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    Re: The US obsession with Russia - A Piece of History | Jeffrey Sachs, Scott Ritter & Ray McGovern Archived Message

    Posted by Dovetail Joint on February 28, 2023, 2:05 pm, in reply to "Re: The US obsession with Russia - A Piece of History | Jeffrey Sachs, Scott Ritter & Ray McGovern"

    The BBC World Service, the world's radio station and financed by the Foreign Office, has a four part series called 'The Creation of Russia'. This series is... tendentious, to say the least. It attempts to paint Russia as an uniquely violent and barbaric state historically. It's biased, massively, in favour of a Tory view of 'history'. Repeatedly it labels Russia as an Empire, one that's expanded continually over the last few centuries. And, as, apparently, all the other old European empires have faded away into 'history', Russia's 'empire' should too! All this is highly debatable, this framing reference.

    What characterized the European empires and puts them on another level to Russia, in another category, I'd argue, was that they all were vast, global, overseas empires, linked to economic expansion and exploitation.

    In contrast there will never be a BBC series that examines the expansion of the United States Empire across North America and beyond. That perspective is not-thinkable in BBC-think. Even though, I've heard them on other occasions refer to the Spanish Empire, the Portuguese Empire, the French Empire in relation to the same geographical area now dominated by the American Empire.

    Seemingly in BBC-think, they've swallowed the central dogma of US nationalism, that the United States was never, and still isn't, an empire; despite all the overwhelming evidence that proves the opposite!

    Perhaps I should complain about the inherent bias in the entire series?

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