The bad news: the Kremlin has learned the power of swamping Westerners with bogus stories:<\/p>\n
Disinformation most famously succeeded in early 2014 with the initial obfuscation about deploying Russian forces to seize Crimea. That summer, Russia pumped out a dizzying array of theories about the destruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine, blaming the C.I.A. and, most outlandishly, Ukrainian fighter pilots who had mistaken the airliner for the Russian presidential aircraft.<\/p>\n
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The cloud of stories helped veil the simple truth that poorly trained insurgents had accidentally downed the plane with a missile supplied by Russia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Russian media – including “RT”, Ed Schultz’s new employer – exist in part to try to baffle the west with BS. \u00a0And, since our media is largely gullible, semiliterate and utterly completely incurious, it works like a charm.<\/p>\n
The good news? \u00a0NATO and the EU are establishing offices to try to “fact-check” the Russian propaganda effort.<\/p>\n
The really bad news? \u00a0Nobody in the western news media is used to fact-checking without a Democrat party operative telling them what the facts are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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