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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: dforest

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

Think of how many lives could have been spared if peace talks had been successful 2 years ago.


81 posted on 04/08/2024 7:39:14 PM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: bimboeruption

I am really serious. People are done with this in Ukraine. It has went on far too long and the “NASTO” has proved to be unready and incompetent. They over valued what they thought there were and could produce. These globalists are lame brains with no value for human life other than their own.

They relied on winning a war of propaganda and the world found out talk is cheap. They didn’t put the money where their big mouths are, they put it in their own pockets.


82 posted on 04/08/2024 7:48:05 PM PDT by dforest
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To: freeandfreezing

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

How did you arrive at this conclusion?

Did you walk the streets of America asking everyone their position on the Ukraine-Russia War?

Are you calling FReepers who post against funding Ukraine unpatriotic?

We need Rocco to resurrect the Stupid Zeeper of the Day Award. You’d be the winner for an entire year.


83 posted on 04/08/2024 7:59:16 PM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: dforest

>>> These globalists are lame brains with no value for human life other than their own.<<<

The Ukraine-Russia War is the wet dream of every globalist: White Christians killing White Christians.

I heard on the War Room this morning that 70% of Americans recently polled were against sending Zelensky any more money.


84 posted on 04/08/2024 8:24:48 PM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: freeandfreezing

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

Too true. But, after the article called them out it has been quite entertaining watching the anti-Ukraine gang ‘stew in their own juices.’


85 posted on 04/08/2024 8:24:53 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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'Nite all :)
86 posted on 04/08/2024 8:27:07 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

“The article called them ooooout”
Lol
No, it just repeated the false premise that anyone who opposes the war adventure must be Russian or a Russian troll.


87 posted on 04/08/2024 8:34:08 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare

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

Zeepers are like that. Yes, they are.


88 posted on 04/08/2024 8:38:41 PM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
Oh dear!!! Russian trolls!! v. Ukie trolls!! What to do?? What to do??

Were those the same Russian trolls who interfered with Hillary's win in 2016?

89 posted on 04/08/2024 8:44:34 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
We know you're not really going to bed. You'll be lurking and taking notes for your files.

I bet your Naughty And Nice list is growing by leaps and bounds.

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90 posted on 04/08/2024 8:45:18 PM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Why should we care who wins?

Simple

Putin invaded Ukraine PERIOD.

And yes, he will invade the entire front range of NATO ‘rescuing his fellow Soviet idealists’ in the manner you so fatefully and loyally report.

The idea that posting comments in support of Ukrainian independence is somehow an impossible burden for you or fellow Putinistas to bear is the absurdity of the moment.


91 posted on 04/08/2024 8:45:48 PM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

“RUSSIA!, RUSSIA!, RUSSIA!”?


92 posted on 04/08/2024 8:46:12 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: MinorityRepublican
"But if you're calling the Ukrainians neo-Nazi, it's obvious that you're working for the Kremlin."

Right, because there were never any Ukraine Nazis serving Hitler in Ukraine? Right?

93 posted on 04/08/2024 8:49:35 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: canuck_conservative
"What a joke these Putin apologists are."

Explain what a Putin apologist is please?

94 posted on 04/08/2024 8:55:35 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: bimboeruption
"I don’t think the eclipse was visible in Kiev."

They wouldn't have seen it no matter where it was visible, because their heads are too far up their arses.

95 posted on 04/08/2024 8:57:52 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: freeandfreezing
"That allows us to cut future defense spending."

Pssst. We don't have any freaking money for defense spending.

96 posted on 04/08/2024 8:59:57 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: freeandfreezing
"The pro-Russian posters here on Free Republic don't argue their case for why the US should not fund Ukraine."

You're full of doo-doo on that one, because I've said it over and over again on other threads like this one. You just haven't bothered to read any of them. Click on my screen name, and go to "In Forum," if you're not too lazy to find out.

97 posted on 04/08/2024 9:04:30 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: MinorityRepublican
But if you're calling the Ukrainians neo-Nazi, it's obvious that you're working for the Kremlin .

But if we just observe that Ukrainian military wear swastikas and have swastika tats, they could be either neo-Nazi or paleo-Nazi. So, there's that.

98 posted on 04/08/2024 9:04:42 PM PDT by woodpusher
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To: Timber Rattler
You see that all the time around here with dodgy pro-Kremlin blogs and vblog sourcing, and supposedly "alternative" news sites, which are generally fake.

You never see any of that fake news on a Mom thread. That's 100% genuine propaganda.

99 posted on 04/08/2024 9:06:50 PM PDT by woodpusher
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To: bimboeruption

****To: bimboeruption
Back off the personal attacks!
130 posted on 3/9/2024, 4:26:57 AM by Admin Moderator
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100 posted on 04/08/2024 9:08:39 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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