Why is ‘Russia’ a Cunt?
We know that up until its demise in 1991, the USSR had been quite cunty.
We know that the country now known as Russia is governed by Putin, who is roughly the cup of tea of some and the anathema of others. Just like in every democratic country the whole world over.
We know that it’s won Eurovision when it shouldn’t have, but we’ll park that for now.
Is it me being thick, or do I genuinely not get why the American left-wing media just routinely goes “Russia Russia Russia Russia” and “Putin Putin Putin Putin” as a slur against that very Eastern-European country. I might be young and naive, born as a (very proud to be) Thatcher’s child in 1979, but my understanding is that the cold war has ended.
I’m genuinely baffled and nonplussed as to why the completely mainstream, ie reaching out to the most viewership, US media is perpetuating this myth of ‘Russia’ being the ‘arch-enemy’ of the US, on the basis of seemingly nothing at all other than just making them able to say ‘Russia’, ‘Russian’ and ‘Putin’ innumerable times in any given broadcast. Am I missing something? I might just be ignorant.
I would link to the ingenious video of Rachel MadCow saying ‘Russia’ and ‘Putin’ about 190 times in one broadcast… but of course, that edit has been elided from YT with all algorithms warned at pain of digital death not to resurrect it.
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