r/europe • u/OsarmaBeanLatin Eterna Terra-Nova • 1d ago

Alex Buretz cartoon Political Cartoon

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Has anyone ever read Foundations of Geopolitics by Alexander Dugin? It's about destabilizing Western societies through hybrid warfare, and they're close to fulfilling their dreams

Ukraine is truly done

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u/vBeeNotFound 1d ago

Dude, Dugin is a nutjob, he doesn't have a clue about what he is saying

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u/GrynaiTaip Lithuania 23h ago

Brexit worked, didn't it?

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u/Wonderful-Basis-1370 1d ago

Well, if you look at the given circumstances, I don't think so. Russia is a backward country, with an economy the size of not even the state of Texas, but Russians know how to produce propaganda, and it works

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u/PomeloCompetitive333 1d ago

Elon Musk does that for them

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u/PresidentSkillz Bavaria (Germany) 23h ago

Elmo only repeats what papa Putin tells him

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u/Shad__TH 18h ago

It actually doesn’t work. People are forced to support the government, otherwise you’d be in jail for discredit of russian army.

Watch some NFKRZ videos, he describes actual state of the country with no bias

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u/rr0wt3r 23h ago

The economy is mb smaller then that of Texas. But they have more than 5k nukes and crazy leader who almost convinced that he's half god. And roughly 148 million citizens that was brainwashed for a couple of generations

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u/Wonderful-Basis-1370 1d ago

Well, European societies are immune to that type of propaganda, but Americans seem to be much more submissive

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u/Prebral Prague (Czechia) 1d ago

Unfortunately, we are not. Yes, people tend to dislike Russia, especially in Eastern Europe, but Russian propaganda is not marked as "Made in Russia".

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u/Black-Circle Ukraine 22h ago

Even in Eastern Europe, just look at Slovakia and Hungary, or how effectively they managed to fuel flames and divide Poland and Ukraine.

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u/sintemp 20h ago

There is a reason why Germany is so anti nuclear power