Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
When one does an analysis of Russian non linear warfare one tends to not focus on Russian crime groups and how they are intertwined into Russia non linear warfare and Russian cyber warfare...

CRIMINTERN: HOW THE KREMLIN USES RUSSIA’S CRIMINAL NETWORKS IN EUROPE
Mark Galeotti
http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/ECFR208_-_...N_EUROPE02.pdf

Quote in the article that one needs to fully understand.....

"In Russia we have power and protection...in Europe we have wealth and comfort"........

This quote also applies to the US....especially now in the Trump Russian connections investigation.....

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...cid=spartanntp

Something that is often overlooked in Russian non linear warfare is the key Russian "soft power"......money..."black money"....and plenty of it.....
The Russian Laundromat

https://www.reportingproject.net/the...laundromat.php

It may be the biggest money-laundering operation in Eastern Europe -- a virtual laundromat operating through banks and companies connected to powerful people in the region.


Between 2010 and early 2014, organized criminals and corrupt politicians in Russia moved US$ 20 billion in dirty funds through this laundromat’s complex cleanse-and-spin cycle made up of dozens of offshore companies, banks, fake loans, and proxy agents. The process was then certified as clean by judges in the tiny Republic of Moldova. The newly cleaned funds were then spread across Europe.

Now law enforcement and prosecutors in Moldova are investigating the system.
AND a large amount of that now "clean Russian money" resides in the US....