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> Lots of Russian bots here on specific topics. They are fairly easy to spot by the same talking points they've been rehashing for the past 20+ years. When some
by caskstrength 5y ago
> Lots of Russian bots here on specific topics. They are fairly easy to spot by the same talking points they've been rehashing for the past 20+ years. When somebody starts bringing up Bill Clinton and Yugoslavia in 2021, you know who you're talking to. Everyone else has forgotten it.
Yes, I noticed this pattern in most of the discussions about Ukraine. I wouldn't go as far as calling those people "bots" though as they are mostly either misguided westerners who are distrustful of their media and susceptible to influence by RT and similar organizations (I guess the ones who you called "self-whipping over the colonial guilt narrative" in last paragraph of your comment) or just ordinary Russians :)
Besides "Clinton in Yugoslavia", "NATO encircling Russia" you can usually spot them by "CIA and western NGOs destabilized X", "Nazi leader of country X", "russophobia", "russian-speaking people denied X in Y", "Russia was provoked to do X by Y" and similar narratives.