It still kinda of amazes me everything about Putin pre 2015 or so has been memory holed. Like the whole fact that he had a really close working relationship with Obama or his general role in liberalization projects and stabilizing markets for the US.
that astroturfing campaign to make putin look super cool was one of the weirdest fucking things i've ever seen on the internet. A lot of people fell for it, came out of no where, blew up on every corner of the internet and it worked extremely well till russiagate happened. Genuinely a interesting moment of internet history that is almost all forgotten today.
oh yeah I don't think it was all astroturfing but I do believe in the start it was at least some-what. It was popular on 4chan and reddit which are both super ripe for astroturfing but once the hiveminds all agree that they like it, their job is done. I could be completely wrong, but it just seemed that way looking back at it because of just how stupid it was and how popular it really was. i can't say for sure though
The conflict in Ukraine really riled up NATO, and then the libs talked about Russiagate on TV for 4 years straight. Honestly the EU/USA are mostly just angry Russia is asserting itself as a major power again after they went through so much trouble to smash the Soviets in the Cold War.
All true, and I'd like to mention that Russia started buying weapons from China more and also developing their own / buying less from the US. All related no doubt
It still kinda of amazes me everything about Putin pre 2015 or so has been memory holed. Like the whole fact that he had a really close working relationship with Obama or his general role in liberalization projects and stabilizing markets for the US.
He was the cool epic guy who rode horses and did Judo and most people thought he was #amazeballs
that astroturfing campaign to make putin look super cool was one of the weirdest fucking things i've ever seen on the internet. A lot of people fell for it, came out of no where, blew up on every corner of the internet and it worked extremely well till russiagate happened. Genuinely a interesting moment of internet history that is almost all forgotten today.
I don't even think it was astroturfing, just people saw photos of Shirtless Putin on a horse or throwing people around a Dojo and thought he was cool,
oh yeah I don't think it was all astroturfing but I do believe in the start it was at least some-what. It was popular on 4chan and reddit which are both super ripe for astroturfing but once the hiveminds all agree that they like it, their job is done. I could be completely wrong, but it just seemed that way looking back at it because of just how stupid it was and how popular it really was. i can't say for sure though
Still a thing in like, a couple manga I've heard of the past few years, where Putin is a big buff macho dude who wants to ride stuff like this one which is a Putin Isekai where he wants to ride a Dragon I think as well as being the antagonist of Golloseum
what the fuck ?? lol
I still remember him, in the early 2000s, giving a speech in the German parliament and getting standing ovations in the end.
That would be great as some agitprop
This is the full speech if you're interested.
Why did he become such a boogieman? Were we always at war with eurasia?
The conflict in Ukraine really riled up NATO, and then the libs talked about Russiagate on TV for 4 years straight. Honestly the EU/USA are mostly just angry Russia is asserting itself as a major power again after they went through so much trouble to smash the Soviets in the Cold War.
All true, and I'd like to mention that Russia started buying weapons from China more and also developing their own / buying less from the US. All related no doubt
He literally came to my school in 2001 and gave a speech/took questions with George Bush.