The ones that haven't suddenly decided that Russia is our best friend all of a sudden for some reason that I still can't figure out. This is even considering that Russia was found to have been paying out bounties on dead American soldiers, or that they had people assassinated in the UK. Certainly it should be a disqualifier that Russia isn't a true Democracy and had Putin's political opponents jailed. Two Democracies won't directly start a conflict against each other, but that doesn't hold up between Democracies and non-Democracies.

My hope is that as Russia runs out of money and organization to fund overseas psyops, the sheen will wear off.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

My hope is that as Russia runs out of money and organization to fund overseas psyops, the sheen will wear off.

Same, feels like the democracies of the world really got caught with their pants down by authoritarian operatives and their LLMs on social media.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Putin will only run out of money once the price of oil nosedives.

That won't happen because Saudi Arabia has been squeezing oil output to keep the price high because they need the money for their countries transformation to a horror Show (different discussion required there) and they basically keep squeezing until the US gives them a whole lot of concessions that they don't want to...

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

The ones that haven’t suddenly decided that Russia is our best friend all of a sudden for some reason that I still can’t figure out.

The reason is money. Either they got paid by Putin or they've been brainwashed by someone who got paid by Putin.