Russia’s cyber campaign of interference in the internal politics of Western democracies has been effective. In election after election, Russia’s favorite candidates and parties were helped by Russian cyber operatives to come to power, or increase their electoral strength: Donald Trump in the United States; Marine Le Pen and her Front National in France; Geert Wilders and his Party of Freedom in the Netherlands; the neo-Fascist AfD in Germany, and others. It now emerges that operatives of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence, also lent stealthy support to the Brexit movement in Britain, the Catalonian independence movement in Spain, the anti-immigration groups in Sweden, and more.
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