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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.

In the last ten days my husbands blog, which has been a running comentary on the conflicts in the UKraine over the last twelve months, typically had around 500 viewers a day. A week ago that number went up to 5000 viewers a day.

I agree, the government has been waving shiny objects in our peripheral vision to take our eye away from the goings on in the Ukraine.