In addition to the presidential contest, Russia, China and Cuba are looking to meddle in congressional races, the officials said.
Foreign adversaries will try to shake Americans’ confidence in the legitimacy of election results in November by giving voice to false claims or spreading their own disinformation about ballot counting, U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday.
“As we approach Election Day, the intelligence community is also stressing that foreign efforts to undermine America’s democracy won’t end on Nov. 5,” a senior intelligence official told reporters in a virtual briefing.
In its latest assessment of foreign threats to the election, intelligence officials said the main foreign powers seeking to shape the outcome of the vote — Russia, China and Iran — also were focusing on meddling in congressional and state races.
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Yeah Putin’s playbook is basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics, the US playbook to topple and control foreign governments remains unchanged, and now there are new players in the sandbox that want to control other nations. The war of ideology is very much at its peak.