This isn't some long-term conspiracy aimed America. It's the playbook of the Soviet and now Russian political machine. What's changed is that the Internet has allowed them to apply the tactics readily outside their traditional geopolitical sphere. But these tactics were refined for generations domestically and in their satellite states, and continue unabated there.

You're not actually blaming this phenomenon on Russia, right?

Look no further than the military-industrial-Congressional complex. Congress and their friends own media, food, weapons and intelligence, finance, etc...

Are you just throwing out random buzzwords to derail the conversation?

Besides the US, these tactics are being put on full display across Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine. This is besides the strategy in Montenegro, which just seems to be kill the political leaders.

Yes, previous commenter is doing just that. It's called whataboutism, and it's one of Trumputin's favorite distractions.

More on this in "New lies for old" by Anatoliy Golitsyn, Solzhenitsyn's 200 years together.

This is like a horoscope. Everything in that article can be attributed to nearly every western nation (at any time since he said it). Ok, there's an ideological war...which there has always been. There's always been a conflict between those who want a capitalistic and more egalitarian economic system. Looks a lot like Russia already conceded that one.

34 years ago ? he seems to be stuck in a world that no longer exists