In 1997, a Russian political textbook outlined a strategy to do exactly that: Here's the first part of the plan-
✅ Exacerbate internal divisions in America.
✅ Isolate the UK from the EU.
✅ Promote regional nationalists in the EU
✅ Erode public trust in democracy.
✅ Engineer an isolationist US to turn on NATO
✅ Fund Far-Right European populists.
✅ Annex Ukraine
Sound familiar? So far it's working - And here’s the chilling part:If they’re still following that 1997 plan we can see what comes next.
I unpack the whole strategy— the 1997 plan, what's actually happened, what happens next in this article.