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longwayhome -> RE: Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House (12/16/2016 10:23:11 PM)
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I am amazed at all the partisan point scoring here - or maybe I'm not given the recent US election campaign.
There's only one significant issue here, whatever the exact truth is about the hacks - Russia is not your friend. They don't act like your friend. And they don't share your interests, economic, cultural or political. Russia, as a huge state on the edge of Europe, has pursued its own course and interests for years, only occasionally having joint interests with western Europe, and who can blame them, but they are not the friends of the West even when they have fought on the same side in wars. This is not cold war rhetoric but a situation that has pertained for hundreds of years.
Putin reckons he will have an easier time dealing with a Trump Whitehouse and no-one would seriously deny that, but for most of us who don't have an ocean or two between us and one of the most powerful countries in the world, Russian aggression is only too real and only too close to home.
Did Putin personally organise the hacks? Who knows? But given Russian involvement in other incidents like taking down a France's TV5, it's hardly that far fetched.
If I was American and supported Hilary, I might be concerned that the Russians swung the election result. Possibly, possibly not? The far greater concern is that the US has a businessman president elect, whose friends, cronies and recent appointees are such strong Russophiles that Putin is likely to go unchallenged for many years whatever he does. Well it wont involve invading the US, so that's okay then.
Sadly the American people have just elected a businessman, with wide ranging business interests which he is not going to give up, despite the restrictions of convention and constitution, and who is positively pursuing his business interests through the political machine.
We call that corruption. America used to call it corruption too.
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