“” “” Did anyone ever see those Russian ads they keep going on and on about? I never did.”” “”
It doesn’t really matter even if everyone seen it although it is most likely that the Russian government has nothing to do with it.
The major point is that US Dept of State is involved in operations of such sort around the world much more extensively and aggressively and it is real and not fiction.
In Russia itself they own about a dozen of media outlets which are virulently anti-government, they run numerous think tanks aimed at ‘liberal reforms’ say removal of Russian government and the entire center-left in Russia organizing riots and fomenting unrest is owned, trained and advised by US government.
The same thing going on all around the world and more so in allied countries like Israel or Germany.
It is all tolerated based on an idea of free speech and Russia didn’t even have an analogue of FARA act until a couple of years ago.
The effect of the Russian meddling hoax on US soft power can’t be overestimated. Not only it is mostly false but even if true everything ‘Russians’ allegedly did is simply innocent comparing to things perpetrated by US government elsewhere.
Now tell me who is going to tolerate ANY American influence in a couple years in light of such hypocrisy.
It is not 1950 when they could get stuff in US they couldn’t get elsewhere.
That.