no responsibility as to what comes after. They just wanna go in, bomb the shit out of them, and leave. And what does the US people do? Nothing. Too worried about affording the food they need to survive. And god forbid they ever get sick or end up in a medical emergency.

So sincerely. Fuck off with your bullshit. Americans voted for that idiot twice. They saw first hand what happened the first time, and gladly went in for dessert.

This is as true in Russia as it is in the US. Propaganda doesn't make people stupid. It's made for stupid people. It's hardly surprising that the divide between Democrats and republicans can be measured by their education. Or lack there of.

I understand what you're trying to say. I don't necssesarily disagree, I think we just call it different things.

I'll explain my thoughts like this. All of our beliefs, what we're capable of, is like seeds. When we are raised, our parents, teachers, situations that affect us, plant them. Some we plant ourselves.

Not all of the seeds will grow. Throughout, our parents, friends, teachers, reward the growth of certain seeds and punish the growth of others. Parents especially might even try to rip out a seedling before it grows bigger.

you get the idea.

What I think mass media is doing (radicalisation), is encouraging the growth of seeds already planted but never encouraged to grow. And over a long course of time, the continuous reinforcement have made it grow into a tree. A full blown belief.

What I think brainwashing is doing, is taking one of those trees, chopping it down, and planting a sapling in its place.

Upon reflection. I do agree that some people are probably being brainwashed. Their trees have been rotting away and it doesn't take much to fell it.

But I think most are being radicalised.

Maybe those words mean the same, maybe I'm just making a distinction on my own. But at least you understand my thought process.

As to your last question. I think we do care, we just don't know it's happening. When we learn of new situations, we fall back on our forest of beliefs to guide us on how we feel about it. But if we were to care deeply about everything awful, well, I don't think there's enough hours in a year to cover it all before new awful things happen.