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Originally Posted by kyp275
Not exactly, or are you seriously suggesting things like the details behind trade/policy negotiations, calls between various country’s leaders/senior officials along with the literal mountain piles of subsequent bureaucratic proceedings all be made public and disseminated, thus making said negotiations pretty much impossible in the first place?
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My point here's simply that the governments like to paint themselves in a positive light while doing the opposite for their enemies, with PR slogans like Freedom. They paint an idealistic picture for the public instead of a realist one. In general, the public's not educated on foreign politics, not even at introductory level.
It's like they want to preach "Justice" and stuff to the public for domestic stability, but since you need a different mindset of foreign politics, they shy away from educating the public about it.
Take ww1 for example, the German leaders really wanted war because they thought if they don't do something, Russia would overtake them. But what they told public was simply that they were allied with Austria, therefore, they had to get involved to defend Austria.