The data covers the work of organisations HazteOir and CitizenGO, comprising documents which date from 2001 to 2017 like spreadsheets of donors and members, strategy and planning documents, letters, financial charts and legal and training documents. HazteOir was first founded in 2001 in Spain to campaign for right wing values, in 2013 it founded CitizenGO to spread its work beyond Spanish speaking countries.
Here is the link: https://wikileaks.org/intolerancenetwork
I’m not confident it is a Russian op, but Russia has always fueled both sides of the political spectrum. They don’t necessarily want one side to prevail, they just want their opponents to be divided.
In the last 7 years they’ve been pretty one sided on the political propaganda spectrum
They’re definitely in favor of the right, but it was only a few years ago that a Russian-backed bot fa was found to be running both right-wing and left-wing propaganda accounts. They know that if we’re busy fighting amongst ourselves, we won’t pay as much attention to everything that they’re doing.
That’s one thing that’s always been flawed about the russia discussion. Russia is often astroturfing discussions online or spreading misinformation and just letting the chaos unfold. There isn’t a ton of deliberate or direct coordination with American personalities/pundits/etc. People like Hannity/Carlson/etc. just don’t care if it does line up with Kremlin talking points. They read the wind, look at the numbers, and go “if I say this, ratings do x, politician gets y support, and i keep making big dollars owning the libs.” In government it gets a little murkier of course. But I don’t think trump sat down with Putin personally and said “win me an election.” I think his team knew Russia was fucking around with things and they subsequently took advantage of the chaos. It’s still terrible, but it is distinct.
Good ol’ “Foundations of Geopolitics.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
It’s succeeding beyond Dugin’s wildest dreams.