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Whatever are the causes, if you just remove the consequences you don't solve the problem.
Let's assume that afd grow only becasue Russian money and disinformation (which I personlly don't belive like I don't belive that Fratelli d'Italia won because suddently 30% if the italian population is fascist), do you really think that destroying afd will stop the flow of money and disinformation ? They simply will choose (or build) another group to give the money to making better choices.
And you will end up in a situation where the far right group will be able to paint you as the bad guy because you oppose things that basically will be the same things afd is proposing now but with a much nicer dress so that they look acceptable.
No but they will loose all their existing structures money and the personnel involved is "burned". They can't just found a new party. So it buys a few years to tackle the problems in other ways.
I would not be that optimist about the "few years", expecially because I don't see the will to fix the problems which leaded to the afd (and far right in general) grow.
To me this just seems something like "hide the dirt under the rug and hope that it will go away". And it is a stupid path to follow