A good part of the world doesn’t like the U.S. government, and it’s all RT’s fault. From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:
The US simply cannot accept that it lost the battle for hearts and minds across the Global South and even among a growing segment of the Western population itself.
The US’ sanctions against RT on the basis of it supposedly functioning as an undeclared intelligence agency “engaged in covert influence operations” are the continuation of its liberal–globalist elite’s efforts to revive the Russiagate conspiracy theory ahead of the November elections. Elements thereof earlier smeared Jill Stein as “a useful idiot for Russia” and then RT was accused of financing some top conservative influencers, who weren’t even aware of these alleged ties, all of which was explained here:
* 4 September: “The Democrats’ Attacks Against Jill Stein Show How Desperate They’re Getting”
* 5 September: “The Latest Russiagate Scandal Aims To Discredit Alt-Media & Trump”
* 7 September: “Russia’s Tenet Media Operation Was A Total Flop If The Reports Are True”
The intent was to discredit third-party candidates, Alt-Media, Trump, and top conservative influencers in the hopes of manipulating more voters into casting their ballots for Kamala. It remains to be seen whether this will succeed, but the complementary goal being advanced by the latest move is to scapegoat RT for the US’ global soft power failures. RT has proudly informed their audience of “inconvenient truths” about US foreign policy, however, so there’s nothing conspiratorial about that.
The same goes for the crowdfunding that it’s carried out in support of the Russian Armed Forces, which was done openly and regularly boasted about by editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan. These are the only two accusations that have any weight to them, but as was shown, there’s nothing conspiratorial about them since they’re not a secret. The other one about RT engaging in “intelligence” work is totally dishonest though and nothing but an attempt to discredit Russia’s global media flagship.
They even attack Jill Stein and Cornel West.
The comrades won’t stop until it is a smoldering heap of ruin.
Are VV Putin’s faux endorsements of Brandon and Cackles part of the 4-D chess? (/s)
Trump is a vulgarian dumbass horndog mean tweeter and a KGB chess master at the Moscow pee pee suite with orbital inflation lasers?
The stupid it burns.
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