While civic engagement is a cornerstone of democracy, these actions have escalated into dangerous situations, exposing young students to violence, arrests, and physical harm. This isn't just youthful activism—it's a troubling pattern in which impressionable adolescents are encouraged to skip class and confront law enforcement, often with dire consequences.

In a pre-dawn raid that drew crowds of onlookers and sparked immediate online debate, federal agents arrested 37-year-old Kyle Wagner, a Minneapolis resident who openly identified as an Antifa member, on charges of cyberstalking and transmitting threatening communications.

The tactics highlighted in this article are irrefutable. There is ample evidence of them being deployed successfully by the US and other world powers.  However, the CIA has no monopoly on these tactics.  There is no mistaking that much of what has taken place on the US political stage since  Donald Trump announced his quest for the Presidency in 2015 has the all the hallmarks of the destabilization “playbook”.