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Alex Finley

Feb 11 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

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Russia has been providing indirect support to right-wing groups in the US. Those of us who follow this long suspected it. I also have a hunch we will eventually uncover more direct connections. See next tweet 1/
news.yahoo.com/us-intelligenc…

@john_sipher

.@john_sipher, @AshaRangappa_, and I wrote about this way back before the 2020 election, with some specific examples of Russia providing material support to right-wing groups in Europe. Why wouldn't they attempt the same thing in the US? 2/
justsecurity.org/69024/why-the-…

Destabilize from within. That's the mantra. 3/

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