I honestly think that accepting this fact, along with the fact that I'll never really get a full understanding of another country's politics and conflicts, is what helped me most in combating all the imperial propaganda around me.
This idea has been really pushed on me even more in my social work studies, that I don't know what's best for someone else and it's not my job to save them, and I've been extrapolating it more into my politics and it has been idk freeing i guess?
I don't know if this is the right place to post this but it's kinda about politics so idk.
Not to widen the scope too much but I struggle with what you describe a lot. Not with the propaganda (I just do the usual thing where I assume America is at fault and it's right like 90 percent of the time), but with the reality of knowing so little about the world outside my own life. I've traveled a lot in my life but I've still never been able to escape the sense that I am just trying desperately to find patterns in the ocean of information that is the world. It makes the ground under all my convictions about geopolitics feel that much shakier. Real :lt-dbyf-dubois: mood
Of course then I hear unhinged hogs talk about China for 5 minutes and I go back to being the World Understander again, and all is well.