Russian disinformation warfare is very much real, no matter if it is a Lithuanian workman or the head of the CIA talking about it.
The head of the CIA might have ulterior motives but it is silly to dismiss the facts though.
That said, the ones doing it the most are those with most resources. So, the US and us vassals working for our "partners" across the Atlantic.
The thing is that your comment felt to me a bit like a somewhat common dismissal of real and corrosive problems facing democracy these days.
Like for instance now you say that “everyone is doing it” but what is “it” there? Because not everyone is actually spreading disinformation about everything. People, corporations and governments have agendas of course but how they go about things really matters.
There is a clear difference between the ways and behaviour of western democracies on the one hand and Russia and China on the other hand. I know in which places I do and don’t want to live for instance.
False advertising is a very serious offence in my book. Wouldn't move to Russia unless they change course.
They may be local but in society like afghan one that can have various meaning too since there are many distinct clans who often openly fight each other. Ie British previously loved in their colonies to give power to some minority to focus hatred within locals and keep eyes from their exploitation business. Quite a few of that caused some recent conflicts in Africa.
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2023/November/...
You know when the opium production numbers started to rise, in earlier times (according to the same statistics)? 2004. Correlates with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80...