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Russian meddling may or may not have had an impact on the outcome of the, but Russian President has definitely succeeded in one thing: He has infected the with the same collective paranoia about the threat from an external enemy and the fifth column, which Russia has been suffering from for years. Just like much of Europe these days (and two decades ago), the US is succumbing to rabid illiberalism and a significant chunk of the movement against US President is part of that process, not a bulwark against it.
The ', which the Kremlin's propaganda has managed to implant in the minds of millions of Russians, is now very much part of the American psyche - particularly on the anti-Trump side. Designing programmes karl gerstner pdf to word. The media's favourite buzzword these days is 'war'. It is being shouted at every corner by the likes of MSNBC's anchor Rachel Maddow, who the disappearance of reporter's question from the White House transcript of the Trump-Putin press conference 'a form of information warfare' and hate-mongering lobbyist Molly McKew, who dubbed the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails a '. There is even talk about war beyond 'information warfare'. In one surreally apocalyptic piece for Politico, McKew wrote about an Estonian military officer's dream about a bloody battle with the Russians in the streets of Tallinn, while Newsweek warned that NATO ' with Russia. A reader's letter by the Chicago Tribune declared that the US is in fact 'at war with Russia'. This war-themed delirium is quite dangerous because hawks in the US and Russia desperately need a perpetual escalation to prove their point: that the other side is inherently aggressive and measures need to be taken in that regard.
This, in turn, leads to the degradation of democracy and could potentially provoke a real conflict. When you convince the entire population of a country that it is at war - even if, truly, there is none in sight - demands for democratic procedure, due process, deliberation and nuance vanish into thin air. The Kremlin's propaganda has succeeded in achieving that over and over again, like it did in 2014, when it persuaded most Russians and Crimeans that the annexation of the peninsula is an act of defence against the existential threat posed by Ukrainian nationalists and their Western backers. Now, the US has been sucked into the whirlpool of collective hysteria and it is gradually adopting Stalin-esque language of 'espionage' and 'foreign agents'. The use of this new rhetoric was particularly spectacular in the case of Maria Butina - an unregistered Russian lobbyist who liaised between the National Rifle Association (NRA) and Russian Senator Aleksandr Torshin.
The latter has been trying to replicate the NRA on Russian soil as part of the Kremlin's campaign to promote conservative values. On the other hand, as follows from, he hoped to revive Russo-American relations after the election of Donald Trump by establishing a backchannel of communication with the new administration via NRA. At least for now, it appears that Butina has been involved in what thousands of Americans are doing all around the world - notably in Russia and neighbouring countries - trying to establish links with like-minded political forces and influence the local political process. Reading Butina's indictment, you won't find anyone stealing classified information, adopting false identities, employing sophisticated spying equipment or doing anything that feels remotely illegal, apart from not registering as a foreign agent under the 1938 Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) - a badly outdated anti-Nazi legislation. More recently, the Kremlin pointed to FARA when it was criticised for adopting a foreign agent law and using it to persecute independent monitoring elections or defending political activists in Russia. Yet, Butina was charged not even under FARA, but under subsequent Cold War era legislation that applies vaguely worded terms such as 'espionage-like activities' inviting for a great deal of arbitrariness in delivering judgement. Of course Putin must now be feeling completely vindicated for reviving the Stalin-era phraseology, now that his adversary is using it infinitely more frequently than he could have ever allowed himself in Russia.