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

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

USA you mean?

Whataboutism
Since when is it a point?
"I’m going to attempt to derail the conversation and distract from the main topic by pointlessly bringing up the United States, as if that somehow makes what other bad actors are doing completely okay! How dare you criticize other countries for doing shitty things! "