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Farage bodyguards funded by Russians (Original Post) Turbineguy May 2019 OP
does Putin ever have time to run his own country JI7 May 2019 #1
An excellent point. Turbineguy May 2019 #2
Perhaps. Igel May 2019 #3
Shocking, indeed. dalton99a May 2019 #4
Russian white men with too much excess money. A thing that is not good. applegrove May 2019 #5

Igel

(35,300 posts)
3. Perhaps.
Thu May 30, 2019, 09:24 PM
May 2019

Or he's trolling.

Either way, what does it accomplish?

Greater rifting and polarization. A key Russian desideratum.

RT's good for two things.

1) Showing how trustworthy RT is in all things, and to be implicitly trusted.

2) Including untrustworthy, highly spun and often misleading or discouraging disinformation so as to sow discord and drive wedges to split society.

It's good for a third thing, but it's meta: Showing what is important to the Russian government and what the Russians want Joe Sixpack in the west to think. Kremlinology, in other words, with the kicker that like Pravda and Izvestiya of old, often what gets included in news reports say more than the writers and presenters realize.

applegrove

(118,642 posts)
5. Russian white men with too much excess money. A thing that is not good.
Thu May 30, 2019, 09:49 PM
May 2019

When the British white men had too much money they built slavery and colonialism. I think there is a pattern to behold.

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