• RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    The Iranian propaganda was really effective on leftists and on Reddit in general. There’s an actual subreddit that started tracking foreign influence campaigns on reddit because of this

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      5 days ago

      Historically, whenever civil war suddenly breaks out in any country (not just in the middle east), it’s the CIA 9 times out of 10

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        No, it isn’t. The CIA are not good at statecraft. The FSB/GRU and formerly the KGB were great at that stuff. The CIA “won” the cold war because the CCCP was incompetent not because America was good at anything.

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          4 days ago

          Morons say that every time, until declassification occurs decades later. At some point you need to start seeing the signs

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        5 days ago

        That may not be wrong historically.

        But the CIA had what interest exactly in toppling the US-supported authoritarian regimes in the Middle East with the “Arab Spring” in 2011?