10-11-2017, 05:37 AM
(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.
I believe that Vladimir Putin is repeating the same disastrous
historical mistake that Stalin made. Stalin was completely humiliated
and made a complete fool of by Hitler with the Molotov-Ribintroff
agreement, which was possibly the greatest diplomatic disaster in
Russia's history. Putin should be embracing Europe and the West, but
instead is sucking up to China, which is going to turn on Russia just
as Hitler did.
