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traitorsgalore

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Thu Feb 8, 2024, 04:57 PM Feb 2024

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If anyone else ... mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author traitorsgalore Feb 2024 #3
Because too many "Just us" deciding cases. GreenWave Feb 2024 #5
If he's doing it openly in public, it's not espionage. TwilightZone Feb 2024 #2
You don't seem to have a firm grasp on what "espionage" is EX500rider Feb 2024 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author traitorsgalore Feb 2024 #6
Propaganda & espionage are different things EX500rider Feb 2024 #7
i agree samsingh Feb 2024 #8

mahatmakanejeeves

(69,851 posts)
1. If anyone else ...
Thu Feb 8, 2024, 04:59 PM
Feb 2024

Last edited Thu Feb 8, 2024, 06:01 PM - Edit history (1)

If anyone else with 10s of millions of internet followers went to Russia and interviewed Putin with the sole purpose of spreading Russian misinformation about the U.S. in the U.S., what would happen to them?

Nothing. Thank you for helping to clarify that.

Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #1)

GreenWave

(12,641 posts)
5. Because too many "Just us" deciding cases.
Thu Feb 8, 2024, 05:08 PM
Feb 2024

TwilightZone

(28,836 posts)
2. If he's doing it openly in public, it's not espionage.
Thu Feb 8, 2024, 05:02 PM
Feb 2024

This isn't much different than the stuff he posts on his website. All he's done is confirm that he's fine being used as a tool by Russia and its media.

EX500rider

(12,583 posts)
4. You don't seem to have a firm grasp on what "espionage" is
Thu Feb 8, 2024, 05:06 PM
Feb 2024
The US defines espionage towards itself as "the act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defence with an intent, or reason to believe, that the information may be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation"

Response to EX500rider (Reply #4)

EX500rider

(12,583 posts)
7. Propaganda & espionage are different things
Thu Feb 8, 2024, 05:17 PM
Feb 2024

samsingh

(18,426 posts)
8. i agree
Thu Feb 8, 2024, 05:17 PM
Feb 2024
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