I think Russia is just cultivating something there. That is why they gave Spencer that Russian bride and allow him into their RT and Sputniknews networks.
As Dugin wrote in his 1997 book:
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists”. 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.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
I was not familiar with Dugin until just now, but I believe it’s irrelevant.
Why?
I’m less concerned about forces without than forces within.
Machiavelli may be considered the father of political science and have written on the topic of “manipulation by division,” but it was American Edward Bernays which really brought the concept of manipulation of the public - particularly through polarization - to the forefront of American shadow government.
We live in this environment today, nearly 100 years hence, most people blissfully-unaware that they’re being manipulated...
...and the irony of this ComPost article is not lost on this man (particularly given that I’m writing a speech about the topic at-hand this very week).
If the Russians truly wanted to destabilize this country, it would foment unrest against the government itself, not empowering the current paradigm controlling our population by fomenting divisions already being used to great effect.
The Russian narrative gets old, both from the left & the right. It, too, (ironically and most-pertinent) is a tool of manipulation.