pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
Totally get your logic, but if you take into consideration the shit Surkov is up to it all becomes much more believable. The Russian mind is uber cryptic. Riddles wrapped in enigmas, double bluffs etc. Makes it all the more effective at keeping inquiring minds out. If you haven't already, watch hypernomalization. At least the Surkov bit, which I think is available on YouTube as a short clip. He basically gets the Kremlin to fund the extreme left and right, and then he announces it in the media leaving people not knowing if they're coming or going. His Wikipedia article has a bunch of interesting stuff. And the fact that he comes from a theatre background is interesting too. The beauty of it is that it really is so far fetched that even the smartest would never believe it. If I was trying to fuck with millions of people all at once I'd probably go that route instead of blowing big buildings up with planes.
The thing with stuff like this is that this bloke defected to Canada and became a pro-American voice after careful vetting. How are we to know whether he was right or whether he simply became a mouthpiece for the CIA and the rest? The manipulation could just as easily be to put these ideas out there in order to keep people under the thumb of the US government.