Russia allegedly invests billions in disinformation campaign to sway German elections
Russia allegedly invests billions in disinformation campaign to sway German elections
Russian authorities have funneled significant funds into creating a network of hundreds of thousands of fake social media accounts, forging news sites, and disseminating false information. The Putin regime allocates up to two billion euros annually for large-scale disinformation operations in German...
Not just german elections. Also did to usa elections, here in orbanistan, slovakia, romania, etc...
even Ukraine over the last 6 years, and georgia. and as i've watched things playeout after the last 20 years, i can say with confidence: no event is too small for russia to interfere. they desire total global dominance. they will do anything to achieve it. and the easiest way ho weaken everyone else is disinformation to make us all live in our own individual customized reality
Mexican too, we even had RT ads in plain sight back when the Ukraine invasion was starting and the expresident constantly downplayed Putin's shit, we still are applying the outdated (most likely expired too) sputnik vaccine to the public.
Damn! I'm shocked! I would've never assumed
And I would bet some of that money is coming from Elon
Laundering through Elon.
Im guessing its going to the AfD
Im not just Güssing. Its quite suspicious that a lot of their politicians have ties to Russia.
No. Shit. They do in the US too. It worked twice now.
And in Bulgaria(?) too. There they had to redo the elections because of this (if I remember correctly)
Classic Russian meddling.
While I have little doubt they are spending many millions on it, I sort of doubt it's billions of euros. They link a telegram source, which talks about German Intelligence. Not impossible, but not an easily verifiable source.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
It just seems rather unlikely they are spending that much on disinformation when the have a real and present war in front of them with huge hardware/personnel loss, and have a waning treasury.
This is hybrid war. AfD and other Russian friendly parties winning means less or less reliable aid to Ukraine
They want to spend 2 billion euros on disinformation so they don't have to spend 5 billion euros on their military.
For example, if they spent 2 billion getting Trump elected and he cuts off US support for Ukraine, that 5 billion would be an absolute bargain for them.
Maybe they meant rubles.
I hear you, but what does it really matter? An (or many) orders of magnitude more than any other country would spend, or even consider.
They're doing it because it's working. They've got America on the ropes and didn't have to nuke anyone.
Worked great in the US, Nazi space karen definitely helped get trump elected
"Allegedly."
The premise here is that Russia is pro Nazi?
Yeah that doesn't track
No, the premise is that the Nazis want to buy russian oil and gas and stop military aid to Ukraine. They also want to end Schengen, leave the Eurozone and maybe even leave the EU. All things that could destabilize all of Europe and the AfD in power helps empower other european extremist right parties, cascading those destabilizing effects through the entire Union.
Vladi, you want my vote? Give me some monry.
I agree that the parties sceptical of the EU in its current form are found mostly on the right. But AfD is pretty closely aligned with the Republican agenda, so as part of a broader social trend of anti woke and conservative revival, blaming any potential wins on Russians, upfront, is a way to sidestep people’s grievances with the disastrous immigration and green policies of Europe.
All that OR
Russia can't handle foreign countries having fair elections.
Surely you've heard of occams razor?