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Everybody are. You would like to think that it's only "them", but sad truth is, people are just easy to manipulate.
Everyone can be manipulated. People who want to be outside of every norm are more easy to manipulate and the far right belongs to those groups.
I think it would be quite difficult to persuade me I can solve problems by burning down a Citizens Advice centre.
When acting in a group, it is easy to turn people into a mob. So all the propaganda has to do, is get people to go on the streets and have one or two shitheads starting something. I don't think many of the rioters went out that day with the explicit goal to burn the centre down. Maybe some had the goal to set something on fire, or smash something, but i doubt it to be aimed at this specific place beforehand.
In other words destabilizing propaganda just needs to start something without it having to be anything specific.
Yeah, the Kremlin supports extremest politics of many flavors. The George Floyd riots are a good example of something similar happening on the left.
After reading the article i thought about how legit united24media probably is.