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Propaganda and National Divisions in Both Russia and the US
Russian Telegram is proving to be fascinating since it is revealing to me a somewhat fractured society that has been under intense propaganda since 2014 when Russia first went into Ukraine.
It is likelier far longer since there are some low-brow time-traveling novels where everything that has gone wrong for Russia, goes great. This is through the magic of time travel, where even Nazis and Hitler became allies. Not entirely crazy, but of course, this is not through the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Ergo, while Russia is in a campaign to denazify Ukraine, shifting reason number one, they actually love Nazis that help them take London.
I recommend this thread on Twitter for an introduction to this. Why we must pay attention to low-brow culture. There is also a world of difference between time travel novels in the west, and this. For starters, they are not government-sponsored or are literally changing history without taking into account the effects downstream. Fun fact, if Russia won the 1905 Russo-Japanese war, the Tzar likely would have remained in power. The same goes for the First World War.
When you read the following post from Bell 21, and it is in full, think of the United States as well, as intense Russian active measures. They went into hyperdrive in 2015 with things like Cambridge…