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It may be true that Russia is trying to orchestrate disinformation campaigns around the world, but it is simply preying on feelings that are already quite strong in the West. It is not creating these feelings.

Can they be explained by feelings other than "hate" as the Left often likes to clumsily portray? Of course they can. It is reasonable to have a problem with huge waves of people entering countries in unchecked masses, often people who have very little skills and come from cultures very different from the ones they are flooding into. That would be a problem in any country.

Additionally, the far Left believes in "salad bowls" instead of "melting pots", that one's native culture is valuable and that it should be preserved. The combination of mass immigration with these regressive ideals leads to division and distrust within nations.

It is the entire Leftist ideology of identity politics combined with mass immigration that causes so much frustration and anger among people, who get even angrier when their reasonable views are labeled "far right".

Immigration must be legal and controlled and steady so that assimilation happens naturally without coercion, which would certainly backfire.