The recent gushing from the Democrat media complex about the North Korean charm offensive at the Olympics was an eye opener. If only those reporters hadn't fallen so easily for it.
Maybe they are still obsessed with the Russia collusion narrative. If so, they should read the Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community. See excerpt below:
Russia and Influence Campaigns
Influence operations, especially through cyber means, will remain a significant threat to US interests as they are low-cost, relatively low-risk, and deniable ways to retaliate against adversaries, to shape foreign perceptions, and to influence populations. Russia probably will be the most capable and aggressive source of this threat in 2018, although many countries and some no nonstate actors are exploring ways to use influence operations, both domestically and abroad.
We assess that the Russian intelligence services will continue their efforts to disseminate false information via Russian state-controlled media and covert online personas about US activities to encourage anti-US political views. Moscow seeks to create wedges that reduce trust and confidence in democratic processes, degrade democratization efforts, weaken US partnerships with European allies, undermine Western sanctions, encourage anti-US political views, and counter efforts to bring Ukraine and other former Soviet states into European institutions.
- Foreign elections are critical inflection points that offer opportunities for Russia to advance its interests both overtly and covertly. The 2018 US mid-term elections are a potential target for Russian influence operations.
- At a minimum, we expect Russia to continue using propaganda, social media, false-flag personas, sympathetic spokes people, and other means of influence to try to exacerbate social and political fissures in the United States.
Democrats and their media friends are trying hard to "exacerbate social and political fissures in the United States," too. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish them from our enemies.
Meanwhile, when it comes to influencing elections, AmericanThinker.com asks this: Who will influence the 2018 elections more: Russia or Mexico? The made there is that the Russians had minimal influence on our election in 2016, but illegal immigrants from South of the border who voted had a sizable presence in the election.
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9:49 AM 2/14/2018
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