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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16162455

How Russia is Influencing US Voters. Russian Intelligence Document "Guerrilla Media Campaign in the US" [Translated] Page 5

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https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/exhibits_9a_and_9b.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The West should just adopt the same tactics for Russian social media channels (VK, Telegram, etc), regular civilian groups if the state does not want to resort to it. Feed Russia some of their own medicine.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

I have no doubt that the USA has fingers in the pie of public sentiments elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You should look up regime change and color revolution. The US openly speaks about subverting and supplanting democratic governments in other countries if they don't align with their foreign policy goals. And they have done it many times.

What Russia is doing is despicable but "they learned it from watching US".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Color revolution = "What do you mean those countries don't want to be friends of Russia? Woke culture is out of control: you run a few thousand people over with tanks and they take it personally!"

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish. But the republicans would never.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hope you're aware the West isn't just the US (or worse, that republicans are in control of the entire West), and neither are the information related to this leak just about the US.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am, I’m Swiss.

But the fact is by far the most active, successful and offensive western intelligence agencies are in the United States.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You don't need highly skilled intelligence officers to pour disinformation into social media. The largest hurdle is the language barrier but aside from that it would be doable by people like you and me. The last decade or so really showed how easy it actually is, because there's just enough gullible useful idiots who buy into this shit, helping to spread it even further.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What I mean more by this is that european intelligence agencies tend to have:

  1. far stricter limits about what they are allowed to so
  2. far less funding
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hence why I suggested private groups. We've seen it successfully in Germany from the other side with groups like Reconquista Germanica, which completely changed German comment sections to the worse since the refugee crisis. People need to organize and pool their knowledge into their own networks to destabilize Russia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’d love to read more about that if you know a source :)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, fascists are in control of white supremacy (aka "the west"). It's only the nationalist branding that changes.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“The West” would have to start giving a fuck what goes on in who-gives-a-fuck-istan to have that happen. The warfare is asymmetric because only one side has an open society anyone else is actually interested in. No one in “The West” outside of the CIA ever thinks about Russia when they aren’t putting their dick in the punchbowl.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No one in “The West” outside of the CIA ever thinks about Russia when they aren’t putting their dick in the punchbowl.

They're literally bathing in the punch bowl for at least a decade+ now. Surely there's people who do give a fuck. I do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah sorry I missed all the Russian TV, music, electronics, art and culture everyone enjoys in the west. 😂