{"id":36679,"date":"2018-08-14T19:01:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36679"},"modified":"2018-08-14T19:01:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:01:48","slug":"worried-about-election-interference-5-clear-times-the-us-meddled-in-elections-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36679","title":{"rendered":"Worried About Election Interference? 5 Clear Times the US Meddled in Elections Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-title\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsalert.com\/election-interference-us-abroad\">Worried About Election Interference? 5 Clear Times the US Meddled in Elections Abroad<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-post\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<figure class=\"feature-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsalert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/American_Eagle_by_Theodore_Roszak_US_Embassy_London.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsalert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/American_Eagle_by_Theodore_Roszak_US_Embassy_London.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/geopoliticsalert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/American_Eagle_by_Theodore_Roszak_US_Embassy_London-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geopoliticsalert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/American_Eagle_by_Theodore_Roszak_US_Embassy_London-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geopoliticsalert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/American_Eagle_by_Theodore_Roszak_US_Embassy_London-500x303.jpg 500w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"620\" \/><\/figure>\n<article>\n<div class=\"apss-social-share apss-theme-4 clearfix\">\n<div class=\"apss-facebook apss-single-icon\">Washington D.C. (GPA) \u2013 If you read any article about the \u201cRussian hacking\u201d or \u201cU.S. election interference\u201d you will likely see some reference to the U.S.\u2019s own long history of election interference. Yet most of these articles defend the U.S. by claiming that such interference campaigns dropped off significantly since the end of the Cold War.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This assumption, however, is fundamentally wrong. In the past 15 years alone, there are many cases of the U.S. interfering in the Democratic process of foreign nations. Below are some of the worst examples of this election interference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nazis and Hand-Picked Leaders in Ukraine, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the mainstream media blames Russia for the civil war in Ukraine, the truth is that the West started the conflict. The crisis began in 2013 when Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych rejected an EU offer of closer economic cooperation and instead chose to pursue closer economic ties with Russia<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. then decided it was time for a new government in Kiev. In an entirely illegal process, pro-western politicians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/apr\/30\/russia-ukraine-war-kiev-conflict\">seized power<\/a> from the democratically elected Yanukovych. It was later revealed in a leaked<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-26079957\"> phone call<\/a> that the U.S. handpicked leaders of this new illegal government. The U.S. even supported Ukrainian <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/359609-the-reality-of-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-is-far-from-kremlin-propaganda\">neo-nazis<\/a> and other far-right fascist organizations that supported the Western coup. When Ukrainian rebels in the east took up arms against the new Western-backed government, the country plunged into a civil war that continues to this day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19922\" src=\"http:\/\/geopoliticsalert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/nicolxs_maduro_pruebas_1.jpg_1718483346.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsalert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/nicolxs_maduro_pruebas_1.jpg_1718483346.jpg 600w, https:\/\/geopoliticsalert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/nicolxs_maduro_pruebas_1.jpg_1718483346-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geopoliticsalert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/nicolxs_maduro_pruebas_1.jpg_1718483346-500x283.jpg 500w\" alt=\"maduro venezuela releases evidence assassination\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro<br \/>\nImage: Twitter \u2013 Prensa Presidencial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Election Interference in Venezuela, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s main attacks against Venezuela have generally occurred through sanctions and economic warfare, but the U.S. has also meddled in Caracas\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worried About Election Interference? 5 Clear Times the US Meddled in Elections Abroad Washington D.C. (GPA) \u2013 If you read any article about the \u201cRussian hacking\u201d or \u201cU.S. election interference\u201d you will likely see some reference to the U.S.\u2019s own long history of election interference. Yet most of these articles defend the U.S. by claiming [&hellip;]<\/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":[21238,18724,21239,827],"class_list":["post-36679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-brandon-stout","tag-election-meddling","tag-geopolitics-alert","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36679","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=36679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36680,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36679\/revisions\/36680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}