• moriquende@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m not sure what the things you say have to do with anything? Trump is an individual who got voted into the presidency largely thanks to social media manipulation, which is known to often originate from Russian bot and troll farms. There’s no reason to believe the USA being rich (which only means a few individuals and corporations are very rich, btw) or having the largest army could have prevented it.

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      1 day ago

      social media manipulation

      Biggest social media are all owned by private american corporations in bed with the government. Same as before to me it doesn’t sound much likely that the russian government can successfully manipulate them.

      There’s no reason to believe the USA being rich (which only means a few individuals and corporations are very rich, btw) or having the largest army could have prevented it.

      Having the largest army doesn’t mean they have more guys running around in a field. USA has the most technological advanced army in the world, they have the biggest mass surveillance network, more military facilities around the world, more satellites in orbit and they top everyone else in cyberwarfare.