Russia isn’t engaging in some conspiracy, but they’ve certainly successfully run influence operations targeting the disaffected and vulnerable. There’s plenty of open source information about how active Russian agents were influential in organizations like the NRA.
The United States is less stable than it was 30 years ago. The rot is starting in the periphery with the lack of opportunity or prosperity in rural America. That is the tinder that fuels modern nut job gun culture, q, militias and other fringe organizations that now have national prominence.
Undermining infrastructure is an early goal of insurgencies. I’m sure we’ll have active areas that are unsafe to travel for outsiders in the next 10-15 years outside of government control.
The United States is less stable than it was 30 years ago. The rot is starting in the periphery with the lack of opportunity or prosperity in rural America. That is the tinder that fuels modern nut job gun culture, q, militias and other fringe organizations that now have national prominence.
Undermining infrastructure is an early goal of insurgencies. I’m sure we’ll have active areas that are unsafe to travel for outsiders in the next 10-15 years outside of government control.