• trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    The ties were pretty clear with the Brexit propaganda campaign.

    As are the ties with other far right movements around the world.

    • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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      Russia’s more than happy to throw gas on the fire, for sure.

      But they didn’t start it. They’re taking advantage of the failures of capitalist neoliberalism in the West for their own advantage, but - and this is crucial - the existence of those failures is not something paranoia about Russia can address.

      In the US, you literally had people from the Democratic party discussing how BLM was a Russian front, because the Russians were happy to show how the US treated people. But Russia didn’t put those racist cops, Russia didn’t give them immunity - Russia didn’t make the US have the world’s largest prison population that’s overwhelmingly minority.

      You don’t want Brexit, don’t have wealth gaps and massive housing costs so people can be pushed to blame their shitty lives on Polish immigrants.