This Is How We Beat Putin's Attacks on Our Democracy

[DonViejo]

“Hysterical War Drummer,” by USSR propagandist Alexander Zhitomirsky

This article first appeared on the History News Network.

Whether one believes Russia successfully hacked the United States presidential election or not is immaterial.

There’s just too much incriminating evidence surrounding the hack – both from our own intelligence agencies and numerous journalistic investigations – which indicates Russia did as much and with abundance. But “hack” is the wrong word. Russians did not cybercrime their way past encrypted gateways to gain entrance into software and hyper-sensitive, confidential data. What they did was merely pull on historic propaganda strings.

Negative relations between Russia and the United States go back a full century, at the least. Russia lobbed propaganda our way, and the USA lobbed propaganda in their direction. Americans had grown so accustomed to this propaganda war that it was parodied: think “Spy vs. Spy” comics in Mad Magazine.

Rather than thinking in terms of hacking, an online reference that owes its existence to the totality of the twenty-first-century, it’s best to think in terms of continuity.

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[Cary]

1. Haven't heard the term "kleptocracy" in a long time

Russia, a country the size of the U.S. and Canada combined, has a GDP the size of Italy. Kleptocracy is not good government. Why anyone would emulate this is a mystery, unless they were bought like #fakepresident.

Putin is a criminal. #fakepresident is a criminal. The hacking is just part of their bast criminal enterprise.

[Achilleaze]

2. republicans will not lift a finger to defend America

disgraceful. Rather than strengthening America's defenses, they are weakening our ability to defend and protect the USA

[Irish_Dem]

3. They do not care about America. They are loyal to money and power. Nothing else. nt