Who will win? RuZZia? Iran? China?
“’Russia, Iran, China All Seek to Shape US Election, Officials Say”
“Americans are said to be involved wittingly or unwittingly
Report suggests Russia favors Trump, Iran opposes him”
“Russia, China and Iran are all recruiting Americans to spread propaganda advancing their interests ahead of the US presidential election, American intelligence officials said Monday.
Some US citizens have been knowingly helping foreign governments “seed, promote and add credibility to narratives that serve the foreign actors’ interests,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Monday in its latest update on election security. Others in the US have been duped into aiding the foreign actors, according to the report.”
Some US citizens have been knowingly helping foreign governments “seed, promote and add credibility to narratives that serve the foreign actors’ interests
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We know that is true here on this thread.
The Bloomberg article linked at comment #4382 is well worth reading. It includes sentences like the quote below which call attention to likely Russian trolls such as people making pro Russia/Putin comments here at FR.
“Moscow is leveraging Russia-based influence-for-hire firms with skills to complicate tracing efforts back to their source as well as being more nimble and having fewer bureaucratic hurdles than government agencies, according to the US officials. The firms have created influence platforms that discreetly engage Americans and tailor content while masking Russia’s involvement.”
If you click on the names of some of the most avid pro Russia/Putin commenters you will see that a number joined FR soon after Alexander Dugin’s book on how to control the West and eventually the world came out in 1997, when FR began its life. Other such commenters joined immediately before or after Putin’s move on Crimea and eastern Ukraine in 2014. To many, Dugin is referred to as Putin’s Brain. Putin has made his book required reading in Russian military colleges and also recommended for reading at high schools.
At this Wikipedia site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopoliticsthere are 21 bullet pointed items explaining the method for Putin to follow to conquer the west and control the world. Item 20, below concerns us directly in the United States. Putin has already achieved some of the first points listed for application to Europe and the US. Others target the Far East and the rest of the world.
“* In the Americas, United States, and Canada:
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.[9]”
Does this sound like life in the USA for the past decade? Also some of the biggest conflicts on FR?
The Bloomberg article also comments on Iranian and Chinese possible actions in the US as well as the kind of thinking that motivates their actions.