The officials say Russia intends to use social media to manipulate US public opinion in favor of Trump

  • @Etterra
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    443 months ago

    Just like last time, and the time before that.

    • @Gradually_Adjusting
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      93 months ago

      Putin’s fear of “colour revolutions” and paranoia about America aiming for regime change in Russia have led him to try and do this to us.

      • @[email protected]
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        53 months ago

        Tbh I am coming around to the belief that we should make a concerted but covert-as-possible effort at a Russian regime change. Though it’s absolutely a strategy best left to the history books, in this particular case, they’ve been trying to do it to us (and succeeded in 2016!!!) for decades, and turnabout is fair play.

        • @Gradually_Adjusting
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          53 months ago

          If we don’t want our children dying in the Baltics in fifteen years, we’d better hope the regime changes

          • @[email protected]
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            33 months ago

            Yeah, and I’m saying that since we got so much practice at it in South America when we were drunk on the Cold War, maybe it’s time to put those skills to use against an actual goddamn adversary which is posing a clear and present danger to us and large swaths of the world instead of sCaRy sOCiALiSt eLEctEd GovErNmEntS

            • @Gradually_Adjusting
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              23 months ago

              Success at direct regime change has been, shall we say, elusive. I’d rather we keep making Ukraine and NATO increasingly muscular, while also keep rebuilding the state department. Trump really gutted it, you may recall, which I’m sure was music to Putin’s ears.

        • @Etterra
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          13 months ago

          You’re presuming that they actually have a fair election process in Russia. They do not. No amount of tampering will change the outcome. We could try to rabbel rouse, but our history of doing that in other countries shows a tendency for it to backfire. I mean the CIA has enough trouble getting shit done in South and Central America, much less Russia.