Some have worried that Donald Trump is in cahoots with Vladimir Putin, although sources close to the Kremlin allege Russia could be after something even bigger — like using Trump to destabilize the United States:
Konstantin Sivkov, who had served as a strategist for the Russian General Staff between 1995 and 2007, was keen to tell me all about the theory, which the chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, had set out in 2013 as a strategic vision for wars of the future. "Hybrid warfare," Sivkov began, "relies on the use of the enemy's own internal resources against him." Against an adversary with "a wobbly political base" and a "fractured moral core," Russia could use disinformation, cyber attacks, and other means of covert political influence to make the enemy "devour itself from within," Sivkov said. [Time]
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