Obviously the Russia agencies exploit existing weaknesses.
They "hijack" existing problems and feed a trojan horse of "simple answers" into our communication systems.
Well I have often said we need to look properly at these weaknesses.
For example, one of the great triumphs of the capitalist system over the communist system was its ability to regulate production and demand. We saw the pictures of long queues in Russia for goods and services. And the gluts also. Whereas here we effectively regulated this with our system.
Except for some reason this mechanism did not work as well with regulating production and demand of housing, did it.
Remember, even long before immmigration increased we saw that there was something amiss in the regulation of housing production and demand.
Now, we could have looked at that, and probably solved the problem with the proper political will.
Actually we could have looked at the problems of immigration and solved that, if we diagnosed the problems correctly.
However what I am trying to show you that Putin does not want our problems solved. Rather he wants the problems to remain unsolved, and cause fracture, disunity, and harm in our society.