Russia spreading false claims about Qur’an burnings to harm NATO bid, says Sweden

https://lemmy.world/post/2763390

Russia spreading false claims about Qur’an burnings to harm NATO bid, says Sweden - Lemmy.world

Defence agency says Moscow is using the protests in Stockholm to stir tensions between Arab countries and the west

Russia at the center of a whole hell of a lot of the tension and strife that the world has gone through over the last few years.

He is trying to destabilize the West in hundreds of different way and average folks just don’t understand or actually would even believe. Far right candidates in Italy, France, the US and elsewhere. Stirring of the religious pot in Sweden and a few other Europeans countries. He has an army of Russian trolls online trying to spread misinformation and propaganda. The most obvious international meddling that he’s done is invade Ukraine, but there is just so much more.

This list is from 5 years ago and so much more could be added, but much of the meddling we won’t really know for years to come.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/…/619056001/

Alleged Russian political meddling documented in 27 countries since 2004

The meddling started in former Soviet republics allied with the West and spread to Western Europe and most recently to Canada and the United States.

USA TODAY
Any Western reporting about how much Russia “meddles” in the affairs of others is laughable because the US and the Western European powers have done so much more, for so much longer, and far more effectively. If the goal is to stop meddling, try dismantling the West first, then go after the smaller threats.

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Edgy teen angst comment right here.

Pretty much describes the entire lemmygrad instance

Super annoying, isn’t it.

I got some clown named @bigMouthCommie who responded to me who thinks he’s clever. It’s a 5year old account with no other posts except to reply to me. He asked for citations thinking I wouldn’t have any. I gave him a couple, but I know he’ll never even look at them.

@Hazdaz

do you know how i know that you don't know how federation works?

And like Rumpelstiltskin he fucking showed up lol what a loser.

@Buffaloaf @Hazdaz

Easy block for me. Thanks. :)

I remember when it first started Worldnews on reddit was swarmed with all these weird accounts like that. Multiple years old with no activity until that day and then 8 comments supporting Russia.

To the credit of reddit mods every account I reported for taken down.

Yeah I don’t know how Lemmy works when it comes to that. I think with the upcoming US elections this kind of shit is going to explode here now that this site is getting more traffic. I really think people here are ill prepared for an onslaught of bad actors and I don’t think mods here have any way to stop it.
I can’t see them being able to do anything. Someone is going to have to add on something to the site that lets you mark accounts that are paid Russian shills that everyone else can see.
Useful idiots. Anyone thinking defending Russia is defending communism is a moron. Russia isn’t a Communist state, it’s a fascist state.
The russian federation makes Japan look like a communist utopia in comparison. It is crazy that people still can not seem to figure out that russian federation ≠ the USSR.
The only thing Russia and the USSR they have in common is the facism