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The United States on Friday released a U.S. intelligence assessment sent to more than 100 countries that found Moscow is using spies, social media and Russian state-run media to erode public faith in the integrity of democratic elections worldwide.
“This is a global phenomenon,” said the assessment. “Our information indicates that senior Russian government officials, including the Kremlin, see value in this type of influence operation and perceive it to be effective.”
A senior State Department official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, said that Russia was encouraged to intensify its election influence operations by its success in amplifying disinformation about the 2020 U.S. election and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yeah, only we can do that! Like we did, since the 20th century:
Not to mention:
That time we meddled with Ukraine’s elections The general plan to stop democratic elections in Latin America
The Banana Republics Where we got so off scot free, there’s a chain of stores named after it. It’s like if Iraq had a chain of stores called 9/11 Appeal. The Consistent and non-stop murdering of Filipinos who wanted freedom from Spain and America
And this isn’t even getting into pre-1990’s with Hawaii and the mass genocide of Native Americans, or the internal fucking with elections like COINTELPRO murdering Black Panthers and MLK, and the CIA secretly using network stations and the internet to spread propaganda.
But it’s good when we do it, so that makes it okay. Please don’t ask use to apologize or forgive debts. We can’t even keep a promise with any native american tribes, let alone foreign nations.
Still just whataboutism. Both things can be bad.
Whataboutism is the oldest trick in the troll’s handbook. It’s so obvious.
Correct, both are bad. It’s just the pot calling the kettle black.
That doesn’t change the fact that the report is true.
Any more recent or even current examples?
No, we do not have information on what the CIA is currently doing, aside from “bad shit”. For some reason, they aren’t telling us in advance.
I don’t know about you, but I think the Afghan invasion we pulled out of in 2021 is a current example.
How about the time our government tried to coup Bolivia in 2020? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/18/silence-us-backed-coup-evo-morales-bolivia-american-states
And let’s not forget our current backing of Israel bombing civilians of the Gaza strip and Palestine, no matter who’s in charge of the oval office.
Imagine being so drunk on bullshit that you think the Afghanistan invasion was
A) CIA-led
B) a bad idea
Yes, invading countries is bad. I guess that’s a hot take now.
That’s kind of an insane take, yes.
I only clicked one link but I strongly support shit like this so idk what your problem is
Providing aid to those fighting communism is always a good thing
Yeah and that’s same idea as Russia invading Eastern Europe to stomp on anything they don’t want. “Invading to aid in my ideology is good and legal, invading for anything else is bad and a war crime.”
America invading to stop communism is bad, the soviets invading to stop capitalism is bad.
No invading to stop communism is good.
South Korea existing is a good thing.
This is the most thorough comment I’ve seen in quite sometime. Even broke out the East Timor. Saved.