15-10-2016, 12:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 15-10-2016, 01:54 PM by John Knoble.)
Quote:However, Putin how openly stated that Russia hasn't and wouldn't interfere in the US democratic process (not that it's democratic mind you).
Russia is professionally managed by a former intelligence agent, and we would be at a serious disadvantage if our policies were truly subject to random drift every four years based on who can put on the best show in what amounts to a dressed-up seventh grade student council election. The system has obviously been tweaked to protect our national interests from that. The mythologists are part of it. The latest generation of them has a tendency to be trite, which has exhausted credibility they'll need when the economic issues caused by too much debt become an crisis again. It seems they don't like Trump, but who knows, reverse psychology isn't a very sophisticated tactic.
Putin is well situated to point out flaws in the Western mythology, but that doesn't mean he has our interests at heart, no more than we had the interests of ordinary Russians at heart when Pravda was dissembling to prop up their failing mythology before the Soviet economy collapsed.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if Russia has been covertly involved in digging us a deeper hole in the debt crisis, with agents of influence on Wall Street, three letter agencies and Capitol Hill. Maybe even to a greater extent in the UK and continental Europe.
I hope we have our priorities in order to investigate such things. It is troubling to read reports of law enforcement being held back because of clubbiness between politicians or donors who have deep pockets.