Comment by jampekka

6 days ago

In Finnish news currently whenever anything bad happens, the first suspicion is a conspiracy throry about Russian involvement. The press is in sort of a war propaganda mode.

And if you mention this, you're an instant suspect of taking part in a Russian disinformation campaign.

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guappa  17 hours ago

In sweden a while ago they ran news about a "russian spy whale".

It's actually a whale with some harness, nothing attached to the harness, that has lived around norway and sweden for several years… So in no way connected to ukraine. But the title and the article just look better that way.

alkonaut  5 days ago

> the first suspicion is a conspiracy throry about Russian involvement.

Would you agree that this suspicion is a good base hypothesis for most forms of suspected sabotage?

preisschild  5 days ago

> the first suspicion is a conspiracy throry about Russian involvement

Its not war propaganda when there is actually a lot of proven "hybrid warfare" being conducted by Russia. This fits perfectly in their MO

  • itsoktocry  5 days ago

    >conducted by Russia

    Conducted by everyone, including the US and the west (in fact, I'm positive that we are the best at it).

    • benterix  5 days ago

      The closest what I can call it is whataboutism. Russia is actively trying to provoke the West in various ways. The most that West is doing is helping Ukraine to defend itself. We are not gathering poor immigrants into planes and transporting them to borders with Finland, Poland etc. instructing them to push their way to the other side. We are not sending inflammable materials via commercial airplanes. And we are not killing Russian spies in Moscow like they did with Lytvynenko.

      As for Putin being upset with the West helping Ukraine: they can stop it at any moment. It's enough they stop attacking Ukraine and go home, as simple as that.

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    • preisschild  5 days ago

      > Conducted by everyone, including the US and the west

      No we don't unless you think helping a victim defend against an aggressor is on the same level

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simion314  5 days ago

Exactly comrade, same when a personality that opposes Putin is assassinated on Putin's birthday all non Russians start with conspiracies when the FSB clearly told us it is a coincidence. Same when critics f Putin die from falling from windows, or when people Putin named traitors get posissoned with nerve gas, tons of consp[conspiracies.

Can;t it be just a coincidence that all this people die and Putin is not a giant criminal? Russians do not like criminals, they would not worship criminals like Stalin, Putin, the Wagner guy

/sarcasm