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I think Europe's adversaries are the real winners.

• ortusdux 4y ago
  It's disturbing how cheap it is to destabilize another country these days.
  • cjbgkagh 4y ago
    It is always cheaper to damage something than to build it.
  • red-iron-pine 4y ago
    propaganda doesn't work if you create new, BS reasons from scratch. you gotta have an actual lever or two, something that you can latch on and hype up. you amplify real issues, not spawn fake ones. this is very effective, esp. in the US, because we've ignored huge systemic problems across multiple demographics for decades. there are a lot of issues to hammer. less so in Europe, but there are still real issues to hammer. social media made it far easier to track and chart these issues and how people respond to them -- in real-time. and since most are publicly traded companies, they have no incentive to actually make things better -- they gotta keep that stock price up.
• ttul 4y ago
  On the other hand, I think Brexit taught all the other euro countries that leaving is perilous and best avoided. Putin may have scored a Pyrrhic victory here.
  • tialaramex 4y ago
    Yes, Several other EU countries had right (in some cases very far right) nationalist political groups which worked with Nigel Farage's UKIP in the EU's parliament, on and off, and saw Brexit as a great way to show their people what was possible... right up until it became apparent that "what was possible" was economically destructive and suddenly that wasn't on their agenda any more.