Propaganda can be a tool, a technique, a process and yes, a weapon. It’s used by everyone. Governments, political movements, corporations, media, religions, advocacy groups, and individuals. The US uses it. Canada uses it. The UK and Australia use it. Businesses use it. Private citizens use it.

If using propaganda disqualifies someone as an ally, then the US has never was an ally to anyone and had an ally and no country has ever been a friend to another. As long as humans have tried to influence opinions, propaganda has existed. That’s just reality.

By that standard, even internal political campaigning would count as hostile action. Which is obviously absurd.

For example: Elon Musk openly encourages Europeans to vote for extremists and attacks moderate political solutions. He’s far from the only American doing this. So hearing accusations of “foreign propaganda” coming from the US is, frankly, ironic.

What’s really interesting in the current situation is this:

People are suddenly calling influence from the UK, Canada, and Australia “propaganda” countries that have admired the US for decades, adopted large parts of US culture, and literally fought, bled, and died alongside Americans when the US asked for help.

At the same time, many of those same people downplay or ignore propaganda from China and Russia countries whose explicit goal is to weaken the US and reshape it into something more like themselves.

If I were China or Russia, my primary objective would be simple: Use propaganda to divide Americans. Help elect the most incompetent and corrupt leadership possible. Convince people that longtime allies are enemies. Wrap it all in slogans about “making the country great again”.

You are being played but you have no idea by who.