Quote Originally Posted by carl View Post
That statement of the obvious has what to do with the subject of the thread?
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The Kremlin has practiced a homegrown technique called disinformation for centuries
They were never all that good at; much of their stuff was pretty crude. The Americans were marginally better. Of course it was (and is) also fashionable for ideologues of all points on the compass to denounce reportage or opinions they dislike as "disinformation".