> How would you distinguish between such a "sowing chaos" campaign and random Russian people/groups who have different interests in the US?
In the latter, superficially opposing strands of propaganda wouldn't trace back to the same actors.
> I'd also wonder why an intelligent person might think this is worse than, say, Saudis and Israelis formenting US wars in the middle east,
Because it's worse—for Americans—to have foreign powers trying to manipulate America into tearing itself apart than to have them trying to manipulate America to use its power on behalf of those foreign powers.
>> How would you distinguish between such a "sowing chaos" campaign and random Russian people/groups who have different interests in the US?
>In the latter, superficially opposing strands of propaganda wouldn't trace back to the same actors.
You mean like "propornot," a cia affiliated group of "Ukrainian nationalists" who published enemy lists of American media sources as being Russian agents of influence ... via establishment mouthpiece Washington Post?
BTW does this foreign interference in the US political process, possibly with CIA aid concern you at all?
> Because it's worse—for Americans—to have foreign powers trying to manipulate America into tearing itself apart ...
Citations needed. When in the history of the human race has anything like this ever been effective? Let alone something like this which seems to have more or less completely taken place ... on twitter.
Meanwhile, the Saudis and Israelis have fomented actual wars, where people, including American people, actually die, interfering with the US electoral process, and limiting the Overton window of acceptable discourse to basically be "some wars" or "more wars." They continue to do so. Seems more dangerous to me than some silly conspiracy theory about "sowing chaos." The only chaos sown is that people like me are off the reservation.
In the latter, superficially opposing strands of propaganda wouldn't trace back to the same actors.
> I'd also wonder why an intelligent person might think this is worse than, say, Saudis and Israelis formenting US wars in the middle east,
Because it's worse—for Americans—to have foreign powers trying to manipulate America into tearing itself apart than to have them trying to manipulate America to use its power on behalf of those foreign powers.