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You can affect this as a foreign power. Pay some think tank to produce material for (so called) media outlets.

• johnchristopher 8y ago
  I am not a US citizen and not living in the US but I can't recall hearing a foreign official or non-official supporting a reduced US government. US local politicians are vocals enough about it.
  • pjc50 8y ago
    Obviously they wouldn't do so under their own names, but through Macedonian troll factories, opaquely funded think tanks, Russia Today interviews, twitter bots, and so on.
  • Gravityloss 8y ago
    Oh, that would be doing it wrong. Of course it would be presented as locally written journalism, local experts or "concerned citizens" etc. I'm not saying it's happening, but I certainly see the potential profitability in it.
  • mattnewton 8y ago
    I absolutely agree this is a home grown phenomenon but there is some evidence that Russia funneled money to Republicans with these beliefs through the NRA. This is just one example we happen to know about because people are looking under every rock after the 2016 election. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/timeline-of-russian-plot-to-infiltrate-nra-and-gop/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/timeline-of-russian-plot-to-inf...
    • pjc50 8y ago
      The NRA is a great example of this; its president is Oliver North, famously involved in a plot to sell weapons to one enemy of America to illegally support a terrorist organisation in another. I'm sure such an upstanding person has America's best interests at heart. /s