The Russian state is embedding war into the routine of growing up, lowering the threshold of habituation to violence, obedience and the official language of war.
Russia suffered a geopolitical setback following Maduro’s fall. More than that, there are lessons to be drawn from Venezuela shake-up: oil (and gas) cannot save an economy, and the regime can survive without its top man.
In certain cases, the false narratives in question originated in Romania, but most often it was a matter of taking over and/or adapting disinformation theses to local narratives that have external actors as their source, especially Russia, certain political currents from the West (the alt-right area, the radical left) or conspiracist circles.
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Russia’s internet is being reshaped from an infrastructure that once served society, the state, and business into an instrument of control.