• @RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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    314 days ago

    The Iranian propaganda was really effective on leftists and on Reddit in general. There’s an actual subreddit that started tracking foreign influence campaigns on reddit because of this

    • @Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      Historically, whenever civil war suddenly breaks out in any country (not just in the middle east), it’s the CIA 9 times out of 10

      • @Microw@lemm.ee
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        214 days ago

        That may not be wrong historically.

        But the CIA had what interest exactly in toppling the US-supported authoritarian regimes in the Middle East with the “Arab Spring” in 2011?

      • @RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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        114 days ago

        No, it isn’t. The CIA are not good at statecraft. The FSB/GRU and formerly the KGB were great at that stuff. The CIA “won” the cold war because the CCCP was incompetent not because America was good at anything.

        • @Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works
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          114 days ago

          Morons say that every time, until declassification occurs decades later. At some point you need to start seeing the signs