It's not, and westerners who think they agree don't actually agree, they are just edgy. It's hard to even explain what it would mean to internalize this belief system.
Let me try. We're you ever on an amateur IT conference? Comicon? Some sports event? Would it ever occur to you to assume some government is secretly behind it? When the Jehova witnesses or scientologists knock on your door - which government is financing them to do it and why? After all people don't do things for free.
It’s just the reductive pedantry that’s so popular on the internet. A CIA operative is the agent of a foreign government, therefore a foreign agent.
A Doctors Without Borders medic is an agent of a foreign organization, therefore a foreign agent.
Therefore CIA and DWB are essentially the same thing. Bonus points if you can find one case where a DWB volunteer also had ties to the CIA, which would totally expose the two orgs as being exactly the same in all ways at all times.
For some reason people just can’t resist reductionism.
That's a 90 minute video. Even at double speed that's still 45 minutes. you'll have to make your point mire succinctly if you want to get your point across.
"That's not what people meant". No, people are pointing out holes in your reductionism.
Russians actually believe both Majdans were CIA. Putin actually believed Ukrainians won't resist the invasion because all the protests were staged by USA. It's inconceivable to them that a civil society is a thing.
NGOs in Russia ALL have to register as foreign agents. Including the ones who organize comicons etc.
This is the reason I told you you don't actually understand.
As for your video I don't have that much time for propaganda, care to summarize it?
Let me try. We're you ever on an amateur IT conference? Comicon? Some sports event? Would it ever occur to you to assume some government is secretly behind it? When the Jehova witnesses or scientologists knock on your door - which government is financing them to do it and why? After all people don't do things for free.