Comment on Russia has escalated its information war against Moldova joining the European Union
lurch@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoThe thing is, that we, the West, don’t want to be an imperial power that invades other countries any more. So there is little reason for us to spread destabilizing lies. We want to be better than that. We want the truth to be our ally.
The thing is, that we, the West, don’t want to be an imperial power that invades other countries any more
That’s true for the majority of the citizens but almost none of the governments.
To go with the most obvious example, the US government is interfering in the affairs of other countries and the private lives of its own citizens as much as it has ever done and willfully lying constantly to cover it and many other things up.
Can you give a current example?
An especially obvious and egregious one os Haiti.
In the recent past, there’s also the US-backed coup against Evo Morales and the attempted one in Venezuela, known as Operation Freedom i case anyone should have any doubt as to who was really behind it…
Military campaign to spread lies that Chinese COVID vaccines are bad www.reuters.com/…/usa-covid-propaganda/
Hard disagree. Russia is worse at the moment but the West is perfectly fine with neocolonialism (using multinational corporations rather than annexations). And we spread destabilizing lies all the time. The most recent one exposed is the U.S. military’s “psychological operations team” (in Tampa, FL) spreading antivax lies about Chinese and Russian vaccines in the Philippines and Middle East (by saying the vaccines contained pork).
Not participating in a disinformation war reminds me of the hesitation to allow Ukraine to strike Russian territory with the supplied weapons. What incentive does thr other side have to stop?
We don’t exoect them to stop. We just believe fighting the truth will ultimately just reveal their weakness.
Yeah right
Yeah right, what just happened in Bolivia then?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It’s possible to have an international influence campaign that’s based on actual facts instead of misinformation, which I assume would be the goal (at least at the inception of such a program).