Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections [pdf]

Re:Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US ... by Zigurd on Friday January 06, 2017 @04:59PM (#13340655)

Is there a point to your relativism? I can hold that Russia is partly to blame, and should be punished for enabling a minority of Americans to elect a highly damaging president, AND I can hold that the US is heavy-handed in, for example, managing "democracy" in Turkey and that leads to problems.

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Re:Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US ... by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:08PM (#13340741)

And the USA should be punished for it's mischievousness?

You left that out both times.

It feels like a lot of US folk are still in the blame-somebody-else stage of grieving.

Is it Russia's fault the US electoral college system allows a minority to elect the president?

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Re:Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US ... by basch on Friday January 06, 2017 @07:30PM (#13341609)

What does that have to do with anything?

If an external country convinced 60% of a population to vote against its establishment (and for the sake of argument, their (the voters) own self interest), it is immune from punishment because it convinced a minority?

We now want to punish countries that say different things than Americans agree with? Speaking Pro-Trumps and Anti-Clinton statements is VERY different than false propaganda.

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Re:Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US ... by Zigurd on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:23PM (#13340860)

Should the US be punished? One could conclude that the coup in Turkey failed because many Turks thought so. Similarly, Russia should not get away with pumping up our racists.

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