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> Do you not also think the West understands how Russian society works and how it can be broken?

Authoritarian societies and dictatorships are much harder to influence, let alone break, because they're glued together by fear and the media in them aren't reporting freely. The West also has barely any influence on North Korea. Russia is also well-guarded against foreign influencing campaigns. There is no equivalence between Western countries and dictatorships in that respect.

" I find it interesting how we're ignorant of our own propaganda activities in other countries. For example, in the UK we have a dedicated army unit [1] that: "

No Western countries has attack and annexed a country within idk 60 years?

Yes, we understand how the Russian society works. Or, rather, how it does not work.

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Maybe not completely annexed, but we did attack and occupy Afghanistan and Iraq.