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Putin employs useful idiots to carry out his agenda of discrediting democratic states and sowing chaos throughout the free world via a robust disinfo and misinfo campaign.

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While at home, Putin has stated: “‘I make sure I get my vaccinations in time, before the flu season starts’ and scolded Russian parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids: ‘They endanger the lives of their own children,’” he’s pushed a diff message for the audience abroad.

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In the United States, via dis/misinfo apparatus, Putin “has worked hard to encourage Americans to see vaccinations as dangerous and federal health officials as malevolent. The threat of autism is a regular theme of this anti-vaccine campaign.”

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