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FirebrandRoaring  ·  2757 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 20, 2017

    Russia is a near-peer military threat, so it has to be a boogeyman.

This might be collision of terms we use. I understand "boogeyman" to mean an intentionally vague entity that is used to scare people into submission. This is how I see Russia being perceived, although...

    I encourage you not to associate American political and media agendas with the global outlook of American citizens.

...this exposes my bias. I don't get to see Americans: only what they get to see on screens and in the papers.

How relative is public interest and political activity of the Russia/Trump scandal for an Average Standard American?