Originally Posted by
Rockie_Rapier
It's been argued that such areas as Climate change denial and the Brexit argument were promoted by such Kremlin funded troll farms. With global warming and a weakened Europe both being positions that Russia welcomes.
Yeah, it's very unfortunate that the Russian propaganda has been allowed to have so much influence globally. And I doubt it's in Russia's interest to have more global warming, seeing how many wildfires they had this year. But, since one way of fighting global warming is to reduce the dependency on fossil fuels, which would mean less money for Russia, they have an indirect motivation to support the positions of climate change deniers.
In fact, when it's in its interest, Russia can be against fossil fuels. When those fossil fuels are not extracted in Russia, that is. For example, in 2013 Chevron came to Romania to drill some exploratory wells for shale gas extraction, through hydraulic fracking. Needless to say, Russia didn't like that at all. So, through various channels, they pumped disinformation about the risks of hydraulic fracking. After some large protests at the site where the first wells would have been drilled, which descended into violence, Chevron abandoned the project.