To the extent that U.S. media covers Ukraine at all, outlets tend to focus on “what’s good” for “the west” and how “we” can outflank Vladimir Putin. Going overboard with the geopolitical analysis, the media invites wonky policy insiders to discuss how “U.S. interests” should be deployed in the fight to protect Kiev. Since the vast majority of Americans have little or no say over what their government does, it’s unclear who the policy wonks are actually referring to when they casually employ such terminology.
Western European media, meanwhile, tends to provide more thorough coverage of the …read more
Source: The Huffington Post