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Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show
Washington Post ^ | 4-8-2024 6:30 a.m. EDT | Catherine Belton, Joseph Menn

Posted on 04/08/2024 1:32:41 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

When President Biden proposed an additional $24 billion in supplemental funding for Ukraine in August, Moscow spin doctors working for the Kremlin were ready to try to undermine public support for the bill, internal Kremlin documents show.

In an ongoing campaign that seeks to influence congressional and other political debates to stoke anti-Ukraine sentiment, Kremlin-linked political strategists and trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles, social media posts and comments that promote American isolationism, stir fear over the United States’ border security and attempt to amplify U.S. economic and racial tensions, according to a trove of internal Kremlin documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post.

One of the political strategists, for instance, instructed a troll farm employee working for his firm to write a comment of “no more than 200 characters in the name of a resident of a suburb of a major city.” The strategist suggested that this fictitious American “doesn’t support the military aid that the U.S. is giving Ukraine and considers that the money should be spent defending America’s borders and not Ukraine’s. He sees that Biden’s policies are leading the U.S. toward collapse.”

The documents — numbering more than 100 and dating between May 2022 and August 2023 — were provided to The Post to expose Kremlin propaganda operations aimed at undermining support for Ukraine in the United States, as well as their scale and methods. The files are part of a series of leaks that have allowed a rare glimpse into Moscow’s parallel efforts to weaken support for Ukraine in France and Germany, as well as destabilize Ukraine itself. -excerpt

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To: Darksheare
That's right out of the Russian propaganda playbook.

Most people aren't supporters of tyrants like Putin invading other nations.

And patriotic Americans who are opposed to funding for foreign wars don't feel the need to post negative propaganda supporting the other side.

Plenty of people were against the war in Vietnam, but they didn't do what Jane Fonda did.

The pro-Russian posters here on Free Republic don't argue their case for why the US should not fund Ukraine. Instead the make claims like Ukraine is run by a Jewish Nazi, or that somehow Victoria Nulan orchestrated the last ten years of history in Ukraine and Russia.

61 posted on 04/08/2024 5:25:00 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

Feeling stung by it being pointed out that your premise is false?
Too bad cupcake.


62 posted on 04/08/2024 5:26:22 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare
Your straw horse is weak.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is our problem in the USA whether we like it or not.

Why don't you tell us what the outcome of the war will be? Is it true that Russia will never launch nuclear weapons, even if, for example, Ukraine demolishes the Kremlin with a missile it bought from Israel, Iran, North Korea, or Pakistan?

If so, why worry, somebody can provide Ukraine with as many weapons as they want and let them destroy Russia which would be to the advantage of the USA.

63 posted on 04/08/2024 5:30:03 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Bikkuri; Allegra; bimboeruption

Check out my post 48, then look at who proved it correct in post 61.
Hilarious.


64 posted on 04/08/2024 5:30:44 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: freeandfreezing

I’m not the one shrieking in hysterics at everyone else that not supporting the war adventure means they are Russians.
That’s the zeepers doing that.
And it amuses me to watch you guys do it.


65 posted on 04/08/2024 5:32:08 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare

Not at all. Why are you so sure you want Putin to win in Ukraine?


66 posted on 04/08/2024 5:32:57 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

“That’s right out of the Russian propaganda playbook.”

I.E. pointing out the zeeper strawman means I’m straight from the russian propaganda playbook.
Do keep up.


67 posted on 04/08/2024 5:34:19 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare
Check out my post 48, then look at who proved it correct in post 61.
Hilarious.

LOL - that zeeper walked right into it. 😄

They’re so predictable.

68 posted on 04/08/2024 5:57:49 PM PDT by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated.)
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To: Darksheare
So true.. I WAS going to put up a "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (Jack Nicholson) GIF... but I don't think it would have passed the Admin test... :P

(https://i.giphy.com/uYxQmptRn2RYA.webp)

:^D
69 posted on 04/08/2024 6:03:06 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Allegra

Basically proved me right with his opening words.


70 posted on 04/08/2024 6:05:03 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Bikkuri

True, true.


71 posted on 04/08/2024 6:05:41 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion; Bikkuri; Allegra; kiryandil

UNREAL that this Bea Ess, WaComPost drivel is even allowed.

Also interesting to note that the Uke $hills often resemble the $hot $hills.

What a pathetic way to make a retirement living.

72 posted on 04/08/2024 6:20:12 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Jane Long
Also interesting to note that the Uke $hills often resemble the $hot $hills.

Agree.

And I suspect at least one is paid. Maybe two.

73 posted on 04/08/2024 7:02:22 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: MotorCityBuck

>>>>LOL! Thanks that meme always makes my day with these Ukie Clowns. Always makes my Day!
Good to have Psycho Mommy back. The “Yawn” must have lasted longer than usual as It’s been missing for a few days. ;)<<<<

No Buck, she’s not missing, she’s hiding out it other FReeper’s threads because of all the negative comments she gets when she starts a thread...like this one.

She jumps into an established thread, usually someone who isn’t a zeeper and starts spamming away. She did that in this thread yesterday: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4229483/posts


74 posted on 04/08/2024 7:07:31 PM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
I have a spoon.
75 posted on 04/08/2024 7:14:27 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare

>>>>Check out my post 48, then look at who proved it correct in post 61.
Hilarious.<<<<

My gosh, the stupid runs deep in that one.


76 posted on 04/08/2024 7:14:52 PM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: bimboeruption

Nothing like shouting “get down mister president” and diving face first onto a landmine like that.
But, they did.


77 posted on 04/08/2024 7:16:38 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

US citizens are done with Ukraine. Sorry they just are. We are tired of paying for it and we do not see it has any benefit to us as our own country is a mess.

Russian trolls have no impact at all on how we perceive Ukraine and the great failure there. This is all BS to try to explain away the fact that we do not support that war or funding it.

I knew people at first that supported it. None of them do anymore.

It needs to end there because enough damage has been done for all.


78 posted on 04/08/2024 7:24:44 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Right Brother

Good point.


79 posted on 04/08/2024 7:25:48 PM PDT by dforest
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To: freeandfreezing

That is probably the most totally wrong and messed up post I have ever seen regarding this.

Stupid to the max. People have argued all that you claim they never do over and over on these disingenuous Ukraine threads of pure propaganda.

Everyone knows Ukraine is done. It is toast.

Your problem is that you don’t comprehend what they are saying because you want to always be right even when you are not.


80 posted on 04/08/2024 7:32:42 PM PDT by dforest
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