[ahartmetz]

As a strong emotion, creating fear is an effective means to an end, but rarely/never an ultimate goal. If you really want to understand what's going on, don't stop at "they just want to scare me".

As far as the news are concerned, they just want viewers / advertising customers / money in most cases.

[skwee357]

I doubt you can "really understand" what's going on without you being directly involved in said conflict, either as a tool for executing a particular agenda, or as a decision maker.

[ahartmetz]

Sure, you can't understand everything, but it's not like you can't understand anything.