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by YZF 821 days ago
There are a lot of people in the west that are aligned with the Kremlin talking points. It's sort of a continuation of the post-truth society we live in. It's like people that think Biden isn't president or some other random stuff. Social media and traditional media letting people create their own reality. Reminds me of visiting the US circa 2018 IIRC and flipping my TV between CNN and Fox News.

Interesting enough wasn't it President Obama who started reducing the US involvement and taking more of a home first policy vs. the previous Republicans that viewed the US as the World's Policeman? IMO leaving both the US and the world in a much worse situation. The attacks against Obama also paved the roads to some of the techniques we see used today across the board. I don't know if this is just my impression but it seemed that was an inflection point, along with many other factors, in creating what are essentially fake realities for different people.