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Russia paid far-right politicians in 5 countries to plant propaganda
- MilnerRoute 2y agoKey quote from the Washington Post: "The organization was being used to funnel hundreds of thousands of euros — up to 1 million a month — to dozens of far-right politicians in more than five countries to plant Kremlin propaganda in Western media that would sow division in Europe and bolster the position of pro-Russian candidates in this week’s European Parliament elections.”
- keernan 2y agoThere are lots of strongly pro-Russian politicians and members of the media in the United States too. If Putin is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to the far right in Europe, why in the world would anyone believe the same isn't happening in the United States?
- ttyprintk 2y agoAnd if they’re well-informed, then they should negotiate their rates, and vice versa.
- dekhn 2y agoI'm fairly certain Marjorie Taylor Greene receives money from Russia (probably through indirect sources).
- hsyehbeidhh 2y ago[dead]
- mouse_ 2y agoThe United States also has a way of putting their friends in leadership positions globally.
- xenospn 2y agoIt’s quite obvious, really.
- wumeow 2y agohttps://archive.ph/Rd5EA https://archive.ph/Rd5EA Probably something similar happening in the US
- goatsneez 2y agoWhy do people still believe the Russia narrative? I mean, virtually every single major Russian narrative of influence over US or EU politics, media sphere, or whatever is proven by western investigative journalist wrong (of cause with convenient delay). Eg, the Biden laptop, the hacking of nuclear facilities, and list goes on and on. We like to over-estimate the capability of Rus in this sphere. After all, the unparalleled, fine-tuned and omni present propaganda machine is in the US, self-declared, psy-ops through gaming industry, music, and movies, etc. In summary, are there state actors influencing each other's population: Yes. Does Russia somehow hold the super-powers in this domain: No, not by any stretch of imagination. Do they spent more money on foreign interference than US +EU, not by orders of magnitude. But the function of a boogeyman is just as important, if not more, than an accurate model of the world (I concur).
- blashyrk 2y agoPeople will omit applying any amount of critical thinking if they agree with the basic premise/contents of something they read. That's how we have Schrödinger's Russia, one that keeps fumbling every day and loses 1000+ soldiers a day, whose soldiers have run out of basic equipment and are fighting with shovels (no, I'm not joking https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64855760 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64855760), all the while being absolutely crippled by sanctions. Truly a laughing stock, right? Yet they are also somehow about to launch a full-scale invasion of entire Europe, while currently _undermining democracy_ (my favorite phrase) in the entire Western sphere.
- darthrupert 2y agoOverestimate? They got Trump and they got brexit and who knows what else they have achieved. We are seriously underestimating them.