Last week, US intelligence officials reportedly estimated that Russian President Vladimir Putin could use the Biden administration’s support in Ukraine as a pretext to launch a new campaign to intervene in the US election. Although the AP reported that “it is not yet clear which candidates Russia can try to promote or what methods it could use”, Russian state media seem to agree that former US President Donald Trump remains the candidate for Moscow. . The time has come to “help our partner Trump become president again,” state television presenter Evgeny Popov said recently. In the Thursday edition of the state television show The Evening With Vladimir Soloviev, Putin’s experts offered an update on plans for 2024. “We try to feel our way, discovering the first steps. “What can we do in 2023, 2024?” Said Russian “American” Malek Dudakov, a US-based political scientist. He suggested that Russia’s intervention in the upcoming elections be in its early stages and that more would be done after the war ended and the frozen relations between the US and Russia began to warm up. “Once things thaw and the 2024 presidential race is firmly on the agenda, there will be times when we can make use of it,” he added. “The most banal approach I can think of is to invite Trump — before announcing that he will run for president — to a future summit in liberated Mariupol.” Dmitry Drobnicki, a ubiquitous “American” on Soloviev’s show, suggested that Tulsi Gabbard be invited along with Trump. Dudakov agreed: “Tulsi Gabbard would also be great. “Maybe Trump will take her as his vice president?” Gabard has recently become a state-run television show for her pro-Russian debates, and has even been described as a “Russian agent” by the Kremlin’s propaganda machine. If state television is any indication, the real agenda of Kremlin officials has never been limited to supporting specific candidates, but rather aimed at harming America as a whole. Dudakov stressed: “With Europe, economic wars must be a priority. “With America, we must work to strengthen divisions and – in the light of our limited capabilities – deepen the polarization of American society.” “The main elections are still ahead and preparations for them are already underway.” He continued: “There is a horrible polarization of society in the United States, very serious conflicts between Democrats and Republicans that are constantly expanding. You have already mentioned that America is a dying empire — and most empires were not conquered, they were destroyed from within. The same fate awaits America in the next decade. That is why, when all the procedures are thawed, Russia can have the opportunity to play in it. “ Dudakov’s Twitter feed, which he maintains despite blocking the service in Russia, offers a glimpse into his own propaganda efforts. In tweeting “Duderman67,” Dudakov focuses on criticizing US President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton — while backing Trump. On Thursday, host Soloviev argued that Russia was not yet fully fighting the United States, and scattered the loss of the main weapon behind enemy lines: “RT’s super-functional structure,” the state television that finances the Kremlin. network shut down by U.S. cable stations last month. He then suggested his own ideas on how to influence American voters without the help of RT: “I would act through different diasporas. For example, I would work with the Spanish-speaking media – as America becomes predominantly Spanish-speaking, with the colossal influence of Latin America, I would work through their press, through these narratives, moving in that direction; it is not allowing us to work directly with the American media, but we have many opportunities that we do not take advantage of so far. “ Appearing on Soloviev’s show two days earlier, Vitaly Tretyakov, dean of the School of Television at Moscow State University, complained that Russia had “military supersonic weapons, but we do not have information supersonic weapons; all our forces must be deployed.” We do not have information weapons of the same power as our supersonic weapons … as opposed to the ones they have. You can not survive in this world without winning an information war. That is out of the question. “ Researcher Karen Shakhnazarov suggested: “I would find it useful to cut off diplomatic relations with the United States. I do not see any sense in preserving them. And that would deal a devastating blow to Biden. There are many people in the US who say it brings us all to the brink of nuclear war. That’s going to be a strong message. “ This was not the only talk of nuclear war on Soloviev’s show this week. On Thursday, Soloviev confirmed a well-known idea that was frequently reported in the state media when he acknowledged: “De facto, we are not fighting a campaign against Ukraine, but against the whole West.” A parade of experts recounted various ways in which US sanctions affect the Russian economy and the limited potential for Russian retaliation. Soloviev resorted to taking out his favorite trump card designed to intimidate the West: the threat of nuclear war. He asked: “Maybe it’s time to hit them? “Since we are already a rogue state, a war criminal, if everything is so bad.” Aside from the nuclear holocaust, it is now clear that Russia is focusing its efforts on diverting American attention from its foreign policy goals by threatening to interfere in US internal affairs. Speaking about the upcoming by-elections on Soloviev’s show last week, Konstantin Dolgov, deputy chairman of the Russian Federal Council’s Economic Policy Committee, predicted that “the results will obviously not be good for the Democrats” due to rising prices. But the intermediaries, he stressed, are “just a rehearsal. “The main elections are still ahead and preparations for them are already underway.”
