They want to go in hard, instead of this careful capture of territory.

"You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage, you just have to raise enough questions, enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing, that citizens no longer know what to believe. Once they lose trust in their leaders, the mainstream media and political institutions, in each other, in the possibility of truth - the game's won." - Barack Obama. April 21, 2022 in an address to political alumni at Stanford University.