We've been over this.
1. "Meddling" is not new. This mode of meddling is new, and carries new implications for normal political process.
2.(Fairly productive) Russian attempts to install Russia-friendly right-wing governments throughout the world is alarming in itself, assuming you don't hate America/Western Europe more than anything.
3. US misconduct excuses nothing of Russian misconduct, without reflexively excusing the US misconduct in turn and leaving one flapping in the breeze.
4. We know Russia supported Trump - they supported him
for the purpose of creating political instability. Further muddying the waters after the election (continuous since that time, up to now), especially after Trump has his foreign policy maneuvering checked by Congress and media, is a logical and consistent step.
5. Targeted efforts outside legal constraint may be more effective than across-the-board spending in a heavily-monitored organization. As far as full-time employees, the indictment refers to "hundreds" at the IRA while the
Clinton campaign maintained 3900-4200 (~900 + ~3000) and the
Trump campaign ~900.
6. This story does not relate to the other elements of the Russian effort to undermine the election, and it's rather inelegant to deride them individually as unimpressive if you know the totality is greater.
7. To repeat, we are still under attack, and there is nothing on the public agenda to counter ongoing Russian efforts. It might be easier to acknowledge nonchalance if the government had already taken effective action against the ratf***ing.
If ultimately a concrete and knowing quid-pro-quo is revealed and Trump judged guilty of various crimes, I
hope you wouldn't feel the need to point out that it's either not that a big deal since there hadn't (hopefully) been an explicit Trumpian coup attempt, a civil war, or thousands of political dissidents disappeared, or else that we deserve it all for having similarly compromised the leadership of other countries.
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