Hm... Could imagine something like that. Americans have barely an idea about European structures and ongoings, you could probably tell them any tale, about some country which doesn't belong to the famous Western ones they maybe heard about here or there, and they'd be able to believe it. The Europeans you can do this with do, see the Ukraine conflict and the constant repeating of "the annexion of Krim" in media without ever mentioning in between "until the '54 it was part of Russia, Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine, probably for the easier administration of the peninsula". Or the economical disaster in Greece. You got it pretty easily hammered into normal German heads that "Greeks are lazy", the mantra of the EU to cover up an imperial sell-out. If it's about territory that's barely ever the center of attention, I think, one can do this pretty easily. Only few percents of people go and do some research like "I wanna know his exactly"; part of them doesn't do because they like it easy, part of them lacks the brains to grasp it, part of them also does it because they don't have the time for it, besides all the fucking working more hours than the contract says.
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Americans have barely an idea about European structures and ongoings, you could probably tell them any tale, about some country which doesn't belong to the famous Western ones they maybe heard about here or there, and they'd be able to believe it.
The Europeans you can do this with do, see the Ukraine conflict and the constant repeating of "the annexion of Krim" in media without ever mentioning in between "until the '54 it was part of Russia, Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine, probably for the easier administration of the peninsula".
Or the economical disaster in Greece. You got it pretty easily hammered into normal German heads that "Greeks are lazy", the mantra of the EU to cover up an imperial sell-out.
If it's about territory that's barely ever the center of attention, I think, one can do this pretty easily. Only few percents of people go and do some research like "I wanna know his exactly"; part of them doesn't do because they like it easy, part of them lacks the brains to grasp it, part of them also does it because they don't have the time for it, besides all the fucking working more hours than the contract says.