Blame everyone and everything but the democrats and their policies, which have been running our cities into the ground for decades.
oh, it must be true!!!
10 March: NYT: Russia Trying to Stoke U.S. Racial Tensions Before Election, Officials Say
Russian intelligence services are trying to incite violence by white supremacist groups to sow chaos in the United States, American intelligence officials said.
By Julian E. Barnes and Adam Goldman; Matthew Rosenberg contributed reporting from Washington, and Sheera Frenkel from San Francisco.
WASHINGTON — The Russian government has stepped up efforts to inflame racial tensions in the United States as part of its bid to influence November’s presidential election, including trying to incite violence by white supremacist groups and to stoke anger among African-Americans, according to seven American officials briefed on recent intelligence.
Russia’s lead intelligence agency, the S.V.R., has apparently gone beyond 2016 methods of interference, when operatives tried to stoke racial animosity by creating fake Black Lives Matter groups and spreading disinformation to depress black voter turnout. Now, Russia is also trying to influence white supremacist groups, the officials said; they gave few details, but one official said federal investigators are examining how at least one neo-Nazi organization with ties to Russia is funded...
Russian operatives are also trying to push black extremist groups toward violence, according to multiple officials, though they did not detail how...
“We see Russia is willing to conduct more brazen and disruptive influence operations because of how it perceives its conflict with the West,” David Porter, a top agent on the F.B.I.’s Foreign Influence Task Force, said last month at an election security conference in Washington.
He added, “To put it simply, in this space, Russia wants to watch us tear ourselves apart.”...
American officials are also examining ties between Russian intelligence and some white supremacist groups, according to an intelligence official...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/politics/russian-interference-race.html