If they are going to abuse it , they have no right to be using it.

What they're doing affects the entire world.
Time to put a stop to their malicious postings.

Make them carry cash in suitcases like the North Koreans

How are they pushing this online? Through social media? Through Russian news outlets? Can we identify the sources and publish them as untrustworthy Russian sources? Can social media outlets identify their sources of fake news and shut them down?

I'm guessing that identifying the sources of these stories on social media would be easier than phony political stories.

Zuckerberg bleats piously about "freedom of speech," but that is a red herring. All he cares about is his cash-flow.

As for sources -- the tv station RT (Russia Today) was very popular among a certain segment of American progressives because they hired several otherwise unemployed American commentators and allowed them to say what they wanted if they criticized the US. But make no mistake -- RT is a Russian State propaganda outlet.

If you truly have no clue about events around the 2016 election, Google "Cambridge Analytica + Facebook."

based on "advice" from Putin. Probably advice he couldn't refuse.

SO ... when we recapture the WH, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? I don't think it would be wise to run on a platform that included payback, but I sure in hell hope that's what we see when we get there. As a nation, we need to destroy the Russian oligarchs who are a threat to the mankind.

but given what's happening, if this is official Russian policy, it verges on an act of war.

and also agree on the sentiment.

Presuming the report is true, our country shouldnt take this kind of behavior just lying down. The problem again goes back to the top with donnie-t and his for all intents and purposes being a russian asset and doing their bidding.

Unplug russia and freeze their assets.

It'll probably look something like this. A real US President telling a little twerp tyrant the way it's gonna be.



"I've learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It's them we must fight..." - Dylan

but certainly not until we get Trump and the GOP out of power.

Their evil buddies, Russia, will pile lies on top of the republican lies, creating a lie sandwich.

and the numbers are very sparse. This tells me they aren't testing or they aren't reporting or both

Have been looking at JHopkins site since December

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Very, very harshly dealt with.

deploying coronavirus disinformation... through their WH agent orange.

The last time any Russians took a "cruise", it was to retrieve their sunken submarine. I don't remember if it was before or after they nuked themselves in Chernobyl.

And we're afraid of them?

which sank in August of 2000.

A completely avoidable disaster. Dead: 118 Sailors.

In historical perspective, they seem incompetent, yet own us on the Internet.

Of course, our ruble-enriched Repubs are accomplices in that.

That way we know what to look for

Fox, social media, even chat boards like DU, are not definitive sources of accurate information. Another place you can rely on is your local/state health department.

Example 'Russian disinformation' suggested Italian, other EU medical systems 'under stress':

like everywhere else if it hasn't started already.

...vote to stop this misinformation?

And if Randumb Paul won't, somebody should - well, he should get a visit from his neighbor.

The Soviet Union looked like a mega-threat, a monstrous, coordinated, totalitarian juggernaut marching in lockstep to military and scientific accomplishments with ominous overtones.

In reality, the Soviet Union was inflated like over-proved dough and in the process of collapsing under the weight of its combination of a static, sluggish economy and a rigid, internally toxic bureaucracy.

Russia looks like an authoritarian oligarchy of gigantic malice and power, but in fact it, too, will inevitably collapse under the weight of its internal inequities, disunion, and a population riddled with addiction (possibly the highest alcoholism rate in the world) and an uncontrolled coronavirus pandemic.

They cannot control their coronavirus spread because they cannot admit it exists... to do so would be to pop the propaganda bubble and crack the structure of their authoritarian control.

All the rest of the world really needs to do is stand back, protect ourselves from the flailing malice and propaganda attacks, and let them complete their descent into chaos.

A lot of wonderful, blameless, gallant Russian people will die in the process.

sadly,
Bright

Russia. But that won't work for long. He will eventually be forced to confront it just like the Chinese were. This is a global problem and Russia certainly won't be immune.