That region is kind of a big deal at the moment. So even if I wasn’t taught it in HS or learned from the history channel, I’d recognize it now just due to watching and reading about tensions. But yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if a majority of Americans couldn’t tell you what country that is.
They also recently deployed a bunch of K2 tanks right there on the border of kaliningrad.
“Watching and reading about tensions” means being far more informed on the details of current events than the vast majority of Americans care to bother with. Source: am American
That region is kind of a big deal at the moment. So even if I wasn’t taught it in HS or learned from the history channel, I’d recognize it now just due to watching and reading about tensions. But yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if a majority of Americans couldn’t tell you what country that is.
They also recently deployed a bunch of K2 tanks right there on the border of kaliningrad.
“Watching and reading about tensions” means being far more informed on the details of current events than the vast majority of Americans care to bother with. Source: am American
Unfortunately that’s true. People here act like everything revolves around the US and are blissfully unaware of anything outside of their bubble.