By your definition, you need to include the U.S. also. As far as I can tell the Democrats were responsible for that. Of course the Democrats loved the Soviet Union before it became Russia again.
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The US is one of the worst violators of that.
Right behind the UK. That type of tactic pitting people against each other is massively evil. It’s the basic divide and conquer approach.
Russia got started late on that train.
My post was directed more that “Palestinians” were a 1960’s Russian Propaganda invention for the Jordanians in the area.