No sooner have they got the money together to get their online newsfeed up and running again than Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty are peddling conspiracy theories about Donald Trump and, er, the government of Serbia.
RFE/RL was of course the old CIA propaganda broadcaster during the Cold War. Did it do "a good job" encouraging the people of Russia to stand up to communism? I'll let others be the judge of that - except to say that trying to persuade people to swap socialism for liberalism is obviously something of a fool's errand, both practically and ideologically.
Now of course though we're through the looking glass. After the Cold War, the Deep State effectively went into business for itself, except that it was still selling "liberal" capitalism and what in Britain is effectively Blairite "centrist dad" politics. And even after Trump tried to clip its wings, drain the swamp, shine a light into the darkness, and so on... it turned out that the only thing he could do was try to "de-fund" it.
And look how that turned out! The worst sort of "blowback"!
But then that is the sort of problem you can expect to run into when you only have two political parties, one of which is completely evil, and one of which only cares about money.
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