Team Biden Says Russia Wants To Tilt European Voters Against Ukraine — but Europeans Have More on Their Minds

Foggy Bottom, not for the first time, warns of Moscow’s penchant for propaganda while the bigger picture is lost in the fog.

Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin pool via AP
President Putin at Moscow, October 9, 2023. Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin pool via AP

It might not feel so in the middle of a frosty January, but in Europe election season is already heating up. So are many Europeans’ heating bills, but that’s just a corollary of a bigger story: the war in Ukraine. Washington, meanwhile, is sounding the alarm on the possibility that Russia will conduct “information operations” aimed at swaying public opinion against Ukraine. 

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