Good call. On the European side, these people who have bought into such propaganda are going to sooner or later have to realize that you cannot embrace the Russians and the Chinese (as the EU left have done) and live on non-stop criticisms of America without being thought of as a total joke. This is the reason #1 IMO why Europe in general has a very low influence on US decision-making at the moment. Of course the US is not perfect, but we are supposed to believe Russia and China are somehow moralistically better?
No of course not. The problem is, concerning human rights, that image of Russia is probably much better than the contempoary image of the US in mainstream Europe. I do not speak about the realities I speak about the "images". The European left doesn't care about Putins little genocide in Chechenya but they care about Gitmo. This is the schizophrenia we are dealing with.