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> to toppling hostile regimes and creating chaos From a real world perspective you're being awfully cavalier with the lives of people who are just as much vict
by akira2501 2y ago
> to toppling hostile regimes and creating chaos
From a real world perspective you're being awfully cavalier with the lives of people who are just as much victims of their own government as you perceive yourself to be.
> measure disinfo operations in the US
Yet you take no stock of the same operations the US already runs in other parts of the world. What a petty short term victory you're aiming for.
- ericb 2y ago> Yet you take no stock of the same operations the US already runs in other parts of the world. What a petty short term victory you're aiming for. Not at all. When the incentive becomes not to do it, then it will stop. > Yet you take no stock of the same operations the US already runs in other parts of the world. Nowhere did I advocate for doing so, or continuing to do so. In general, the US has followed a reckless know-it-all policy of regime change that has backfired many more times than it has ever worked, and is overall a net negative even for the US. This is different--it is a strategic public deterrent. It isn't directly goal oriented, only deterrence oriented, and any country will have a simple way to stop it at any time--stop putting disinfo into the US infosphere. And in fact, this works better if the US stops doing these things for any other purpose.