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Why do comments like these only pop up on articles that highlight problems in europe? I never see them in the hundreds of articles per month that focus on the US. It's weird because that is exactly the type of comment you used to read from fragile patriotic americans that were unable to handle any criticism back in the early 2000s, but this time from europeans.

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Because social media is currently under MASSIVE attack from Russian trolls. And then there are people doing it for free, because their are easily manipulated or because they think they’d benefit from Russian puppets taking over their country… I wonder on which side you are.

What do you mean? Even if we ignore the "you are with us or with the terrorists" tone of your comment (that kind of prove my point) it still does not make sense. Where are the accusations of Russian bots/dinsfo on articles about American healthcare, or wealth inequality or gun violence in the US? Because those are also subjects that can be exploited by foreign powers in an effort to destabilize the US.

In fact, tons of europeans online love, love to highlight and amplify those exact issues, so I guess they are exploited by russian propaganda too? Or is it only europeans that get to use that as an excuse to deflect criticism and discussion about their internal issues?

The coming EU energy crisis is real.

Read the articles. These aren't Russian trolls. They are well described fundamental problems.

just because we are kind of worried about the winter even with IT wages doesn't make us russian bots?

>Why do comments like these only pop up on articles that highlight problems in europe?

Probably because the US is a net exporter of energy and is not in danger of running out of fuel during the winter like most of Europe is.

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