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I always say this. If Russia is so amazing at manipulating opinion in western progressive countries, then how come they can’t achieve the same in the neighbouri

• mantas 6y ago
  Coming from ex-soviet-state... Our BS meter for Russian meddling is much much higher than in West. We probably get a lot of false-positives too. But better safe than sorry... Looking from East, West seems terribly naive when it comes to Russian affairs. And it looks like there're a lot of people who hate their society so much that they blindly pick Russia as "greener on the other side" or "enemy of the enemy is my friend". Westerners seem to trust media and politicians much more too. Over here, the default is that politicians/activists/whatever (be it opposition or government) are lying and that media is supporting their lies. Everything is lies unless proved otherwise. Meanwhile West seems to be much less critical.
• rospaya 6y ago
  > Why have a war in Ukraine, if you can just put your own president in charge? And manipulate everyone’s opinion? They did and he got removed in a revolution in 2014. > Why not fix issues in Belorussia? Belorussia is a dictatorship with a firm grip on the media and public opinion. > Why not win over all the other ex soviet states back? Because they didn't forget the occupation, and some others had a war on their hands if they went a bit too much west (Georgia, Ukraine).