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Russia’s Top Five Persistent Disinformation Narratives
U.S. Department of State ^ | January 20, 2022 | State Department

Posted on 01/21/2022 5:33:29 PM PST by Trump20162020

Theme #3: “The Collapse of Western Civilization is Imminent”

Russia pushes the false claim that Western civilization is collapsing and has strayed from “traditional values” because it works to ensure the safety and equality of LGBTQI+ people and promotes concepts such as female equality and multiculturalism. The demise of Western civilization is one of Russia’s oldest disinformation tropes, with claims of “the decaying west” documented since the 19th century.

This “values”-based disinformation narrative evokes ill-defined concepts including “tradition,” “family values,” and “spirituality.” Russia argues it is the bastion of so-called “traditional values” and gender roles and serves as a moral counterweight to the “decadence” of the United States and Western countries. For example, President Putin has claimed the West has practically cancelled the concepts of “mother” and “father,” and instead has replaced them with “parent 1 and 2,” while Foreign Minister Lavrov wrote that Western students “learn at school that Jesus Christ was bisexual.”

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: russia; statedepartment
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1 posted on 01/21/2022 5:33:29 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Wynken and Blynken at the Truth.

The DOS should go fix the border with Mexico.


2 posted on 01/21/2022 5:35:10 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Trump20162020

Our State Department is worse than useless if it is not concerned about the fate of Western Civilizaiton.


3 posted on 01/21/2022 5:35:15 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Trump20162020

It seems that the Department of the deep State has missed the mark on Russia.


4 posted on 01/21/2022 5:38:42 PM PST by just Grace
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To: Trump20162020

Russia is correct about this point.


5 posted on 01/21/2022 5:40:41 PM PST by JoanSmith
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To: Trump20162020
OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON

Sounds like something out of Orwell's 1984.

Governments disinform. It's what they do.

6 posted on 01/21/2022 5:43:22 PM PST by x
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To: Trump20162020

Russia is an inherent part of Western Civilization. Indo-European language group, Greco-Roman cultural heritage. Christian religion.


7 posted on 01/21/2022 5:44:12 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Trump20162020

In college history before the age of political correctness a professor taught that the rise in power of eunuchs was a sign of civilizational collapse. As Paul Joseph Watson pointed out a trans “woman” is a eunuch with boobs. So yes Russia is correct.


8 posted on 01/21/2022 5:49:37 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Paladin2
Yes, Blinken. Moved to Paris at age 9 to live with his divorced mother and a stepfather who was, among other things, born in Poland and raised in Australia. The stepfather was Robert Maxwell's lawyer and the last person to see him alive.

That a guy with this background is representing America's vital interests is very, very concerning.

9 posted on 01/21/2022 5:51:47 PM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Trump20162020

This is true. If not a done deal it is the goal.

Democrats push and implement agendas all while denying it is happening.


10 posted on 01/21/2022 5:54:59 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Jim Noble

“Under a financial disclosure filed by the Biden transition team in December 2020, Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken declared that clients of WestExec included “investment giant Blackstone, Bank of America, Facebook, Uber, McKinsey & Company, the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, the pharmaceutical company Gilead, the investment bank Lazard, Boeing, AT&T, the Royal Bank of Canada, LinkedIn and the venerable Sotheby’s””

I’ll go with him being a Blackstone asset pending future data.


11 posted on 01/21/2022 5:57:39 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Trump20162020

Russia pushes the false claim that Western civilization is collapsing and has strayed from “traditional values” because it works to ensure the safety and equality of LGBTQI+ people and promotes concepts such as female equality and multiculturalism.

LOL...
And the State Department also claims that color revolutions are completely organic and occur out of thin air.

May the first H-bomb to hit DC go off directly over the State Dept building.


12 posted on 01/21/2022 6:00:07 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: Trump20162020
"Theme #5: Reality is Whatever the Kremlin Foggy Bottom Wants It to Be"
13 posted on 01/21/2022 6:03:28 PM PST by Paladin2
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Whenever a globalist elitist says something is false, they mean it is true and dangerous to globalism.


14 posted on 01/21/2022 6:04:02 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (a cloud has fallen over the lands of the free )
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To: Trump20162020

The Russians are mistaken if they think anywhere near the majority of Americans accept the academia/ Beltway/ big business/ Hollywood/ media cultural, racial, and sexual depravity. I work with almost all 20 somethings for a tree trimming business. All of them are as manly and tough as specimens from any previous generation, and none of them believe in horse$#!+ like “57 genders,” “2020 was honest,” “Fauci is science,” etc.


15 posted on 01/21/2022 6:10:42 PM PST by Big Brother Go to Hell
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To: Paladin2

Stepfather a holocaust survivor and tied in with Maxwell? Mother wanted to bring him up in France?

Lots to work with here. An asset? You betcha.

Of America? Dubious.


16 posted on 01/21/2022 6:42:16 PM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Trump20162020

Presenting Russia’s arguments undermines their own position.
Since when is LGBTQ the fruit of Western civilization?
Western civilization arose out of Christendom. Anyone with any Biblical awareness would know that bad fruit is nothing to be proud of.


17 posted on 01/21/2022 6:50:38 PM PST by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
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To: Trump20162020

Yawn.


18 posted on 01/21/2022 6:50:40 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: grumpygresh

The US Govt position now is that we are in the Ukraine to spread gay/homo rights & Russia is bad because it doesn’t allow gays/homos to propagandize their kids that’s it’s gay/okay.


19 posted on 01/21/2022 6:56:34 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: BenLurkin

They don’t seem to be concerned with diplomacy either.


20 posted on 01/21/2022 7:04:12 PM PST by scrabblehack
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