No, that wasn't my intent at all. I was only pointing out that this is not surprising because this is how Putin has always played the information warfare game. It's definitely good to report on it.
not at all. They must have people and a budget, they are going to do their job. The result was very close. It would have been cheap and take little effort. They must have people to estimate the obvious.
By what weird mechanism would people imagine all of them could not do the job they are hired for with their superiors being fine with it?
I'm more surprised that it is the top comment. I may be misreading, but I'm not quite sure how your comment is promoting discussion.
One of the things I find surprising about propaganda is that so many people think they are immune to it but do not ask why it is so effective. I think the obvious bad propaganda is propaganda to make you feel like you are good at recognizing it while enabling more subtle propaganda to sneak in the back door.
