Russia has been at war with Western civilization for several years, and on every level, on our own soil.
Their biggest victory are the successful splitting and polarization of Western societies, by co-opting conservatives and the right-wing in several countries of the EU and in the United States.
Ask an average FN supporter in France, or an AfD supporter in Germany, or a MAGA republican in the US, what they think about Putin and Russia, and you will hear praises of how a great leader Putin is that really cares about his people, and that Russia is this honorable society of conservative values.
The truth is of course that Putin is a brutal dictator who murders political opponents, suppresses all dissidents and free media in the country, and starts wars and invades his neighbours as soon as they start leaning towards the West. The corrpution of the elites in Putin's inner circle has been bleeding the country dry for decades, while a majority of the population barely has access to sanitation facilities, with dilapitaded infrastructure as soon as you move out of the Disneyland cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The two major cities are the only part of Russia the leadership really cares about. The rest of the Russian Land Empire is subservient to that, and non-heartland Russian (non-white) minorities in the provinces suffer discrimination and arbitraryness, such as being sent to Ukraine as cannon-fodder. Putin's rule is enforced through violence and mafia tactics. Basically, shut up and play along or you will disappear or experience a tragic incident, such as 'suicide' by falling out of a window. People tend to forget that Putin was a KGB agent who hates the fact that the West "won" the cold war, and has declared the Anglo-Saxon culture to be his own personal, greatest enemy.
Putin and his secret services has managed to align himself with the values of conservatives in the West, like anti-wokeness, anti-GLBTQ, pro "tough guy image", and the conservative right-wing has become so enraptured by these charms through propaganda networks like RT and social media channels, and uses this as a weapon to sow ever larger division and polarization and thereby civil unrest in Western countries. We where very close to the types of outcomes the Russian leadership is looking for on January 6th.
I'm not being partisan, it's just a matter of fact that Russia helped propell Trump to victory because they knew he was the kind of character they had a hold on, and who could be influneced and uses as a tool to further divide US society, which is exactly what Trump has been doing for the last decade.
Remember how they reacted to Trump's victory
https://theworld.org/stories/2...
Putin and Russia, they are not our friends. Not even of Trump, Republicans or MAGA. They pretend to be, but their goals are to polarize, disrupt, weaken, divide and conquer.