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Western NGOs are not even remotely comparable to the propaganda operations the US and Europe are dealing with at the moment. This faulty comparison is itself a
by zapita 7y ago
Western NGOs are not even remotely comparable to the propaganda operations the US and Europe are dealing with at the moment. This faulty comparison is itself a common talking point of Russian and Chinese propaganda.
A better comparison would be US operations against the communist bloc during the Cold War. However... The US intelligence community has spent the last 25 years focusing on the Middle East. The previous generation of spies and counter-spies have mostly retired, and those who are still active haven't worried about the KGB in a long time. Meanwhile, the KGB has never gone away, and has been obsessed with the US the whole time. And now the former head of the KGB/FSB runs Russia... What we are dealing with is the same KGB playbook, with some 21st century upgrade. Russia knows US citizens better than they know themselves, which is how they managed to brainwash 1/3d of our population through domestic assets like Manafort, Barr, Mcconnell and of course the Trumps. It's no surprise that the are running circles around us at the moment. Hopefully our institutional immune system will kick in and we will adapt before the rot sets in too deep.
- protomolecule 7y agoImmune system like Joseph McCarthy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
- zapita 7y agoNo. Not at all like Joseph McCarthy.
- protomolecule 7y agoIs it? You wrote: "which is how they managed to brainwash 1/3d of our population", do you really think that over 100 million people you disagree with are brainwashed by a foreign power? In Russian political discourse nowadays liberals are all too often accused of being on American embassy's payroll. You want this kind of talk in the US when opponents are labeled as foreign government shills?
- pjc50 7y agoSort of. But because he didn't care about false positives he was the autoimmune disease of America.
- roenxi 7y ago> Western NGOs are not even remotely comparable I'm not going to argue that point, but the west does have Hollywood. I don't know of a counter-force to that sort of culture-export engine. It is a powerful piece in the propaganda picture.
- aaron695 7y agoAmerica's advertising industry is the most powerful propaganda machine in the world. And it specialises in fooling Americans.