“Inflammatory words will lead to acts of violence — on the steps of the Reichstag, and now in the Capitol. The contempt for democratic institutions has a devastating effect,” Mr. Mass

wrote on Twitter, adding, “The enemies of democracy will be happy about these unbelievable pictures from Washington, D.C.”

And they were.

In Russia, the violence fit neatly into the Kremlin’s propaganda narrative of a crumbling American democracy. Russia’s state-controlled news channel, Rossiya-24, broadcast the chaos in the Capitol on a split screen, one side showing happy Orthodox Christmas festivities in Russia, the other the violent mayhem in Washington.

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Felipe Neto, a popular Brazilian political commentator, took a shot at the United States.

“I’m waiting for the USA to invade the USA so they can ‘re-establish democracy,’” he wrote on Twitter.