Russians must be laughing their asses off at how easy it is to abuse democracy.
Obviously, because Brexit was just fueled by lies and propaganda spread on Meta platforms and twitter to fuel enough anti-european sentiment to leave the Union. They appealed to their sense of “greatness” with disinformation in order to separate one of the only nuclear powers there and the most militarily prepared. UKIP gets their money from the same place all the far-right groups all over the world do. The Heritage Foundation. That’s what all the talk about invading Canada and Greenland is about, split NATO forces so there’s less support for Ukraine.
Ah ok, so Brexit was caused by Russians now. I thought it was caused by the people who voted to leave the EU.
A couple of points:
- Yes, Russia was involved in the social media propaganda:
- The voters had precious little idea what it was they were actually voting on:
Brexit was one of several military psychological operations to undermine western political power under CambridgeAnalytica / SLC.
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like/transcript
And yes, the russians were all in on it.
The Leave campaigns were largely funded with Russian money, and there were massive pro-brexit disinformation campaigns by Russia on social media. So, not caused by, but massively aided by Russians. Very much like Trump - both projects designed to cause division in Western countries.
It is considered widely as one of Putins biggest successes in driving a wedge into Europe. Remember how much money of the “Leave” campaign came from Russian sources.
