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Most ppl think when we talk about Russian influence we mean a few bots and trolls on social media. No. This is HUMAN INTELLIGENCE. Russia recruits humans, pays them to write articles, say certain things, influence politicians, journalists, activists. Russian intel officers and their proxies recruit these people and tell them what to say. In some cases, they literally write articles and some "journalist" put their name on it, but it is written by a Russian intel officer. There is a serious effort by Russia to shift our political debates in Russia's favor. They love to get our own people to repeat their talking points so we think it comes from one of our own, familiar. And it's working. So few people understand the threat.
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Is MTG channeling some of these guys???Putin is exploiting all he can. He realizes, as Trump did, as did southern con men, that tell the evangelical types what they want to hear they'll empty their pockets for you. Blind faith is their forte.
A recent article noted today's republican are like the "American first" pro nazi party in the late 1930s. It was driven as much by homoerotic drool over strong men dictator types (they called the nazis a "virile regime") as it was to attack their domestic enemies (back then it was FDR, whom the business elites felt his "new deal" was the "jew deal" and was turning America communist with jewish backing).
A picture being worth a thousand words... The true picture of the peace-loving Russian self-defense bullshit @nottyboi , @Addict2sex , @oil&gas and the other stooges post are lies fed to the gullible goats.Most ppl think when we talk about Russian influence we mean a few bots and trolls on social media. No. This is HUMAN INTELLIGENCE. Russia recruits humans, pays them to write articles, say certain things, influence politicians, journalists, activists. Russian intel officers and their proxies recruit these people and tell them what to say. In some cases, they literally write articles and some "journalist" put their name on it, but it is written by a Russian intel officer. There is a serious effort by Russia to shift our political debates in Russia's favor. They love to get our own people to repeat their talking points so we think it comes from one of our own, familiar. And it's working. So few people understand the threat.
A picture being worth a thousand words... The true picture of the peace-loving Russian self-defense bullshit @nottyboi , @Addict2sex , @oil&gas and the other stooges post are lies fed to the gullible goats.
Defence. They moved 100 or so miles south to the Leningrad outer burbs to maintain a continuous line with the Germans.Were the Finns fighting Soviet-Russia alongside the Romanian, Italian and
Hungarian soldiers in the Nazi army of cannon fodder from WWII fighting
a war of invasion or war of defense?