Sky News: British citizens are volunteering to commit crimes for Russian state for money and ‘glamour’, says counter-terror chief

https://news.sky.com/story/british-citizens-are-volunteering-to-commit-crimes-for-russian-state-for-money-and-glamour-says-counter-terror-chief-13456527

by CasualSmurf

11 comments

  1. I do suspect there are a lot of Walter Mitty types who would get excited about the idea of being a secret agent.

    Long stretch in Belmarsh should hopefully disabuse them of that idea.

  2. It’s not just teenagers/early 20s guys. There’s this geezer always on Russia Today running down the country must be at least in his 60s

  3. ‘Groomed by a Chatbot’.

    Christ. This guy was such a completely gormless numbnuts that he got ‘groomed’ by a robot.

  4. These fellas will have Farage, Robinson, Trump etc as a following

  6. Have they checked on Peter Mandelson yet? In addition to being chums with Epstein, he also hung around Russian oligarchs and held a major role in the Russian company Sistema before and after Russia’s invasion of Crimea.

  8. Well yeah, it’s a mix of that, and the fact that these people are generally pretty stupid anyways and fall for a lot of the disinformation that is fed through right-wing/extreme right-wing channels, where the media is pretty much generated by Russian troll farms/intelligence agencies.

    Russia knows the target audience that it is trying to rile up, and knows that there are plenty of people in the right/extreme right spheres that will bite.

  10. And the russians are also pushing lone wolf attacks and radicalism by anyone who will listen online

  11. I have a feeling that they heard about what the Russians get up to in war and want to live their Savile fantasies.

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