The real conspiracy

 

It was long assumed that Russia would try to destabilize the United States by weaponizing the Latino population in the Southwest. Or even the Blacks. Instead, they weaponized the far right and conspiracist milieux through social media! I don´t think anyone saw that coming. It was a master stroke. After all, the relevant conspiracy theories (or - in some cases - conspiracy truths) are very similar to the worldview of the Russian nationalists themselves. Indeed, they might even have common origins, in so far as they can be traced back historically with any confidence.

However, there is another possible vector for Russian destabilization. *As far as we know, the conspiracy theory that Trump colluded with Russia in 2015-16 may have been planted by Putin´s intelligence service*. Its purpose was to be picked up by the Democrats, thereby creating political pandemonium in the America. If this scenario is correct (I blogged about it before), the Russians *really* made a master move. Meanwhile, vested Western interests corrupted themselves with Russian oil money (not to mention the gas and the uranium). 

Win - win - win for the Russian Federation. Let´s hope they are worse at fighting wars of attrition than they are at propagandizing social-media consumers and buying off metropolitan elites...