THREAD: “Low-Level” Collusion Is Still Collusion (1/10) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/low-l…
Amid all the news this week about American foreign policy, it was easy to miss some important nuggets about Russia’s involvement in UK’s Brexit campaign. (2/10) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/low-l…
Emails obtained by multiple British outlets show that Russian diplomats cultivated a relationship with Arron Banks, one of Brexit’s biggest funders, and one of his top aides. (3/10) theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
The relationship included meetings, a trip to Moscow, and offers of extremely lucrative business opportunities. (4/10) theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
Banks actually admitted on Brexit booster (and Trump friend and campaign surrogate) Nigel Farage’s show on Monday that there may have been collusion “at a low level” between Russia and the Brexit and Trump campaigns. (5/10) theguardian.com/politics/blog/…
It’s part of a larger pattern of connections between Russia and Brexit, including Russian bots and trolls during the election and meetings between Farage and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (6/10) theguardian.com/world/2017/nov…
The campaign is also connected to the Kremlin through the ubiquitous Cambridge Analytica, which worked on Brexit and has myriad ties of its own to the Russian government. (7/10) theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
Russia’s meddling with Brexit shows many of the same hallmarks as their meddling in the 2016 presidential election. (8/10) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/low-l…
It’s not just the bots and trolls or the shared goal of destabilizing Western alliances; it’s also the business offers, which the Kremlin has used to great effect to sway politicians throughout Eastern and Central Europe. (9/10) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/low-l…
The more we learn, the clearer it becomes that the investigation needs to continue—and, with the 2018 midterms less than five months away, that we need to start figuring out how to better protect American democracy. (10/10) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/low-l…
