Yeah, I don't know how the world looked to westerners and much more experienced people at that time in 2016. But for me in Lithuania all I knew at that time was that my life had been improving continuously since 1990 since Lithuania started getting closer to the west, I did not care what political systems were there abroad, had no clue how banks operated, had no clue what political parties existed in USA, and would not have listened to anybody who had any opinion other than Lithuanian most pro-western polititians. So basically, for me nothing was broken, banks were fantastic, they were a big part of what took the russian commies away from me. So I would never have listened to anything like bitcoin that wanted to fix what wasn't broken for me, especially when that was my savior as I thought then.
That said, I had heard then that there were opinions that 9/11 was organised by US gov., and I did not discard the possibility, but I did not care. Because I thought that if they did it, then it had to be done, because they "are the good guys", and know what needs to be done, because it seemed obvious to me that they ensure good life to all the freedom and truth loving people around the world.
That does not mean I was brainwashed. All that was totally logical based on the tangible world that I had experienced until then. For good reasons that paid back to me and everyone deserving around me, I just hated russians and commies that much and loved the west that much. Little did I know rhat this same west created the commies in the first place, and all the illnesses and all that. The only way at that time to convince me otherwise was to explain how they tricked russians 100 years ago, how they confiscated gold from their own people, explain not to me but to my grandparents who had past away by then, so that they would explain to me how they unknowingly fooled me with the lies they believed themselves. I would not have listened to anyone else. The only other way was for the west to become commies oppressors themselves. Which they successfully did with anti-Trump stance and later covid, and sure enough it convinced me pretty well 😎.
So that is the kind of people you are dealing with in the east and center. But those that were not converted by covid are hopeless. I am fine to write them off.
