The Russian state media network RT was one of the first outlets to broadcast graphic footage of the assassination last week.

Russia and other foreign adversaries have pounced on the assassination of Charlie Kirk as an opportunity to spread propaganda aimed at aggravating U.S. political divisions and painting America as an unstable country on the decline, according to researchers.

Soon after the news broke about Kirk’s murder, Russian state media and pro-Kremlin voices on social media suggested that the United States was poised for a possible civil war and that dark conspiracies — possibly involving elements of a “deep state” — had played a role in the murder.

Chinese state media portrayed the attack as yet another example of a troubled society in decline, plagued by political disorder and gun violence. State media posted video of lawmakers arguing in Congress and highlighted U.S. experts discussing a climate of violence.

  • Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I mean… USA is painting itself as an unstable country on the decline just fine, no need for external help.

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        Trump is the best president for a country like Russia to serve it’s imperial interests. Trump is already doing his job of dividing the usa, he is the only one to blame

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        There is nothing more damaging that Russia or China could do to America than tell the truth. Like actual legit balanced, insightful well researched and written journalism.

        Propaganda isn’t useful. Legitimate journalism is devastating to a regime like Trump.

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          USA suck and at the same time China and Russia are spreading propaganda. There is no “good” country telling the truth here and definitely those two have nothing to do with legitimate journalism LOL

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            Absolutely. It was a poorly worded aspirational joke that China and Russia should fund legitimate investigative journalism. Sorry for the confusion.

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          I mean I can think of one thing: tell the truth one day and a bald faced lie the next. Repeatedly propping up a regime with one hand and denigrating it with the other causes deep fractures that you can’t get from a simple one sided attack.

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      Yes, I’m sure there was no foreign interference up to this point.

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        Definitely less than all the interference of the USA in every country of the world, but what is your point?

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          That, despite your earlier statement, they already have external help to be on the decline.

          The US has never existed in a vacuum. Even from the beginning, when the French helped during the American revolution, there have been foreign interests helping or hindering based on their own needs.

          Even if “whattabout” the US’s own interference in other nations and cultures… they learned from others. No country on this earth has been without interference one way or another. To imply otherwise is ignorant at best, though more likely disingenuous.

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          my dad said your dad smells

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