>This works everywhere in the world, there is nothing endemic to Russia in this strategy.
Yeah right, no[1].
My family moved to the US from Ukraine when I was 16, and I've been keeping tabs on the politics and media over there.
So no, you can't compare US media and Russian media. Just because 1 and 10 are both positive numbers, it doesn't mean they are close if you consider the interval [0, 10].
You know, from casual mentions that Russia is "the only country that can turn America into radioactive dust"[2] on prime-time TV news to, well, everything else - you just don't get this stuff here. (And please don't object if you haven't watched Russian TV in Russian! You don't have a point of reference to compare to!).
The US media has taken a large step towards Russian-style vitriol with Trump's campaign, which is when I started to suspect a Russian connection. In my opinion, that has been the largest (and, sadly, nearly irreversible) impact on this country - shaping (or, rather, destroying) the discourse.
To my surprise, many others have noticed it, and written about in major publications and blogs [3][4][5][6][7] - and yet it still remains largely under the radar in discussions about Russian influence.
Yeah right, no[1].
My family moved to the US from Ukraine when I was 16, and I've been keeping tabs on the politics and media over there.
So no, you can't compare US media and Russian media. Just because 1 and 10 are both positive numbers, it doesn't mean they are close if you consider the interval [0, 10].
You know, from casual mentions that Russia is "the only country that can turn America into radioactive dust"[2] on prime-time TV news to, well, everything else - you just don't get this stuff here. (And please don't object if you haven't watched Russian TV in Russian! You don't have a point of reference to compare to!).
The US media has taken a large step towards Russian-style vitriol with Trump's campaign, which is when I started to suspect a Russian connection. In my opinion, that has been the largest (and, sadly, nearly irreversible) impact on this country - shaping (or, rather, destroying) the discourse.
To my surprise, many others have noticed it, and written about in major publications and blogs [3][4][5][6][7] - and yet it still remains largely under the radar in discussions about Russian influence.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
[2]https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2816127
[3] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/is-trumps-chaos-a-mo...
[4] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/27/trumps-ru...
[5] https://theoutline.com/post/3522/donald-trump-and-vladislav-...
[6] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/how-russia-expor...
[7] https://amandarivkin.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/from-russian-t...