January 12, 2022
Russia has been able to help shape the U.S.'s destiny by interfering with elections and spreading other misinformation.
Now they're getting ready to start taking over Europe. Other countries are trying to dissuade them with diplomacy, and threats of sanctions. If things get really dire, they may even try thoughts and prayers.
It would be swell if we could use disinformation against Russia, for a change. If Russians don't actually believe that Vladimir Putin eats babies, maybe they'd believe that taxes are going to rise to 90%; or that President Putin will conscript the children of Russian mobsters - or even the mobsters themselves - to serve in the war he's about to start. Or that he is deliberately underplaying the effects of coronavirus, and limiting vaccines, to eliminate groups of people he doesn't like.
Do you suppose any Russian citizens would fall for it and try to undermine him?
Of course, it's hard to gain traction against a guy who simply arranges for people he doesn't like to be poisoned.
New question: In a face-off between the Russian mob and Vladimir Putin, who would win?
(Sorry, my mind wandered from the original point of the post.)
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