Kathrine Frich
Lugovoy’s comments are part of a broader pattern on Russian state television, where guests and officials regularly discuss undermining Western democracies.
Lugovoy’s comments are part of a broader pattern on Russian state television, where guests and officials regularly discuss undermining Western democracies.
Russian MP claims civil war is coming to America
Andrey Lugovoy, a member of Russia’s State Duma and a former KGB officer, claimed that civil war is “coming” to the United States in a fiery appearance on Russian state TV.
He accused Donald Trump of saying “things that are obviously dumb” and said Moscow should take advantage of growing political divisions in America.
‘We should interfere’
Lugovoy argued that the political differences between Republicans and Democrats are “entering a phase of being impossible to resolve.”
He said, “We should take advantage of their existing differences. We should drive them not only to an economic shutdown, but a political one.”
Accusations of ‘political repression’ inside the US
The Russian politician accused both major US parties of waging “political repressions” against each other.
He said he no longer sees talk of an American civil war as a “conspiracy theory,” suggesting instead that the conflict is already developing within the country’s institutions.
A call for more aggressive propaganda
During the broadcast, Lugovoy also outlined a strategy to expand Russia’s influence through state-controlled media like RT.
“We are developing our propagandist activities, I mean it in a positive sense, in Europe and America. We should intensify it even more,” he said.
‘Buying’ influence and planting operatives
Lugovoy claimed Russia should “buy” journalists and politicians in the West and “plant” its people into US “domestic life.”
He said he was “deeply convinced” Moscow should insert people into the Democratic Party to further pit Republicans and Democrats against one another.
Link to past controversies in Britain
The UK suspects Lugovoy of being one of two men responsible for the 2006 murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London, a charge he calls “absurd.”
Litvinenko died after ingesting radioactive polonium-210 believed to have been slipped into a cup of tea.
Trump singled out for criticism
Earlier in the programme, Lugovoy mocked the former US president’s leadership.
“He says whatever pops into his head,” Lugovoy said of Trump. “He says things that are obviously dumb from every standpoint.”
His remarks reflect a growing anti-Trump tone on Russian state media.
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