Wow, did I get flamed in Europe! Can anybody explain why?

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Friday December 28, 2007 · 6:11 PM PST

2007/12/28 · 18:11

I'm in a bit of shock. Yesterday, I posted a diary on inefficiencies and wastefulness in the Russian energy sector as reported in a Spanish newspaper article. I added a few ideas of my own on the Russian government's world view and crossposted it on Daily Kos and the European Tribune. The European Tribune version and comments here.

The responses that I got on DK were totally different from the ones that I got on ET. Here on Kos, the response was along the lines of "Wow, that's an important problem and it's good to know about it."

On ET the response was along the lines of "Why are you picking on an impoverished country like Russia and, by the way Bush, is a dick." Shoot, I even got called a "Cold-War-style war monger"! I kid you not.

So, the question that I want to ask here on Kos is: What do you folks think explains the different reaction? Has Bush pissed people off so badly around the world that you can't criticize anybody unless you set aside a paragraph or two to criticize the US as well? Or has Russia once again become a sacred cow for some people that can't be criticized at all? Or is there just something about European sensitivities that I don't understand? Mind you I lived in Spain for three years and in the old USSR for one. Plus I've been there for shorter visits a couple of dozen times. I thought I understood how Europeans see things.

So, here's my request to my fellow Kossacks. Follow this link to read the diary and comments on DK and this one to read the same diary, but very different comments, on ET.

Then come back here and post any comments and ideas you might have that explain the widely varying response that the same diary got on two continents.

Thanks. I'm really looking forward to what everyone has to say.

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Why did I get flamed?

Everybody hates Americans now and that blinds them to other realities.

You just ran into the worlds last remaining Stalinists. Don't worry about it.

For reasons related to why Benzir Bhutto was assasinated.

Because George W. Bush has made heroes out of our advesaries.

Because Europeans are a bunch of wusses with chips on their shoulders.

Because they're right and you are a Cold-War-style war monger

Other

Don't know.

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Why did I get flamed?

Everybody hates Americans now and that blinds them to other realities.

64 votes

You just ran into the worlds last remaining Stalinists. Don't worry about it.

1%

2 votes

For reasons related to why Benzir Bhutto was assasinated.

1%

1 vote

Because George W. Bush has made heroes out of our advesaries.

32 votes

Because Europeans are a bunch of wusses with chips on their shoulders.

5%

7 votes

Because they're right and you are a Cold-War-style war monger

15 votes

Other

7%

10 votes

Don't know.

4%

5 votes

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