Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPA6TPL-Gp0

This really isn’t serious.

I didn’t even listen to the whole video. 

So other example: Rabies has recently returned to my country and it is the first time maybe since the early 1970’s that children started dying from rabies once again. The UK is now warning it’s citizens who want to come to Turkey that there are heard of street dogs who are erring unattended in almost all villages and cities of my country. And this is true. No one is collecting and/or euthanizing street dogs anymore. They just let them live. And today everyone knows at least 5-10 people who have been bitten or seriously attacked by those animals and we are not some India or Africa like country. There was no such thing when I was in college (in the 2000’s). It was unthinkable.

So what happened?

- Social media happened. There are some people / organizations who collect money to “donate” dog-food + dog cabins to those poor herds of street dogs. Many of them are seen with fancy cars living in fancy neighborhoods etc. and the weak government is unable to undertake any legal action against those people who run “animal-rights organisations”.

And what made this possible is again: Social media. You can now browse on twitter with very nice people who are “helping the poor animals” giving them food, petting them touching them, hugging them (I’m talking of street dog with no owners). And they have managed to create a social movement so even government authorities and political parties are afraid to say anything about the collection and elimination by euthanasia of these “poor animal”. You can’t say that anywhere in social media in Turkey at the moment. You cannot say “I want these dogs (and cats) to be taken out of the street in order to be killed by euthanasia”. You can’t even begin to say anything like that. If you do social media trolls will attack you from every front. You will have to talk to absolute sophists and hypocrites and you will have to answer to arguments like “Should we also kill street people?” or “Streets are the natural habitat of street dogs” etc. And religion is another aspect because the social media based propaganda is claiming that “We must love street dogs for love of God” (and all of this is true)

So again. Warning: It’s all over the place. It’s all over the world. Some people have learned to use the internet (which started in the 90’s as a ways of communicating all sorts of information, all of the time, to all parts of the world, without any limitation) as a way of promoting their own interest based or twisted political agendas. And that’s what Russia is trying to do everywhere in the world.  

But I still think that this is only as powerful as their military equipment dating from the 80’s: I will only work on weak opponents.

But still: caution, caution, caution