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To: President Vladimir Putin

From: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

As you noted in President Trump’s performance review, he has done excellent work — for Russia. But let’s also acknowledge Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and some others. Without them, we wouldn’t have made such progress in destabilizing America.

Before the 2016 election, McConnell blocked efforts to alert Americans about Russia’s interference in the election — despite clear evidence from America’s non-partisan intelligence community. We need more “patriotic” Americans like McConnell — who aren’t overly concerned about Russian interference with America’s elections.

Trump once said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and his supporters wouldn’t care. Well, Russia could shoot someone in front of the White House and if the victims are Trump opponents, Trump won’t care (nor, it seems, will the GOP).

Consequently, I believe Russia can act with impunity. Our 2018 goals therefore should continue and expand upon those of 2016: Create the maximum amount of political chaos in America, while supporting political candidates who are good for Russia (e.g., Trump and the GOP’s Trump wing). We should further reshape the GOP into a subservient political party by eliminating Republican politicians more loyal to America than to their partisan agenda. Conveniently, there are very few of those.

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Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California is the model for what we want going forward. When faced with evidence that Russia hacked U.S. email servers (violating hundreds of Americans’ privacy), launched a social media campaign to corrupt America’s election process, and probed dozens of state voter registration systems (violating millions of Americans’ privacy), Nunes attacked the FBI for tracking Russia’s activities. I am curious: Is Nunes on our payroll? Is there kompromat on him? Or can he really be so foolish that he believes our propaganda? In any event, Nunes and Republicans like him are highly useful for us.

In the primaries, we should support Republicans like Nunes, particularly when they face off against Republicans not loyal to Russia. In the general election, we shouldn’t hesitate to attack Republican candidates who don’t support our interests. Russia is better off with a smaller, more submissive Republican Party, even at the cost of helping some Democrats. As long as defeated Republicans aren’t devout Trump loyalists, Trump won’t object to their elimination.

Shrinking or eliminating the Republican majority in Congress isn’t necessarily bad from our perspective. Without adult supervision, Trump the Very Stable Genius may get us all killed. The Trump administration openly discusses starting a war with North Korea and/or Iran. If conventional wars, they’ll be advantageous for us. But if they spiral out of control into a global nuclear war (not impossible with Trump in charge — the man has small hands but a big button to press) this would be bad for us. In some scenarios, it would be better if a Democratic Congress could slow Trump’s march to war.

It’s imperative that we discredit and halt special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. His recent indictment of our colleagues shows he’s getting too close. We must support (with social media and other measures) demands (from people like Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz) to fire Mueller. We should use our propaganda system to sustain demands from Trump sycophants (such as Lou Dobbs) for a second special counsel to investigate Mueller, the Justice Department, the FBI and Hillary Clinton. We should also amplify Trump’s claim that mass shooting tragedies result from the FBI wasting too many resources on the Russia investigation.

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To further polarize U.S. politics, we must maximize efforts to exacerbate racial, religious and ethnic tensions in America. Similarly, in Democratic Party primaries, we should promote the most extreme left-wing candidates. Our continued support for third-party candidates (like Jill Stein) will further fracture American politics.

Nearly half of Republicans (aka useful idiots) believe Trump won the popular vote in 2016, despite all evidence to the contrary. We should build on this base of gullible fools, and ratchet up our activities as the 2018 elections approach.

Besides our proven 2016 repertoire, we should seriously consider other techniques, some of which we’ve used in other countries: eliminating American opponents through assassinations, discrediting our American political opponents by planting damaging material (e.g., child pornography) on their home computers, directly manipulating vulnerable voting machines, and deleting voter registration files to create long lines and frustration among voters.

American political commentators are saying Trump and the GOP are likely facing electoral reverses. In the best case, Trump will take advantage of the disruption we create to postpone the 2018 elections (claiming that voter fraud and chaotic conditions make fair elections impossible). (One survey showed about half of all Republicans would willingly postpone the 2020 election, if Trump and Republican leaders wanted to do so.) An attempt to postpone this year’s elections would probably fail but should cause a firestorm of legal and political challenges that would paralyze America.

Even if the GOP doesn’t try to postpone the elections, the Republican Party might disintegrate into opposing factions — GOP candidates we supported vs. those we opposed. Hopefully, the Democratic Party can be similarly destabilized. Democratic candidates benefiting from our attacks on their opponents won’t want to delegitimize their victories, and consequently will downplay Russia’s involvement.

And we can count on Trump to create a smokescreen of lies (claiming that any major 2018 Democratic victories are due to voter fraud, and that the Russia investigation is fake news) veiling our actions.

The result should be even greater disillusionment among Americans about their government. Ideally, Russia could emerge as kingmaker in American politics — successfully manipulating one weakened political party against another.

Steven Strauss, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors, is a lecturer and visiting professor at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. Follow him on Twitter: @Steven_Strauss.

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