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[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 6 points 14 hours ago

The old American playbook was to ally with some local elites and then use media, secret service and economic support to bring them into power. Military force and hardcore sanctions were a tool used, if that did not work.

Russia prefers to use military force to force other countries into doing what they want.

China seems to work mainly with economic pressure, corruption and secret servcie work to set up favroable local elites. Their media game is not as good as the US, but TikTok is a clear sign that they are working on it. So far hard force is pretty rarer.

To me China looks a lot more like the old US playbook. They know the Russian one is not as good, as they saw European Empires collapse by using it.

[-] heresy@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

Russia does not prefer military force. They do just as much meddling as the USA does and one might even say they do it better.

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