That's the outcome of the war on truth. Two decades of TV saying one thing today, and the opposite thing the other day, while the internet offers a thousand m

That's the outcome of the war on truth. Two decades of TV saying one thing today, and the opposite thing the other day, while the internet offers a thousand mutually incompatible (and often, self-contradicting) accounts for any event worth talking about have annihilated people's ability to believe that truth exists. To them, everyone lies, everything is a lie. Putin, in comparison, is therefore honest - because he doesn't pretend he's not lying! Only fools believe. The smart people know that everyone lies. The game is to stick with the better lie. And what lie can be better than the one that makes you feel good and makes "the other side" furious? A grain of truth, a barrel of bullshit, and a complete detachment from reality - and you have the lie du jour. Putin isn't convincing people to believe in what he says. He just offers them better lies.