| > The division in American weren't created by a foreign entity. The class war simply never ended. You're stating this as if class tensions preclude the existence or effectiveness of foreign information operations. Do you actually believe that to be true? Frankly you are not thinking very hard if you're making definitive monocausal statements about something like "divisiveness" in America. Class tensions hurt us, race tensions hurt us, cultural and historical tensions hurt us, ideological tensions hurt us, and all of these are opportunistically weaponized by people (both foreign and domestic) who benefit from a more fractured America. We're talking about one such entity, which is Russia. > It's another form of naivete to think that average CIA operative is any better at his job than average Joe. This isn't required to be effective at a job, which is why there are hordes of totally average yet gainfully employed people in the world. No one stated anyone is better than the average Joe at anything. |
I'm saying, what could Russians possibly do that Americans aren't already doing to themselves? Look at: The War on drugs, The War on terror, and omnipresent surveillance. These weren't instituted by Russian agents.
And if Russia was that omnipotent, then their "special op in Ukraine" would actually be a few days "special OP".
Whatever paltry ops Russia has is like a drop in the ocean compared to what the US (or other actors) are doing on US.