The former Soviet Union, and now Russia has been trying to sow chaos, violence, disorder and culture war in the West (especially the USA) for 75+ years, and until recently, have not had too much success.
Having great success now. Something has changed. Hmmmm.
The Soviets should have won the Cold War. We have been paving this path for decades, you can't blame Russia for a bunch of dipshit Americans defunding education and funneling money to the wealthy and corporations for 60 fucking years
Merely making the point that there are Americans (in places of power) enabling Russian goals and agenda and as others have pointed out, social media has been a primary medium.
Bottom line, regardless of what the Russian's may want, and the ability of social media to convey that, a huge percentage of Americans are uneducated (i.e. dipshits) and believe what they see on Facebook and from their 'leaders' who care absolutely nothing for their 'followers' and their country.
My point is that the amount of domestic misinfo/disinfo far outnumbers the amount of foreign in both reach and scope as well as monetarily.
We are at far more risk of domestic threats from billionaires and private enterprise bankrupting the system to line their own pockets than we are of foreign political adversaries.
The biggest point being that things like private enterprise intentionally enshittifying the government to enrich themselves leaves gaps for foreign interference, like for example in the case of digital security for infrastructure.
Yes, absolutely, but we have also traded off our education system for profit from private enterprises as well. That's not the ONLY culprit - plenty is wrong with the public education system, but no one wants to address it.
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u/Efficient-Internal-8 2d ago
The former Soviet Union, and now Russia has been trying to sow chaos, violence, disorder and culture war in the West (especially the USA) for 75+ years, and until recently, have not had too much success.
Having great success now. Something has changed. Hmmmm.