I agree with you and I liked the clips.
I also think there is a major problem in the UK and the US and fast spreading to EU countries and that is to do with education, and I don't mean in a snobbish or elitist sense, I mean that in the last 50 years or so "progressive education" or "no education" has fallen in and out of fashion in the UK and the US meaning that large chunks of the population have, in relation to geopolitics, quite literally not learned anything about 20th c and 21st c history across the globe and have not learned about politics, world affairs or or history before that, nor about different political systems, or geography, or cultures, or about governance issues in general. This applies to some people going into politics as well, British ministers are sometimes accused of ignorance, and politicians in the UK themselves have commented that they have no leeway when it comes to foreign policy, everything is decided by intelligence and the foreign office. And when it comes to other areas there are committees in place which pretty much direct domestic policy too. And it seems that the press is largely directed by this.
Most of the population won't know root causes of conflicts, not because they aren't interested but because it wasn't covered as part of their education.