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Judging by America’s waning influence on the international stage, it’s safe to say the US State Department has seen brighter days–what was once before the Empire’s main instrument in sowing chaos elsewhere in the aims of maintaining an imperialist presence has now mostly become a mere shell of its old self, ever-hopeless in its constant search of identity. The internet presented itself as a fresh new opportunity for America’s intelligence bodies to make short work of their thorniest propaganda projects — as endeavors of foreign influence and outward expansion still don’t hold unanimous sway over the public — so social media naturally became a battleground for these efforts to be undertaken–however the future may yet spell resounding failure, and it may be due to the very nature of the medium.
As would be reasonable to expect, this analysis is purely speculative–still, there’s plenty to point towards active intent by intelligence bodies within America to steer public discourse in a certain direction while failing miserably to do so in our most-populated digital spaces. The most recent outing of such an effort is what’s happening in Cuba in what looks to be yet another chapter in the country’s long-troubled relationship with…
