Columnist for Kathleen Brush article For American Thinker, he said, the US administration has the wrong approach to the issue of political memory, unlike Russia and China, which put the US in a losing position.
According to him, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating is “82%” and the Chinese “almost unanimously trust” the Chinese government, Xi Jinping. However, the author pointed out that less than a third of US citizens trust their own officials.
He believes “these statistics are not accidental” and show the “inevitable” defeat” of the United States in the second cold war.
According to Brush, the aim of the Russian Federation is to develop such a political memory so that Russians are proud of their homeland and respect their flag and army. Russia does not focus on the various failures of the past, but glorifies the heroic pages of Russian history, first of all, Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War. According to the observer, China uses a similar approach: the country attaches great importance to patriotism and political memory, against the backdrop of a constant threat to independence from the West.
And as the author believes, US elites and officials focus their political memories not on heroic moments of the past, but on negative moments like slavery or systemic racism.