I consider myself lucky to be a citizen of the US, but I recognize the propaganda and lies. It seems like the media in the US switched sometime in the late 80s to the early 90s from, perhaps slanted, but factual news coverage to sensationalist entertainment and we started down a very devisive path. Now my country is split into two main factions along with a few outliers. It's sad.
I don't trust Russia at all, but that might be simply because I'm a child of the cold war. That being said I don't feel trust when I think of Russia. Syria is another story, I wish I could travel back in time before this crisis happened and talk with people, but they would probably be distrustful towards me rather than candid.
I don't think that there is any real solution to the worlds problems in general, and even individual conflicts seem to have too many sides for any outsider to have any meaningful opinion.
I wish I was more upbeat, but there are things happening in my country which are so concerning that I don't sleep more than a few hours per night.