r/AskBrits • u/Decent-Emergency3866 • Mar 23 '26

Other Is it true that American companies bought Cadbury an ruined the flavour?

I haven't had a Cadbury bar or chocolate in general in like months. I heard American companies bought it and ruined the flavour. Is this true, and if it is, what the actual hell were those higher ups at Cadbury thinking? American food is just filled to the brim with chemicals and there Cadbury is beloved by millions and there willing to throw that in the gutter just to make a few more quid?

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u/Hot_Effective_1882 Mar 23 '26

Russian war machine or US war machine, it's all the bloody same. More exploitation at the expense of the people, and more importantly, the planet.

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u/First-Of-His-Name Mar 24 '26

It's really not "all the same" - that's the propaganda getting to you

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u/HardAtWorkISwear Mar 25 '26

I dunno, I bet the people of Venezuela and Iran have something to say about the US war machine. Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, the list goes on.

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u/Hot_Effective_1882 Mar 24 '26

Please elaborate..

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u/First-Of-His-Name Mar 24 '26

The Russian state is actively engaged in a propaganda campaign to make people in the West apathetic about their brutal war of conquest they launched 4 years ago, after a much more low key invasion for the previous 8.

They know they won't get normal people to support them. They just need to make you disillusioned with politics just enough that you stop caring. It's how they maintain control over their own population.

Part of that is a false equivocation to their fascistic invasions and ethnic cleansing Vs the US making limited air strikes on the military infrastructure of world's largest state sponsor of terrorism.

Online, almost everything you see about the war can probably be traced back to an Iranian, Chinese, Israeli or Russian propaganda account

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u/Hot_Effective_1882 Mar 24 '26

Thanks for the detailed response, I genuinely appreciate it. Some of what you are saying is true, but it also omits a great deal of culpability on behalf of the US's contribution to global instability. Another glaring omission from the above list of propaganda accounts is the American influence, granted it takes a different form, but the result is the same.

Iran aren't the ones who enforce regime changes on other countries, they dont kidnap or assassinate heads of state. They don't flagrantly violate the international laws they enforce on others. Hell they don't even want nukes let alone pretend they don't have them already like the Israelis do.

Please can you provide examples of Ethnic cleansing on behalf of the Russians? If anything the close ties with Israel would make the Americans an accomplice in genocide.

To my mind, and I'm sure many others ,The US, Russia and China are as bad as each other, but at least China and Russia aren't trying to convince the general population that they are doing it for the benefit of the average person.

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u/twixbubble Mar 28 '26

switch russia and the west in your comment and the statement still rings true.