Even the American president himself

Weakening NATO is their goal.

As a Russian, honestly these are all sorts of shit with no practical difference for us.

Except for Alaska, some people think it shouldn't have been sold. And 0.7 mln total population is (far) less than Crimea.

That aside, a confederacy (I guess some other word would be better) of the old US and some more autonomous things, like, for example, California, would possibly be a stabilizer.

There's been a number of news coverages of this. It's not like it's the biggest operation or anything but they have been trying to plant that seed intentionally.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article264043131.html

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/russia-texas-california-separatism-9809aca9f61d/

https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-separatists-snap-story.html

Sincere question as a foreigner, is there any basis to this "Jill Stein is a Russian asset" thing other than the nature of FPTP voting resulting in the royally fucked-up US two-party system?

Asymmetric warfare basic.

No, you don't get it, the US has so excelled in pitting others against each other to emerge as one victor, than it's bringing the thing home. So you are going to weaken yourselves by making a quarreling mess of the old system, then it imploding and some nominally democratic and free new system taking over. Probably simultaneously trying to nuke half of the rest of the world.

It's not really news, the Civil War has been one of the fiercest conflict in history.

You've demonstrated that already by calling me a troll for no reason haha