principal goals of the Kremlin’s

The Kremlin’s information manipulation and interference efforts against the United States and NATO began long before its second invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. While many Russian FIMI efforts today focus on degrading global support for Ukraine, the principal goals of the Kremlin’s influence efforts have been, and remain, much wider. They are to undermine public support for core Western institutions, exacerbate domestic political differences, undermine existing alliances, and facilitate an expanding Russian sphere of global influence that the United States and its allies are too paralyzed to prevent. Indeed, from the Potemkin villages created in 1787, to the 1903 Tsarist secret police forgery known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to the Soviet Union’s blending of revolutionary agitation and propaganda (agitprop), the Kremlin’s tactics of deception, fabrications, and proxy สล็อต เว็บตรง