And, most eerily, a world where you can talk about Russian foreign policy… and barely ever mention Putin. That's because it's the West that demonises leaders a

And, most eerily, a world where you can talk about Russian foreign policy… and barely ever mention Putin. That's because it's the West that demonises leaders and not the country for some reason, so in the West we hear "Putin did this, Putin did that ...." But when we talk about "our people" it's "The US did this, Britain did that, Japan does the other ..." Russia Today (aka RT), the [...] outlet funded by the Russian government Why is the fact that RT is funded by the Russian Government so roundly emphasised as if that were something unusual? We don't read every time we see the BBC or the ABC written about in print the same stuff along the lines of "The BBC, the outlet funded by the British Government, stated today ..." or perhaps "The ABC, the outlet funded by the Australian Government, stated today ..."