The Mueller Report definitively established that the Russians, both through the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and the Internet Research Agency (IRA), undertook information operations campaigns. This has been reasonably clear for a long time. Rawi Abdelal Galit Goldstein write in the National Interest that framing the Russian disinformation campaign issue through the debate of whether Donald Trump could have won the presidency without Russian help, or whether the Trump campaign actively conspired with Russia, misses the point. “The goal of the information operations campaigns was not simply to elect Donald Trump president. Nor was it only to polarize American politics further. The point was, rather, to continue undermining America’s ability to agree on the true and not-true,” they write. And Russia’s strategy hinged on the fact that it is nearly impossible for people stuck in alternate realities with competing, incompatible truth claims to undertake civil discourse.