Convicted Russian spies attended Brexit event in Parliament

Roussev was spying on the US as Dr. Jan Itor for a while.

Russians must be laughing their asses off at how easy it is to abuse democracy.
- It's fairly easy to abuse the paradox of tolerance, especially when so many media are in the hands of a handful of people
- russia sows dissent in order to keep the west to back off from russia imperialistic aims: Ukraine,and every other former soviet state.
- No, they know exactly how inbred conservatives are, they have hordes at home to abuse freely so long as they let them keep their racism.
- they would be if they weren't so terrified of giving away their positions to the drones on the Ukrainian front.
- They abused an already decrepit democracy/democracies tho. A failing infrastructure susceptible to basic ads.

Well they should get invited after all they did to promote it.

Obviously, because Brexit was just fueled by lies and propaganda spread on Meta platforms and twitter to fuel enough anti-european sentiment to leave the Union. They appealed to their sense of "greatness" with disinformation in order to separate one of the only nuclear powers there and the most militarily prepared. UKIP gets their money from the same place all the far-right groups all over the world do. The Heritage Foundation. That's what all the talk about invading Canada and Greenland is about, split NATO forces so there's less support for Ukraine.

Russia can do so much with so little :D
- they figured it out in the 80s fight with geopolitics, and TRUMP happened to fall into thier laps at the same time.

Ah ok, so Brexit was caused by Russians now. I thought it was caused by the people who voted to leave the EU.
- A couple of points:
  Yes, Russia was involved in the social media propaganda:
  https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/how-svetlana-and-friends-took-to-the-brexit-cause-fcb3bd0db?region=global
  The voters had precious little idea what it was they were actually voting on:
  https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/06/24/480949383/britains-google-searches-for-what-is-the-eu-spike-after-brexit-vote
  
  You do realize that makes it even more disappointing, right? I mean, trying to understand what Brexit was after voting for it? My goodness.
- It is considered widely as one of Putins biggest successes in driving a wedge into Europe. Remember how much money of the "Leave" campaign came from Russian sources.
- The Leave campaigns were largely funded with Russian money, and there were massive pro-brexit disinformation campaigns by Russia on social media. So, not caused by, but massively aided by Russians. Very much like Trump - both projects designed to cause division in Western countries.
  
  hard to ignore trumps speeches include alot of russian/putin talking points and buzzwords. remember trump immediately fired comey after he won, comey thought trump would stand against russia, did he not notice he was always standing with him.
- Brexit was one of several military psychological operations to undermine western political power under CambridgeAnalytica / SLC.
  https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like/transcript
  And yes, the russians were all in on it.
- Been known for a long time
- It was funded by & clearly (since day 1 of the first talks) mostly if not solely a benefit to Russia.
  Never forget how ads work on everyone. It's just how our brains are wired.
- Well... Yes? At least partially.
- They didn’t cause it, no.
  David Cameron caused it by adding it to the Conservative party manifesto to help them get reelected.
  I’d be surprised if Russia didn’t at least attempt to influence the referendum in favour of Brexit. They have been interfering in elections for years and Brexit would be beneficial to them as it made both the UK and the EU weaker.