A Russian-backed "propaganda" network has been broken up for spreading anti-Ukraine stories and paying unnamed European politicians, according to authorities in several countries.
Investigators claimed it used the popular Voice of Europe website as a vehicle to pay politicians.
The Czech Republic and Poland said the network aimed to influence European politics.
Voice of Europe did not respond to the BBC's request for comment.
Czech media, citing intelligence sources, reported that politicians from Germany, France, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Hungary were paid by Voice of Europe in order to influence upcoming elections for the European Parliament.
The German newspaper Der Spiegel said the money was either handed over in cash in covert meetings in Prague or through cryptocurrency exchanges.
We know that the Russians have been paying for a covert media operation in this country. They have paid a number of Right-wing influencers to spout Russian propaganga.
So, is it beyond the realm of possibility that the Russians have been channeling money to American politicians who are willing to take Putin's cash to spread his lies? If so, then I would suggest that some deep investigative attention be paid to the American appeasers who are spouting the same line as Moscow.
You know who they are. And it goes right to the top of the GOP, for, as the old saying goes, fish rot from the head.
The Russian influence is seen everyday on sites like Mediate and MSN articles. If they can they squeeze in Anti-Ukraine comments no matter what the subject matter is in the article. If the article is about kitty litter they will post something like, "No one can afford kitty litter or even cat food because all their tax money is going to Ukraine and Zelensy's bank account." It doesn't have to be true or even logical. But it works if some of the gullible believe it. And the number of Trump (Russian Ass-et) supporters who will gain nothing from his election and probably lose, still show how many are still very gullible.
ReplyDeleteI don't follow the election as much as maybe I should, since it is the same old, same old. But it would seem like the Russians would prefer to have Kamala Harris as president than to have Trump again. Harris is the much weaker possible commander in chief of the two.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should follow it, for Trump is their guy. He always has been. He said that Putin was very smart for invading Ukraine when everyone not on Putin’s payroll was condemning it. Trump is very susceptible to flattery; Putin plays him like a fiddle. None of this is new information.
DeleteThey meddle in every Western democratic election
ReplyDeletehttps://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/6/5/pragmatic-manipulation-is-russia-playing-with-european-voters-minds
Conservatives and authoritarians lap this shit up. It's a known bias if you cause enough dissension.
Ireland: News is coming out that one of their pols is compromised. They haven't announced their name as charge are being prepared.
ReplyDeleteComrade Misfit, I follow some of the things dealing with the election. But things that are of no real value, such as polls, I tend to ignore. Because polls are so unreliable as to be nothing more than propaganda for the person commissioning the poll. Case in point, in 2016, Hillary Clinton was a shoe in for the win, but we saw what happened.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Russians wanting Trump over Harris, even if Trump is on Putin's side, I still think it would be much easier for Putin to manipulate a President Harris.
As far as the Russians trying to influence the elections of the west, that much is likely. But compare it to our own leadership in America and how we have placed politicians in charge of countries, sometimes through influencing elections, and sometimes simply by dictating it to be so. I think of the South Vietnam nation during the war and then of the two nations of Afghanistan and Iraq.
We could also go into the 9/11 terrorist incident when some 19 terrorists killed a couple thousand of our citizens. I think that something like 17 of the 19 men were from Saudi Arabia, so of course we first let their leaders leave the United States via plane, when everyone else was pretty much grounded.
Than what does G.W. Bush do, likely due to Dick Cheney's influence? First we invade Afghanistan and then we hit Iraq. There are several thoughts of why we invaded both nations. One is because of Dick Cheney's Halliburton ties. Another one is because Afghanistan has large deposits of lithium and other necessary minerals useful to our own industry. And of course Iraq has some of the best quality deposits of oil in the middle east.
The thing that hits me hard is that when this was happening, Cheney was a pariah to the Democrat party, and rightly so. But now that he has voiced his support for Kamala Harris, suddenly he is welcomed with open arms. But at least in my own mind, he has not changed anything other than voicing his support of the Democrat presidential candidate. He is still a lifelong D.C. insider who is scum, and is only concerned with his own welfare.
The thing that I am seeing now has to do with the hurricanes that are affecting us in the south and east. It has gone from a humanitarian issue, which is should be, to being a political football, tossed around by both sides. While I am a conservative with libertarian leanings, it angers me when those who claim to be conservatives turn out to be nothing other than part of the so called swamp of Washington.
Of course both sides have changed. The liberal Democrat side that used to be something that could be admired for their convictions and their support of the common person has seen their platform hijacked by the extreme left. And the conservative Republicans, who also had much to be proud of, has also been hijacked by the extreme right, with the result that the majority of people who are in the middle have been abandoned by everyone.
Of course any third party has effectively been shut out, with the last one that had a real effect being Ross Perot. Not without his own problems, at least he was able to speak directly to the American people without appearing to either talk down to them or to just say what they wanted to hear.
I am sorry for such a long post, with so many issues covered, but I think that much of it has to do with the current election and issues that influence what happens. Be well, and thank you for your patience with me and my sometimes naive and sometimes plain wrong ideas. I appreciate it when someone calls me out when I am wrong, and proves why via facts, which I often find here, more than at many other places, where I am called wrong, but not with any reason other than because the person thinks that they are right. You have many people here who are intelligent and insightful, and they are often helpful to my thinking.