• Kwozyman@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    They don’t care at all. What they do care is sowing polarization and distrust between western citizens. Russia benefits most when we (the West) are divided on various social issues, which leads to distrust of authorities, election of extremists in office and eventually weak and corrupt states and governments that are easily controlled or countered by Russia.

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      4 months ago

      Well said, it’s great to see people talking about this.

      The Kremlin’s propaganda isn’t “Putin is great” or “stop funding Ukraine.” It’s way more insidious, causing many small fractures in society. Divide and conquer in an age of social media and LLMs.

      People vs police, black vs white, men vs women, young vs old.

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      4 months ago

      it strikes me as odd that the only effective counter to this is to ignore the very real and legitimate harm caused by our hegemony.