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This is why the "just telling the truth" model of propaganda works so effectively against the US. No need to lie when your adversary does.

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Russia arresting peaceful protesters is bad, and should be condemned. But the US State Dept is not the best entity to do that.

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"Look what <insert political enemy> did." "You did that last week/you support regimes that do that/you enable that through regime change."

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The US does do a number of things better than e.g. Russia, but lying about their own conduct isn't a good way to demonstrate it.

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In fact it's a terrible technique - one that goes a long way towards worsening global fatigue with hypocritical US grandstanding.

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