snipelfritz wrote:Disarm D'arcy wrote:There's still something I'd like to understand. How does a foreign power actually influences an election? (seriously, in every article I have read, it's postulated, never explained or demonstrated)
Yeah, the key is the word influence in the most indirect sense. They (allegedly) illegally accessed and made public information which may or may not have have impacted voters' decisions.
I hear you. But ain't this somewhat consistent? Isn't it what the US government does when they show up everywhere around the EU around election time to push "the right choice"?
snipelfritz wrote:The implication that Russian leaders are playing favorites with the candidate who happened to win is a much larger concern.
Can you elaborate a little?
To me Trump's election was somewhat geopolitical good news. Means the non aligned friendlies will be left alone because the US-Russia relationship will warm up and this new cold war atmosphere is now gone. The atlanticists in the old Europe are gonna have to think twice before they say they want to follow crazy blonde duck. This climate is propitious to a world/UN resolution of the ISIS/middle east crisis we all have to suffer from, because diplomacy now has the floor and the recent events regarding Turkey means that it's now in everyone's interest to make the middle eastern states that are neck deep into creating and reaping the fruits of the overall destabilization of the region that this is gonna stop or else they'll get fucked real bad.