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I always like to ask, "who wins?". News gets out that Russia is poisoning people critical of it. Who wins? Do they achieve their goals of silencing criticism? Obviously people think negatively of them and think twice before visiting the country. So, who wins?

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Good question. In my eyes Russia indeed has really no motive to do this. On the other hand, given the constant demonization of Russia over the last years, this perfectly fits that narrative.

But if the goal was this demonization of Russia, then yeah, that's a lot of motive right there.

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