This comes from a set of Russian tactics to destabilize the US.

[BigBearJohn]

This comes from a set of Russian tactics to destabilize the US.
Video series on the matter: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000006210828/russia-disinformation-fake-news.html?smid=pl-share

If no time to watch all these, just remember the Russian strategy:
1. Look for cracks in the society you can crack further. Emphasize, create mistrust in the country so they cannot get anything done.
2. Create big lies.
3. Wrap that lie around some truth, to make it be debated, eventually accepted by some.
4. Hide the origin so people will keep looking and never find a source.
5. Find the useful idiots to push messages.
6. Deny everything. Even when faced with the truth overwhelmingly. (This is a big "Trump tactic" but in reality, it is very much a Russian Government tactic.)
7. Play the long game. Hold steady, people will forget. As long as you are still there, you look strong.

This was engineered by the KGB, when Putin was in the KGB.
And before the internet it was effective. Now post-internet it is insanely effective.

[roamer65]

1. Here's what we should be doing for starters.

Closing all Russian consulates and the embassy in DC.

Deport ALL Russians without citizenship and without a valid political asylum claim.

Banning RT from any reception in the United States.

Confiscating all assets within the US of high officials in Russian government.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. that's one way to get the GOP out

"Confiscating all assets within the US of high officials in Russian government."

This would gut the Senate, the Executive branch, and make significant holes in the House minority.

[roamer65]

3. Hermit-the Prog for the win! +100000

Follow the money.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. ha! ...

[roamer65]

5. Good one!

How true.

[Grasswire2]

6. Yale holocaust historian Timothy Snyder's 2017 book is our guide to this moment.

"On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century"

Sold out over and over again but still available for $8.

He said that a rising autocrat will exhaust the good people of a land by deploying outrage after outrage.

Sound familiar?

[defacto7]

7. I bought 20 of those and gave them to family and friends.

when it first came out. Great book.

[Grasswire2]

8. I've seen many people say they gifted this book to others.

It's a keeper.

[paleotn]

9. The Russian government, in any of it's forms

has never been a friend of liberal democracy. After a brief hiatus following the break up of the USSR, they're back to their old ways.

[Thekaspervote]

10. Thx for posting.. vital information

[spanone]

11. We see this day in and day out.