Question For Republicans

[*wildcats forever*]

(05-16-2017, 02:52 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Never said we shouldn't try to contain it. Just said that we need to be aware of it.

Hell we're "interfering" with the Dutch election right now. So is Russia.


That's right, Turn about is fair play. Never said I like it, but that's the way it goes.

Because Trump was not involved and Hillary was, it's only natural for Putin to favor Trump.

The Anti-Putin protests were partially funded by the US and Hillary herself told the People of Russia to protest against Putin.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16084743


https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2016/08/03/3-reasons-russias-vladimir-putin-might-want-to-interfere-in-the-u-s-presidential-elections/

Putin thinks the U.S. already did it to him first
As far as Putin and his inner circle are concerned, it was the United States that moved first to meddle in Russian politics when Putin decided to return for a third term. In 2011-’12, Russian demonstrators took to the streets to protest electoral violations in the parliamentary elections and the lack of alternative candidates to Putin in the presidential election. Putin and his inner circle believed the U.S. was to blame. Putin even asserted that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had either incited or directly financed the demonstrations.

So one of Putin’s primary objectives is to force Western leaders to back off in order to make sure this doesn’t happen again. Putin wants the United States and other Western governments to stop funding, as part of their foreign policies, organizations that promote political and economic transformations in Russia. He also wants to block U.S. officials from meeting with opposition figures and parties. From Putin’s perspective, democracy promotion is just a cover for regime change.

No doubt in my mind that we did it, and they did it, and both have done it for decades. In looking for specifics, I found this article: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-technology/active-measures-a-history-of-russian-interference-in-us-elections

One of the 'memory-jogging' bits of info is Putin's history with the KGB, and the history of the KGB's activities into our elections dating back to the cold war. The 'who did it first or most' is almost moot considering this has occurred longer than most of us have been alive.