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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
And yet ask the average man in the street who is not politically engaged, and he has NO IDEA that any of this has been going on. Probably still doesn't have any idea that there are any Cold War tensions at all. Why? Because he's had his gaze firmly (and deliberately) fixed on the Middle East / terrorist attacks. A huge and deliberate political and media game of distraction that has people ranting and raving about Islam and isolated terrorism incidents with low casualty levels, all the while ignorant to the superpowers that are clashing under their very noses. It's terrifying.
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I think the average man in the street is far more aware than you think and more than capable of absorbing what's going on in the world.