@kctipton well much like the far-right it is hard to distinguish which statements originate from the russians/china themselves. The only clue we have is the friendliness of the far-right/left, and the general consistency in talking points, often expressed in ways that are self-defeating or meant to be divisive.

@freemo @kctipton What "far left"? Whatever there is of it is too small and powerless to be worth the bother for either country. It is the far right that has power far beyond its numbers, and there is plenty of evidence of Russian support for right-wing fascist movements all over the world.

@andytiedye

depends on the country you are talking about. In the USA a huge portion of the left is "far-left" and radicalized in all sorts of ways (just as the USA has a huge far-right problem)... Thankfully in much (not all) of the rest of the world you'd be right, there isnt much of a far-left or far-right in say, the Netherlands. The prevelance of the far-left seems limited to the USA, but for anyone not on the extremes of the spectrum they are a very obvious and pervasive group for sure.

In fact the USA is so polarized they tend to exist on the extremes of almost any issue, even non-political ones.

@kctipton