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This is a self propaganda piece from a magazine that has been a mixed bag, decent and dumb journalism:" The Economist magazine is getting dumber and dumber: it

This is a self propaganda piece from a magazine that has been a mixed bag, decent and dumb journalism:" The Economist magazine is getting dumber and dumber: it unearthed "evidence" of Russian intervention in Reagan's election "In November 1984 the Kremlin tried to stop Ronald Reagan from being re-elected. As part of its active-measures programme, Moscow promoted the slogan “Reagan Means War!” To discredit him, Russia propagated stories about Reagan’s militaristic adventurism, rising tensions among NATO allies, discrimination against ethnic minorities and corruption." What? That those who opposed Reagan around the world, and those who raised the plight of ethnic and racial minorities in the US were doing the Russian bidding? And what is your evidence of what "Moscow promoted". Let us put it this way, if this is the manner of Russian intervention in US elections, it really is insignificant compared to US heavy-handed intervention in elections in every country in the globe--except Israel (and even there, Clinton tried to help the Labor Party). https://angryarab.blogspot.ae/2016/12/the-economist-magazine-is-getting.html?m=1 https://angryarab.blogspot.ae/2016/12/the-economist-magazine...

simonh 9y ago
No, they did not say that those doing what Russia wanted done were necessarily doing it 'at Russia's bidding'. Yes America does also sometimes try to influence political discourse in other countries too, did TE say otherwise? Finally, are you claiming that Russia does not try to influence politics in other countries? The point is, what methods are used and are they legitimate.
- coldtea 9y ago
  >Yes America does also sometimes try to influence political discourse in other countries too, did TE say otherwise? No, just let theirs readers get to that impression by themselves, by not covering those attempts as much. >Finally, are you claiming that Russia does not try to influence politics in other countries? Not that much, mostly to their neighbors, and not very successfully even there (e.g. how most of their periphery is not suffocating them with NATO allies).

simonh 9y ago

No, they did not say that those doing what Russia wanted done were necessarily doing it 'at Russia's bidding'. Yes America does also sometimes try to influence political discourse in other countries too, did TE say otherwise? Finally, are you claiming that Russia does not try to influence politics in other countries? The point is, what methods are used and are they legitimate.

coldtea 9y ago
>Yes America does also sometimes try to influence political discourse in other countries too, did TE say otherwise? No, just let theirs readers get to that impression by themselves, by not covering those attempts as much. >Finally, are you claiming that Russia does not try to influence politics in other countries? Not that much, mostly to their neighbors, and not very successfully even there (e.g. how most of their periphery is not suffocating them with NATO allies).