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Yeah, it is similar to dismissing any information that contradicts the official narrative as 'conspiracy theory', without actually going the length to do actual real fact checking.

On the other hand, if a foreign country really wanted to destabilize you, can they do anything better than to exploit real grievances of the local population?

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Knocking you over with military force technically destabilizes things far more than just existing grievances which may have gone off without their intervention at all. Perhaps more destabilization than they even want things to be.

> Knocking you over with military force technically destabilizes things far more

There are just as many examples of national identity being forged in war than there are it being removed.

For example, Russian-speaking Ukrainians in eastern Ukraine had no affinity for Kyiv and didn't think of themselves as Ukrainian before Russia invaded. Now they do.

> can they do anything better than to exploit real grievances of the local population?

Nope. The myth of parachuting into a country and overthrowing a government is just that.

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