{"id":31272,"date":"2018-02-20T08:32:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31272"},"modified":"2018-02-20T08:32:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:32:26","slug":"americas-election-meddling-would-indeed-justify-other-countries-retaliating-in-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31272","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Election Meddling Would Indeed Justify Other Countries Retaliating In\u00a0Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"
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America\u2019s Election Meddling Would Indeed Justify Other Countries Retaliating In\u00a0Kind<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Highlighting the U.S.\u2019s long history in meddling in other countries\u2019 elections is not \u201cwhataboutism,\u201d but rather a highly germane point to understanding the context for the allegations of Russian meddling in Election 2016, Caitlin Johnstone observes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There is still no clear proof that the Russian government interfered with the 2016 U.S. election in any meaningful way. Which is weird, because Russia and every other country on earth would be perfectly justified in doing so.<\/p>\n

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Former CIA Director James Woolsey admitting on national television that the United States routinely meddles in other countries\u2019 elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Like every single hotly publicized Russiagate \u201cbombshell\u201d that has broken since this nonsense began, Mueller\u2019s indictment of 13 Russian social media trolls was paraded around as proof of something hugely significant (an \u201cact of war\u201d<\/a> in this case), but on closer examination turns out to be empty.<\/p>\n

The always excellent Moon of Alabama recently made a solid argument<\/a> that has also been advanced by Russiagate skeptics like TYT\u2019s Michael Tracey<\/a> and Max Blumenthal<\/a> of The Real News, pointing out that there is in fact no evidence that the troll farming operation was an attempt to manipulate the U.S. election, nor indeed that it had any ties to the Russian government at all, nor indeed that it was anything other than a crafty Russian civilian\u2019s money making scheme.<\/p>\n

The notion that a few Russian trolls committed a \u201cconspiracy to defraud the United States\u201d by \u201csowing discord\u201d with a bunch of wildly contradictory posts endorsing all sorts of different ideologies sounds completely ridiculous in a country whose mainstream media spends all its time actively creating political division anyway, but when you look at it as a civilian operation to attract social media followers to sock puppet accounts with the goal of selling promoted posts for profit, it makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n

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America\u2019s Election Meddling Would Indeed Justify Other Countries Retaliating In\u00a0Kind Highlighting the U.S.\u2019s long history in meddling in other countries\u2019 elections is not \u201cwhataboutism,\u201d but rather a highly germane point to understanding the context for the allegations of Russian meddling in Election 2016, Caitlin Johnstone observes. There is still no clear proof that the Russian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17039,6963,18724,694,827],"class_list":["post-31272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-consortium-news","tag-election-meddling","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31273,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31272\/revisions\/31273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}