🇷🇺 Russia is running an influence operation in plain sight. Fly in every Western grievance influencer, walk them down three polished streets, and have them file dispatches about paradise while X gets carpet-bombed with migrant crime clips from Europe.
This clip is a perfect specimen. Women strutting past Red Square as proof that Moscow is safe and pure, watermarked by a Russian content team. His “candid street footage” is a choreographed shoot, produced, branded and exported for exactly this purpose. The man is posting the brochure and calling it a window.
And what a brochure it is. Russia has roughly one and a half presentable city centres, downtown Moscow and the nice bits of St. Petersburg, spread across a continent spanning eleven time zones. Everything between them is the part the content teams don’t film. That’s why every one of these clips is shot on the same three streets: it’s not a country being shown off, it’s a film set being reused.
The rest of the paradise: largest Muslim population in Europe, millions of Central Asian migrants doing the work, a murder rate several times Western Europe’s, and wife-beating downgraded to a parking ticket in 2017. Over 2,000 women killed by their partners in two years, per Russia’s own women’s organisations.
“Unafraid, unmolested, completely safe.” Sure. Just don’t marry a Russian.
Meanwhile, here’s Europe: two girls dancing in the rain outside an apartment block, filmed by a neighbour through the bushes. No choreography, no content agency, no Red Square backdrop. Just people living their lives, completely unaware they’re supposed to be drowning in decay and despair. That’s the bit the Kremlin can’t manufacture. Spontaneity doesn’t take direction.
One of these clips needed a production company. Europe just needed two girls and some rain.
Gandalv /
@Microinteracti1
Not seeing any migrants, violent Muslim thugs, or drug addicts on the streets of Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺.
All I see is beautiful white women, living their best life. Unafraid, unmolested, & completely safe.
Vladimir Putin knows how to keep his people safe, unlike Western Europe.