Arsonist, Killer, Saboteur, Spy: While Trump Courts Him, Putin Is Escalating Russia’s Hybrid War Against the West

In the run-up to Germany’s federal election in February, for example, there was a series of attacks against civilians in Germany by Afghans and other immigrants. According to a senior German intelligence official we spoke to shortly before the election, the German agencies believed that Russian security agents may have instigated these attacks in order to inflate support for the far right, which opposes German support for Ukraine.

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