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by mschuster91 772 days ago
> no one seems to ask if the problems are equally bad in other countries, especially in non-English speaking countries.

Oh hell yes it is. Everywhere that Russia has interest in has been fraught with serious issues. Germany, Poland, France come to my mind - there have been reports concerning especially the spread of far-right and/or pro-Russian content for years now.

> I live in Norway and it doesn't seem that the problem is so severe here. Or is it simply that English speaking media is more willing to latch on to extreme events and make out that they are the norm?

You guys are simply too small to matter and have been in NATO from the start. In Sweden and Finland though, I had read reports of pro-Russian propaganda problems when they were in the process of joining NATO.

The unifying link is always Russia.

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Is it possible that perhaps people just have differing views on Russia and great power competition than you do? I find the Russia influence story overstated
Sometimes I feel like there's some kind of gaslighting operation going on to make people forget about how much western Europe was in favor of things like NordStream (2). Russia definitely wasn't always the Boogeyman people now seem to claim. A lot of people had to be ok with Russia for things like NordStream to happen.
We're also supposed to pretend that Russia was behind the NordStream sabotage.
> A lot of people had to be ok with Russia for things like NordStream to happen.

And Russia paid a lot of people to think that way, either directly (Schröder) or with extremely cheap gas.

On most countries, the stuff this article is proposing to fight against "for the children" is already illegal to push to anybody.

So, on most countries this proposal would be completely useless.

>far right this

>far right that

>*crickets* far left *crickets*

Man I am glad years ago I watched Yuri Bezmenov's interview with G. Edward Griffin.

> Man I am glad years ago I watched Yuri Bezmenov's interview with G. Edward Griffin.

Do tell. Content? Main ideas? A link? Anything?

Two youtube video IDs, should be the same thing:

/watch?v=s2b-I0Yqisc

/watch?v=9apDnRRSOCk