That was fascinating!Originally Posted by BalticSailor
Beyond the black & white metaphors for good & evil, it's a reminder that state-sponsored Russian propaganda was 'successful' at manipulating the 'audience' long before the internet or social media even existed. But now that most of the world is watching a geopolitical and humanitarian catastrophe unfold in real time....it's hard to grasp that some people are *only* getting Putin's propaganda, including Russian-Americans who get their 'news' from RT links on Facebook.
edit: as for Putin's "Grand Plan" --- if it was just to exploit and exacerbate the existing divisions in democracies, and make us fight with ourselves about policies and procedures while he's been trying to create a new Russian Empire, he's mostly been successful.
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