Putin's "special war"

 In the case it slipped your mind, Putin directly financed or more covertly helped and/or influenced, among others:

• Donald Trump, a.k.a. Agent Orange (I do like this pun of mine). No, Mueller Report did not "fully exonerate President Trump"; quite to the contrary, it found that "Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was illegal and occurred "in sweeping and systematic fashion, but was welcomed by the Trump campaign as it expected to benefit from such efforts."
  Go see the Wikipedia page and make sure to follow the sources linked from it, instead of crying that Wikipedia is unreliable.
• Nigel Farage (who still cries that "Europe and the West have caused this crisis") and other Brexiteers.
• Various European populist nationalists, xenophobes, neo-Nazis, and other kinds of "EU skeptics", From Orban to Le Pen to Wilders to whatever the newest Mussolini wannabes are called.

In the case of the US, the goal was to divide the country even more deeply and bitterly and to make its government barely functional (and what function was left was only thanks to lower-ranking professionals.) In the case of Europe, it was weakening the Union in any possible way. So, Putin merely followed the ancient "divide et impera!" - that one never gets old.

Now, the next item is more of my little conspiracy theory, based on very simple analysis of "who gains and who loses": German "Greens". For that, see the next post.