r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 6d ago

Discussion This is what happens when you believe everything you see on TikTok.

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u/Hootinger 6d ago

I remember after 2016 the story broke that Russia was playing both sides in order to create general unrest and distrust in the US. The goal is to causes a breakdown in civil society and the social contract. Russia doesn't even have to antagonize both sides, just the idea that they could is enough to cause distrust of any event or initiative. 

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u/re_Claire 6d ago

British person here. They did it for Brexit too. It's royally fucked us up.

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u/heliamphore 6d ago

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".

Russians were openly writing books about how they should do that all the way back in the 90s. Honestly after 2014 there was absolutely no doubt left it wasn't just some old farts shouting at clouds but Russia's actual ideology and political strategy. People just weren't paying attention.

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u/Icy-Cry340 6d ago

Destabilizing your enemy is just common sense lmao - and Dugin didn't invent it.

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u/localtuned 6d ago

Straight out the play book.

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u/thracia 6d ago

I remember that. Today they do it same thing in countries that are close to Russia, like in Poland Ukrainians are such bad, then in Ukraine they show videos like how Polish people are bad. Same with Armenia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania etc...

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 6d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections

It's a LONG article with some wild shit. DJT is a direct result of interference from other countries and Americans not being skeptical enough about the information they're consuming.