10-24-2017, 05:42 AM
(10-11-2017, 05:37 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:(10-10-2017, 08:39 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: > Except one. If Russia is going to be our ally, then why all the
> fuss over Russian X, where X = trolls, #fakenews,etc.?
> If #fakenews works so well, why aren't we doing it? It has a lot
> fewer causalities.
Russia will be our ally for the same reason that Stalin was our ally -
they're less worse than the alternative.
In my opinion, fake news and trolls do no good at all except produce
political chaos. Russia's trolls and fake news claim that Russia
didn't invade Crimea, and yet there are still American and European
sanctions on Russia for invading Crimea. Russia claims they didn't
shoot down the airliner, but everyone believes they did. Russia
claims that al-Assad didn't use Sarin gas, but everyone believes they
did. In my opinion, Russia's fake news and trolls not only did them
no good, they caused enormous harm, because Russian officials and
media have almost no credibility any more.
You mistake the purpose of Russian style fake news. It's not meant to take care of long term issues; it's meant to sow short term uncertainty and doubt for just long enough to let Russia seize what it chooses.
The fact that Russia still occupies Crimea, and through proxies, Donbas and South Ossetia, shows that Russia's fake news is highly effective.
Not that Russia might not still be an eventual ally against radical Islam, mind.
