- “$8 a month will make a troll farm too expensive to run” - Did anyone see how many millions Russia spent in fb ads during elections? $8 to reach more people is basically free - $1M would only afford a measly 125,000 verified troll accounts a month! 
 
- It’s fun to watch one propaganda fight the other 
- I’m shocked, shocked! 
- quelle surprise! 
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- BBC has no business teaching others about false and misleading claims about the NATO-Russia war. - Russia isn’t at war with NATO and the proof of that is that Russia still exists as a sovereign nation. - They are not a US peer, much less a threat to NATO. - Russia is the most nuclear armed country on earth with the most advanced and difficult to intercept hypersonic missiles on earth. They’re a threat to anyone. - Russia will never use a nuclear missile because it would be a death sentence for them. - Russia’s military is not a threat to the US in any way. They showed how corrupt and poorly-managed they are in the Ukraine invasion. - Everyone believed Russia’s disinformation about their competence, but those lies fell apart the moment their military was put to the test. - The only significant global worry about Russia is that the state fails, they balkanize, and their poorly-secured WMDs make it into the hands of rogue actors. - deleted by creator - Things have changed a lot since then. For instance, their own military contractors attacked their forces and invaded their mainland. - You know, like a competent army does. - Edit: also mearhsheimer’s premise is deeply flawed and his reasoning only gets worse from there. I am shocked beyond belief that a political realist would assume Russia sees the Ukrainian conflict as an existential threat, or that Ukraine sees the destruction of Russia as a war goal. - This war began as a bullying landgrab and has turned into a shit show because Russia thought they had another Georgia on their hands. 
- Ukraine’s military was pathetic around 2014, they were training militia with sticks and airsoft guns and the rest of the actual military arsenal was old soviet shite. I wouldn’t consider them well equipped until a few months ago when most of the western military aid arrived. - How are they losing the war if they have already taken most of Bakhmut back and are pushing decently on most fronts of the war against a military power that dwarfs it in manpower and supposedly in tech. - Russia is already losing territory they took during this war and in some parts is about to lose territory it gained during the 2014 offensive that they definitely were not a part of wink wink. 
 
 
 
 
- As opposed to… Listening to random people on twitter? - BBC is one of the top news sources in the world. - Mainstream news sources have two primary functions: distracting you with entertainment while manufacturing consent. - That’s a really cute outlook, and, like a lot of the people who tell you “MSM is evil!”, well divorced to reality. 
 
 
 



