They both try to rile conservatives by pushing posts and articles that focus our anger on progressive and globalist policies, which they don’t like, while also trying to offer up Russia and Putin as a defender of traditional values and nationalism. They also push stories designed to increase diplomatic isolationism in the US, trying to increase doubts about our European allies and undermine faith in our foreign policies. Putin also does not like guys like Soros and the aggressive Western diplomacy of recent years which has flipped his border countries out of his control. So he perceives the new populist conservatives that have arisen in the US as naturally sympathetic to him and an avenue through which to manipulate domestic events in the US.

I also think there are shills active elsewhere, including here, in some instances. I see it mainly in exhortations to other posters to “do something” in response to progressive overreaches. I don’t think there are a ton of those posters here but you’ll see sometimes emotional posts asking very generally “when is somebody going to do something,” by which they don’t say so explicitly but they clearly mean take up arms against authorities or progressives etc. I’m generally suspicious of those posts — that there’s a good chance they’re from Russian propaganda shills trying to encourage people to resort to violence by creating the impression that there are people ready to rise up and rebel so as to nudge Americans who are close to the line of taking action to cross it. Some could also just be domestic provocateurs but I think many of them are Russian.

They both try to rile conservatives by pushing posts and articles that focus our anger on progressive and globalist policies, which they don’t like, while also trying to offer up Russia and Putin as a defender of traditional values and nationalism. They also push stories designed to increase diplomatic isolationism in the US, trying to increase doubts about our European allies and undermine faith in our foreign policies. Putin also does not like guys like Soros and the aggressive Western diplomacy of recent years which has flipped his border countries out of his control. So he perceives the new populist conservatives that have arisen in the US as naturally sympathetic to him and an avenue through which to manipulate domestic events in the US.

I also think there are shills active elsewhere, including here, in some instances. I see it mainly in exhortations to other posters to “do something” in response to progressive overreaches. I don’t think there are a ton of those posters here but you’ll see sometimes emotional posts asking very generally “when is somebody going to do something,” by which they don’t say so explicitly but they clearly mean take up arms against authorities or progressives etc. I’m generally suspicious of those posts — that they’re very likely from Russian propaganda shills trying to encourage people to resort to violence by creating the impression that there are people ready to rise up and rebel so as to nudge Americans who are close to the line of taking action to cross it. Some could also just be domestic provocateurs but I think many of them are Russian.

They both try to rile conservatives by pushing posts and articles that focus our anger on progressive and globalist policies, which they don’t like, while also trying to offer up Russia and Putin as a defender of traditional values and nationalism. They also push stories designed to increase diplomatic isolationism in the US, trying to increase doubts about our European allies and undermine faith in our foreign policies. Putin also does not like guys like Soros and the aggressive Western diplomacy of recent years which has flipped his border countries out of his control. So he perceives the new populist conservatives that have arisen in the US as naturally sympathetic to him and an avenue through which to manipulate domestic events in the US.

I also think there are shills active elsewhere, including here, in some instances. I see it mainly in exhortations to other posters to “do something” in response to progressive overreaches. I don’t think there are a ton of those posters here but you’ll see sometimes emotional posts asking “when is somebody going to do something,” by which they don’t say so explicitly but they clearly mean take up arms against authorities etc. I’m generally suspicious of those posts — that they’re very likely from Russian propaganda shills trying to encourage people to resort to violence by creating the impression that there are people ready to rise up and rebel so as to nudge Americans who are close to the line of taking action to cross it. Some could also just be domestic provocateurs but I think many of them are Russian.

They both try to rile conservatives by pushing posts and articles that focus our anger on progressive and globalist policies, which they don’t like, while also trying to offer up Russia and Putin as a defender of traditional values and nationalism. They also push stories designed to increase diplomatic isolationism in the US, trying to increase doubts about our European allies and undermine faith in our foreign policies. Putin also does not like guys like Soros and the aggressive Western diplomacy of recent years which has flipped his border countries out of his control. So he perceives the new populist conservatives that have arisen in the US as naturally sympathetic to him.

I also think there are shills are active elsewhere, including here, in some instances. I see it mainly in exhortations to other posters to “do something” in response to progressive overreaches. I don’t think there are a ton of those posters here but you’ll see sometimes emotional posts asking “when is somebody going to do something,” by which they don’t say it but they clearly mean take up arms against authorities etc. I’m generally suspicious of those posts — that they’re very likely from Russian propaganda shills trying to encourage people to resort to violence by creating the impression that there are people ready to rise up and rebel. They could also just be domestic provocateurs but I think many of them are Russian.

They both try to rile conservatives by pushing posts and articles that focus our anger on progressives while also trying to offer up Russia and Putin as a defender of traditional values and nationalism. They also push stories designed to increase diplomatic isolationism in the US, trying to increase doubts about our European allies and our efforts in the middle east.Putin also does not like guys like Soros and the aggressive diplomacy of recent years which has flipped his border countries out of his control.

I also think their shills are active here in some instances. I see it mainly in exhortations to other posters to “do something.”. I don’t think there are a ton of those posters here but you’ll see sometimes emotional posts asking “when is somebody going to do something,” by which they don’t say it but they clearly mean take up arms against authorities etc. i’m generally suspicious of those posts — that they’re very likely from Russian propaganda shills trying to encourage people by creating the impression that there are people ready to rise up and rebel.