The gist of this article is that the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, is doing many terrorist-type activities, including putting incendiary bombs on planes, murder in other countries, arson and even vandalism as trivial as breaking the mirrors of a car.
They are also hiring ordinary criminals since many GRU agents have been expelled from adversary countries. Criminals work for money and are untrained in spycraft, making them unreliable and potentially even more dangerous than actual GRU spies.
This has the potential to get out of control with a black swan terrorist event.
Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the following statement:
Since our statement on Friday, the IC has been observing foreign adversaries, particularly Russia, conducting additional influence operations intended to undermine public confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections and stoke divisions among Americans. The IC expects these activities will intensify through election day and in the coming weeks, and that foreign influence narratives will focus on swing states.
Whatever you thought about the Biden administration, we at least had a competent state department, military leadership and intelligence agencies. Read Woodward’s “War” for some interesting insights. I don’t have much faith that Trump will have any kind of coherent foreign policy that will benefit the US and its allies.
Have you seen Bob Woodward in an interview lately? He is 81 now. I think it was on “Amanpour” I saw him recently, flogging that book. His speech does not flow like it used to. He seemed to have quite a bit of difficulty carrying the conversation.
