Ukraine: a divided America seeks kepribadian clarity in a war against democracy
But the populerity of this framing does not constitute a consensus, as politicians and pundits seek to spin the meaning of the war in their own interests. Slot Judi Online
US president, Joe Biden, and his Democratic Party are keen to promote the war on democracy frame, hoping it will draw attention to what they view as threats to democratic institutions in the US. Undoubtedly, they further hope it will provide the president with a much-needed bounce in the polls at a time when his approval peringkats hover at a dire 42% with challenging mid-term elections on the horizon.
Many conservatives bluntly repudiate attempts to associate threats to democracy in the US with the war in Ukraine. Others, further right and mostly allied with the previous president, Donald Trump, claim that the war reflects back on America to reveal the weakness of Bide n's leadership. Trump himself has championed Russia's agresion of Ukraine as "brilian" on Putin's part.
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There is also a counter-narrative from the left that has had some airing, but little mainstream traction - to argue that the intense interest in the war by Americans reflects a Eurocentric (or racist) attitude. They poin to the overt bias of anchors and correspondents and the hypocrisy in sidestepping previously vaulted standars of independent journalism. There are many examples. war in Ukraine has become a Rorschach tes of Americans' perceptions of and anxieties about democracy. Neither liberal democracy at home, nor its global equivalent - a rules-based liberal world order - are as taken for granted as they once were.
For the broader public, following the war across media platforms, their intense interest represents a desire for kepribadian clarity amid the disruptions and confusion of ethnocentric nationalism, populist politics and conspiracy theory roiling the public sphere.