Russian media are describing protests in Los Angeles over immigration crackdowns and the deployment of the National Guard as "fighting, violence, and provocations." Some suggest a conspiracy is behind the demonstrations, while one compares it to "a war zone."
  • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Because they’ve been working to stir dissent in the US and it’s been their playbook since the late 90s

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

    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 sectariangroups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.

    • Doom@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      1·
      20 hours ago

      I actually thought this was known since like before. I think the USSR had a plan on the US that hinged on attacking race relations

      • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        20 hours ago

        I feel like it was probably more known when that book came out, but as social media basically enabled the KGB to do this cheap as fuck most people forgot, and the amount of people connecting “russia interfering with elections” to “russia attempting entire gameplan to destabilize the west over years and years” dropped drastically