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Please be better than just stating a low-effort question. Are you familiar with Voice of America? Can you answer your own question? I'm not familiar with it myself, but I'm from the EU. I only know that it played an effort in the cold war propaganda effort with the (then) Munich-based Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty.

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What should I do better than ask a low effort question that should require a low effort but high value response?

My supposition is that the person I was responding to has not heard of voice of America broadcast recently--in spite of supporting it-- but I was hoping to be proven wrong.

It sounds like you yourself are not someone who values voice of America enough to tune in.

I'm not either. I have no idea what sort of "soft power" a radio broadcast yields these days and for whom it yields it.

It seems like it is more the cavalry ca. 1950

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