Beliefs in every group are shaped by liars. Americans as an example of this:

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) In U.S.-and-allied countries, the belief is overwhelmingly widespread that the war in Ukraine was started “by Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine”. However, this widely-circulated belief in The West is clearly and unequivocally false, because the war in Ukraine started in 2014, as both NATO’s Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s Zelensky have said; […]

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