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What amazes me is that Americans still talk about the Cold War like you haven't lost it. And without a bullet fired.

Why are questions like this always asked by the media ten years after everyone already knows it's happening?

Wait that's a question? Of course they are doing that.

Russia is also behind man of the far-right parties in europe, like the AfD in germany and the GRN in france. It's old news at this point honestly.

Mom wouldn't let me have ice cream before bed because she's funded by putler

It's actually not Russia, it's all been perpetrated by the oligarch called Shitsherlock, first name No.

They're almost certainly stirring the pot, but the pot was there regardless.

Yeah, it's been happening for a while now and we've known it.

Been obvious to everyone not cashing checks for a while.

I just want to say that saying only right-wing groups are promoted by Kremlin is American-centric (understandable since most audience on the Internet are Americans, but this leads to insularity in discussions). The far-left is also funded and promoted by Kremlin, especially in Europe where many far-left parties are Russia-apologists, and either have lukewarm support or blame Ukraine for being invaded. There is little information if the American far-left are co-opted by Kremlin. The leftist group, in the broadest sense of the word, is nonexistent in the US because of decades of fear mongering that made the group too insignificant to gain media attention. But if we count Jill Stein and the Green Party as left, then we can say some sections of the left have been compromised by Kremlin, because Stein had been hesitant to call Putin a dictator in an interview.

Foundations of Geopolitics was published in 1997 by Aleksandr Dugin. It outlines how Russia can become the world's dominant superpower without warfare. It is taught in Russia's military officers school, Putin keeps a copy in his office, and it is Russia's geopolitical playbook. Dugin is still closely involved with Putin and Russian intelligence, and so was his daughter, who was murdered in a car bombing that was likely meant for him.

Under the section for the United States, it says:

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".

I've always been curious about the sentence ”Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada." What exactly do they mean by "special services?" Clearly they had something already staged in America, most likely human assets. A few years ago they discovered a cell of Russian intelligence moles, and shipped them back. Now we see that they infiltrated white supremacist groups as well, which would fit the description in the book.

And of course our president has ties to Russia going back to Soviet era 1987, and even has a code name. His treason is well-established. He is likely one of the "special services" referred to.

Our intelligence agencies gave been telling ua this since 2016

That's an easy one: Yes.

Well, yes…and it’s been quite obvious for some time now.

I can’t have been the only person who noticed the weird sudden pattern of American Neo-Nazis with hot Russian wives a decade ago.

Russian PSYOP against the US has always been going on.. However since Obama won .. The GOP is allowing it to flourish..

Putin does everything to destabilize the west this way. It is cheaper for him to find idiots to do his dirty work in the west than to attack us.

Yes.

"Startling allegations that the Base’s leader is a Russian spy lead to suggestions that the Kremlin is playing the ‘long game"

Kremlin already won the long game by inserting his doggy as the president of the united states

Yes. They have been for years now. Our far-right are a bunch of fucking idiot assholes, and easily manipulated.

I don't think calling these people spies is the right term anymore, considering who is in the White House right now, and I don't mean Trump.

The Heritage Foundation began influencing U.S. policy starting in the early 80s, which is also around the time political divisions in America started becoming more polarized as standard of living for the middle class began to worsen.

The polarization that began in the 80s has gotten more and more extreme, to the point that now far-right groups are an important part of the current President's voter base. When you look at the destruction and dismantling of the government currently underway by the administration, you have to understand, this is really not an attack on the left/DEI. Their strategy first began decades ago, long before anybody heard of DEI. First it was "multiculturalism," then it was "political correctness," then "wokeness," and now the scapegoat is "DEI."

It's an attack on democracy and individual freedom by people in power with a lot of money, but not a lot of numbers, unless they get a group of people that are divided to fight for them, and keep them divided from "others." Importantly, it's actually very similar to the strategy used by oligarchs in Russia. Russian Nationalists are Putin's biggest supporters, but instead of "DEI," the enemy to Russian Nationalists has long been the influence of Western democracy.

Funny thing is, some of the earliest examples of Russia embracing capitalism after the collapse of the Soviet Union and creating the current government, can be traced to the Heritage Foundation. The first of its kind go between for U.S. and Russia businesses was created by a former Heritage Foundation member, Robert Krieble.

Fellow Heritage Foundation member, Thomas Roe, is quoted as telling Krieble during the mid-1980s, "You capture the Soviet Union, I'm going to capture the States."

According to a 1991 Washington Post article covering a celebration of the official establishment of this business, Russia House, Krieble snuck electronic equipment to dissidents prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The corporation is also privately funded. Officers of its board are Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov; Paul Craig Roberts of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a former treasury assistant secretary; and Dean Booth, an Atlanta lawyer. Businessman Robert Krieble, who donated fax machines, computers and copiers to dissidents in the Soviet Union when "they were illegal," Lozansky said, is one of the financial supporters.

The original founder of the Heritage Foundation was also present at the gathering covered by the Post article.

At the inauguration of Russia House, furnished only with a lectern and radio and television microphones for the ceremony, Paul Weyrich, head of a group called Free Congress, said, "When we first went to the Soviet Union we were considered foolish. But democracy is real. The change is real."

Meanwhile, in the U.S., Roe then went on to create the State Policy Network (SPN), a network of Heritage Foundation affiliate think tanks across all 50 states, to promote Heritage Foundation policy at the state level, but disguise the think tanks as "small government" and "free market" focused.

Now, Putin actually has his own similar think tank for freedom and democracy in Germany While Russian oligarchs have become majority shareholders in Louisiana oil companies, and made donations to House Speaker Mike Johnson's campaign.

It would seem more likely, that rather than Russia playing the long game, Russia joined the Heritage Foundation's long game decades ago, and that modern day Russia under Putin, may actually reflect the Heritage Foundation's test run for the creation of a privatized corporate government.

Speaking through a translator, the Post article also provides an interesting quote from the Mayor of Moscow:

"Russia House is not financed by governments but by private people," Mayor Popov said. "Aid in the form of commercial goods and food should not be the main effort. Aid would be over soon, and all would be as before. We need a free-market economy -- but we don't have people who can run a free market," he said, speaking through a translator. "I told {Treasury} Secretary {Nicholas} Brady that many Americans will sign treaties with ministers -- who then will disappear. Trade should be with private individuals and businesses."

One of the defining characteristics of this era is the legacy media from time to time timidly noting the possibility of something that's been recognized as at least nearly certain down here in the trenches for months or even years.

Of course Russia is co-opting far right groups to attack western democracies. Any honest person who's been paying attention should've figured that out by now - it's not like they've been subtle about it or anything. And it's been commonly recognized for months now (and less commonly asserted for years).

But at this late date, along comes the Guardian, hesitantly saying, "Um... well... you know... it might just barely be sort of possible that maybe...