{"id":37089,"date":"2018-08-26T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T20:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37089"},"modified":"2018-08-26T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T20:23:21","slug":"how-to-interfere-in-a-foreign-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37089","title":{"rendered":"How to interfere in a foreign election"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<h3 class=\"article-header__headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2018\/08\/18\/how-interfere-foreign-election\/M4JZpgqpqiOsPXbTKPAu5L\/story.html\">How to interfere in a foreign election<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<aside class=\"social-tools\"><\/aside>\n<figure class=\"lead-media\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lead-media__media imagetargeting\" src=\"https:\/\/c.o0bg.com\/rf\/image_960w\/Boston\/2011-2020\/2018\/08\/17\/BostonGlobe.com\/Ideas\/Images\/clinton-yeltsin.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width:960px) 800px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c.o0bg.com\/rf\/image_960w\/Boston\/2011-2020\/2018\/08\/17\/BostonGlobe.com\/Ideas\/Images\/clinton-yeltsin.jpg 960w, https:\/\/c.o0bg.com\/rf\/image_835w\/Boston\/2011-2020\/2018\/08\/17\/BostonGlobe.com\/Ideas\/Images\/clinton-yeltsin.jpg 835w, https:\/\/c.o0bg.com\/rf\/image_460w\/Boston\/2011-2020\/2018\/08\/17\/BostonGlobe.com\/Ideas\/Images\/clinton-yeltsin.jpg 460w\" alt=\" Russian President Boris Yeltsin, left, welcomes U.S. President Bill Clinton in St. George\u2019s Hall at the Kremlin Palace, Jan. 13, 1994. This is the first meeting of the three-day summit and the two will discuss a wide variety of issues of mutual interests. (AP Photo\/Greg Gibson)\" \/><figcaption class=\"lead-media__info\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"article-content article-content--hidden\">\n<p id=\"U842854123192DXB\"><span id=\"U84285412319238E\" class=\"span\">FOR ONE OF THE<\/span> world\u2019s major powers to interfere systematically in the presidential politics of another country is an act of brazen aggression. Yet it happened. Sitting in a distant capital, political leaders set out to assure that their favored candidate won an election against rivals who scared them. They succeeded. Voters were maneuvered into electing a president who served the interest of the intervening power. This was a well-coordinated, government-sponsored project to subvert the will of voters in another country \u2014 a supremely successful piece of political vandalism on a global scale.<\/p>\n<p>The year was 1996. Russia was electing a president to succeed Boris Yeltsin, whose disastrous presidency, marked by the post-Soviet social collapse and a savage war in Chechnya, had brought his approval rating down to the single digits. President Bill Clinton decided that American interests would be best served by finding a way to re-elect Yeltsin despite his deep unpopularity. Yeltsin was ill, chronically alcoholic, and seen in Washington as easy to control. Clinton bonded with him. He was our \u201cManchurian Candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess we\u2019ve just got to pull up our socks and back ol\u2019 Boris again,\u201d Clinton told an aide. \u201cI know the Russian people have to pick a president, and I know that means we\u2019ve got to stop short of giving a nominating speech for the guy. But we\u2019ve got to go all the way in helping in every other respect.\u201d Later Clinton was even more categorical: \u201cI want this guy to win so bad it hurts.\u201d With that, the public and private resources of the United States were thrown behind a Russian presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-ad inline-ad--bordered inline-ad-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to interfere in a foreign election FOR ONE OF THE world\u2019s major powers to interfere systematically in the presidential politics of another country is an act of brazen aggression. Yet it happened. Sitting in a distant capital, political leaders set out to assure that their favored candidate won an election against rivals who scared [&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":[4850,8965,5634,18724,253,694,21417,21418,827,865],"class_list":["post-37089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bill-clinton","tag-boris-yeltsin","tag-chechnya","tag-election-meddling","tag-elections","tag-russia","tag-stephen-kinzer","tag-the-boston-globe","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37089","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=37089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37090,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37089\/revisions\/37090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}