Recruitment of Far right extremists to fight the West

After the Salisbury poisonings in 2018, dozens of Russian spies were expelled by the UK Government.
It is now believed that the Kremlin has been forced to follow a tactic similar to that used by Iran in which organised crime gangs are used to carry out proxy terrorist attacks. Russia is recruiting far-Right extremists to carry out attacks in the UK and Nato countries, Intelligence sources have said that terrorists recruited by Russian GRU agents have been responsible for a series of attacks in Western Europe and the US in the last six months. Do you think that has Russia is doing now has been done by the west for several years ?