First world countries need to realize that war in the 21st century is not fought with tanks or warplanes and redistribute military spending accordingly.
sydd above said "small, dubious news sites and started popping up which praised Putin so much I thought it was a joke. Same thing happened in conspiracy sites - a few years earlier they content was about UFOs, lizard men, angels etc. and suddenly political articles praising Putin started appearing in them"
I don't think making a better argument had anything to do with the rise of this and it will have very little with pushing it back down.
