“Kirill Kalinin was so impactful because he made real relations with journalists, designed to insert the Kremlin’s viewpoint into our national discourse. He didn’t need to pay off journalists or recruit assets. Kalinin’s impact was far more clever: He convinced journalists in Ottawa that they were managing the embassy, when in fact the e…
“Kirill Kalinin was so impactful because he made real relations with journalists, designed to insert the Kremlin’s viewpoint into our national discourse. He didn’t need to pay off journalists or recruit assets. Kalinin’s impact was far more clever: He convinced journalists in Ottawa that they were managing the embassy, when in fact the embassy was managing them.”
I don’t believe it’s necessary to pay journalists when you can simply flatter them. At this point it looks to me that Pugliese has been played and has published russian talking points, maybe actually believing what he’s been fed. We’ve see Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson do the same, and I’d be surprised if either of them are getting money for it. They’re just suckers.
So does the guy need to be tried for foreign interference? I guess not. There’s unfortunately no law against publishing russian garbage.
“Kirill Kalinin was so impactful because he made real relations with journalists, designed to insert the Kremlin’s viewpoint into our national discourse. He didn’t need to pay off journalists or recruit assets. Kalinin’s impact was far more clever: He convinced journalists in Ottawa that they were managing the embassy, when in fact the embassy was managing them.”
I don’t believe it’s necessary to pay journalists when you can simply flatter them. At this point it looks to me that Pugliese has been played and has published russian talking points, maybe actually believing what he’s been fed. We’ve see Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson do the same, and I’d be surprised if either of them are getting money for it. They’re just suckers.
So does the guy need to be tried for foreign interference? I guess not. There’s unfortunately no law against publishing russian garbage.