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Согласно последнему сводному опросу Pew Research, рейтинг доверия Путину и России в мире остаётся крайне низким.



Однако во многих странах рейтинг доверия Трампа ещё ниже. Израиль пока составляет исключение.



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The Nation - старейший прогрессивный журнал. Но, как это случается у альтернативных левых, в отношении к Путину у него обнаружилось слабое место. Главный редактор журнала, Katrina vanden Heuvel, вместе со своим мужем, бывшим профессором Стивеном Коэном - специалисты по России и  путинские "агенты влияния" в полном смысле этого выражения.

The most prominent intellectual apologist for Putin is Stephen F. Cohen, Princeton professor, Russologist for the left-wing Nation. Cohen is a septuagenarian, old-school leftist who has carried on the mental habits of decades of anti-anti-communism seamlessly into a new career of anti-anti-Putinism. The Cohen method is to pick away at every indictment of the Russian regime without directly associating himself with its various atrocities. Is Putin persecuting gays? Well, Cohen wants us to know that various Ukrainians nationalists dislike gays, too. And also Barack Obama’s claim to snub Sochi because of gay rights is probably not on the level. Is Putin bullying and killing journalists? Eh, says Cohen, “Every time a journalist breaks a leg, they say the Kremlin did it.” Accidents happen.
The primary hub of Russian propaganda in the West is Russia Today, an English-language Kremlin-funded propaganda outlet. Joe Pompeo reported last fall how RT has actually acquired a devoted following in the West, in part through relentless viral YouTube sharing of its reports. Cohen, of course, appears regularly on RT. (Is RT biased? Well, he says, so is CNN: “I’m highly suspicious about the narrative I’m getting on CNN. It seems to be the flip side of RT.”)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/pathetic-lives-of-putins-american-dupes.html



Недавно Nation опубликовал "разоблачение" того, что за взломом почты демократов стояли российские хакеры: https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/. Разоблачители - известные ветераны информационных войн во главе с Биллом Бинни.

Разоблачение The Nation высмеивается в статье под названием The Nation Article About the DNC Hack Is Too Incoherent to Even Debunk:

The crux of the whole thing — the opening argument — rests on the fact that, according to “metadata,” the data was transferred at about 22 megabytes per second, which Lawrence and Forensicator claim is much too fast to have been undertaken over an internet connection. (Most connection speeds are measured at megabits per second, not megabytes; 22 megabytes per second is 176 megabits per second.) Most households don’t get internet speeds that high, but enterprise operations, like the DNC — or, uh, the FSB — would have access to a higher but certainly not unattainable speed like that.
http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/08/the-nation-article-about-the-dnc-hack-is-incoherent.html

Однако сообщение The Nation радостно подхватили трампогандисты.

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