The Russians are fighting a covert war against the west for decades, destabilizing society at every corner. Their biggest success so far was Brexit, but if you see all the rising extremist parties in Europe, they all seem to have a weak spot for Putin for some reason.

In Germany, both the extreme left (BSW) as well as the extreme right (AfD) are Putin apologetist or even open supporter. Both regularly have problems explaining some donations…

Is this their version of MAGA?

We’ve all heard talk about “hybrid warfare” and how Russian intelligence has done some amazing thing in the last decade, but it really is just “promote bad leaders to break democracies abroad”. Statecraft is so much easier when you can pick your own adversaries.

Can we all start interfering in Russian politics to get back at them?

Wow, will no one save us from Russian disinformation!?

Whoops, wrong administration to ask.