Propaganda.

When you begin to loose trust with a partner, a colleague at work, your police force, the whole political structure as reported by the media it leaves you with a feeling of dismemberment with no substantial support structure in which to place your emotional footprint.
Listening to the unashamed political attack on the West from RT, the Russian external TV station and match it with the mud slinging which comes from the West towards Russia, be it their troops in the Ukraine or the criticism of their domestic and international posture, one is caught wondering, "who is right".
NATO is a useful foil for America to stand behind but make no mistake NATO is an American project and what ever NATO does it has to obtain American Approval first.
It's interesting that RT cobbles together many dissident voices. Serving University professors, people recently retired from positions in the US Government, and many freelance commentators but it is always one way traffic. There is never a balanced viewpoint from a Russian dissident or an ex employee of the Russian State, not even an academic to question their propaganda.
So for all its connivance with the dark forces in politics and big business, the Americans are able to accommodate the people who disagree with virtually everything they stand for, as part of the trade off for having a so called democratic system. Freedom of speech, like the freedom to carry weapons is supposed to carry with it a measure of responsibility and usually it works. But when it doesn't the pressure to react negatively is strong and it's this tension of believing in your principles whilst knowing that your enemy may use your leniency against you which creates the problem.
Listening to well organised propaganda, not the sort of storytelling which is non factual but pulling together the threads of isolated incidents and projected them as the norm, is the work of a good propagandist.
On the other-side of the coin, many of these incidents go unreported in our own news media either through editorial design or just that their singular impact is deemed not worthy of a "story" in a 'time critical' news cast.
By spreding your source material you obtain a closer representation of what interests you. We need to look under all the stones, even the ones we would rather not know about.