Clint Watts

The single most important source of political information was links to unverified WikiLeaks stories. We believe there was automation pushing those links around but that is our next research project. part of the reason active measures worked in the U.S. election is because the commander in chief used Russian active measures at times against his opponents.

The same outlets that were pushing election propaganda and disinformation are still doing that, and principally with respect to the insurrection at the moment, putin is siding with those in the insurrection, and they will continue to push on behalf of GOP and against President Joe Biden.

Russia has a clear bridge to America. They have consistently communicated and connected with Americans to influence them and support policies and candidates favorable to them, china has no such aims. There's no presidential candidate -- not Biden or President Trump -- especially post Covid, that's going to improve relations with China.

With the Belt and Road Initiative( BRI) they will have surveillance, and with surveillance they can implement censorship.