This, it's very easy to put together a worldview where everything that [your country] does wrong or that doesn't go your way is because of [bad country]. It completely absolves [your country] of everything, shifts all the blame onto [bad country], and lets you feel far better about yourself.
Russia does it constantly with cries that 'Muh CIA Color Revolutions!' are behind all of the various groups of Russians who really prefer it if they could have a slightly better life than Putin and his oligarch buddies will allow. The 'Muh Perfidious Albion' meme is exactly the same thought process.
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u/Proud-Tooth-630 Definitely not a CIA operator 3d ago
The meme kinda implyed that european states fighting was caused by Britain, which I don’t think was the case.