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Russia fucking up the worlds stuff this decade will be the material for history books. The are actively breaking Europe and almost noone seems to care.

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Second will be how the internet with social media like twitter/x destroyed our democracy.

If Europe is what it claims to be: an enlightened democracy with progressive intelligent populace it can not be broken by demented crap messages from twitter.

If however it is fucked up and on a brink of collapse then sure. Little nudge can steer it into "right" direction. but then who is guilty in a first place.

You should read up on how russian money buys influenve, eg. In Moldavia.

the idea that propaganda doesn't work is certainly an interesting one.

That's part of the propaganda. Please ignore the Internet Research Agency's massive army of troll farms and bots. Please ignore that they controlled half of the largest American Facebook groups catering to racial identity or religion. Nothing to see and no impact.

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