To be truthful this feels like the culmination of a decade or more of hybrid information and influence war to destabilise and sow doubt and blunt possible retaliations with shitloads of cash..
Brexit, Trump, Catalonia + Scottish independence, GOP/NRA, ex-Prime Ministers of multiple Euro nations placed on the boards of Rosneft, buying Premier league football teams, Skripal, Tory party and on and on and on.
Or Putin's got something terminal and doesn't give a fuck.
I don’t know if it was his plan all along but it gave him the space to do it. When you’ve got the right wing populists blaming the Ukraine for being invaded on TV and social media, you realise the money went quite a long way.
To be truthful this feels like the culmination of a decade or more of hybrid information and influence war to destabilise and sow doubt and blunt possible retaliations with shitloads of cash..
Brexit, Trump, Catalonia + Scottish independence, GOP/NRA, ex-Prime Ministers of multiple Euro nations placed on the boards of Rosneft, buying Premier league football teams, Skripal, Tory party and on and on and on.
Or Putin's got something terminal and doesn't give a fuck.