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The most salient feature of Russian meddling is playing all sides, both ideologically and in levels of sophistication.

The less-sophisticated efforts are basically misdirection and camouflage. They are intentionally disarming, akin to how their 'strongman' puppets make an effort to bumble and 'accidentally' feed the trolls. Covfefe bigly, if you will.

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And you know they succeeded when they planted such paranoia in the citizens that they start seeing them everywhere.

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Global Russian paranoia would actually be alright. We used to have that in the 80s. Certainly better than global Russian domination by way of stooges like Maduro, Orban, Wagner in Africa, and you-know-who in the US.