Hillary Clinton and her official mainstream news propagandist Rachel Maddow continue to irrationally claim, without any evidence whatsoever, that Russia is influencing American elections. Not only have all the Russia allegations brought by Clinton and the Steele Dossier they were based on been completely debunked (by former FBI director Robert Mueller among others) but 'Russiagate' is now considered (by the FBI) to be a grand propaganda hoax--the biggest fraud in American history.
Nevertheless, Maddow and Clinton continue to spread vitriolic, ridiculous rumours and allegations against Putin and Russia and any American who dares to go off script and argue that the Ukraine conflict was completely provoked by the US and NATO's determination to militarily encircle Russia's borders.
Clinton is still sniveling and whining that she lost an election eight 4years ago because of Russian interference--not because she has a toxic personality, or because she ran a shitty campaign, or because she supported a manipulative, mercenary neoliberal political party that so many Americans grew to despise after they deep-sixed Bernie Sanders and betrayed the working class--no, she lost because of Russia. Not just Putin and Russians but Russia-sympathizing Americans.
In fact, in a recent Rachel Maddow interview Clinton expressed her desire to hold Americans (Russian Stooges!!) civilly and criminally responsible for espousing opinions supportive or sympathetic to Russia. Don't like what someone says about you? Hate it when they dispute your allegations or disagree with your political views? Then criminalize their speech. So much for the 1st Amendment.
What is laughable (and rather despicable) about all this is that there is one and only one country that long ago won the Grand Prize for interfering in the politics and elections of other nations: The USA. Dov Levin, an academic from the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University, has calculated that there were 117 partisan overt and covert known interventions in foreign elections from 1946 to 2000--rigging polls, supporting military coups, channeling funds and spreading political propaganda in other countries.
However, we're not just talking about 'election interference'. The CIA has been involved in multiple assassinations and targeted killings of foreign leaders for the last 75 years. The US has supported or indirectly funded coups and regime change in foreign countries around the world since the 1950's: Iran, 1953; Guatemala 1954; Syria 1957; Indonesia 1957; Iraq 1959; Congo, 1960; The Dominican Republic, 1961; South Vietnam 1963; Iraq 1963; Brazil 1964; Cambodia 1970; Chile, 1973; Bolivia 1971; East Timor 1975-99; Argentina 1976; Afghanistan 1979-92; Nicaragua 1981-90; Grenada 1983; Soviet Union/Russia 1986-91; Iraq 1991-2021; Haiti 1991; Venezuela 2002; Palestine 2006-7; Syria 2012-2017; Bolivia 2019; Venezuela 2019-2022
So, the history of US foreign policy after World War II can be summed up as the continuous subversion and overthrow of foreign regimes that it didn't like or who dared to defy American marching orders. This often involved encouraging military and civilian violence to destroy popular organizations that might offer the majority of the population an opportunity to enter the political arena and move their country towards people-centered rather than corporate-centered politics. The putative reason for all this 'interference' has always been to 'spread American-style democracy.' What in the world could that mean?
Well, exporting American-style democracy is essentially supporting political regimes that hold regular elections but completely disallow any serious challenge to neoliberal corporate capitalist rule, or American geopolitical or resource interests. In other words, it means adopting a 'rules-based economic order which must be understood as: "WE make the rules, YOU follow orders.
Of course, if you want to talk with any seriousness or geopolitical acuity about foreign interference in American elections you'd best fix your attention not on Putin or Russia, but on Zionist Israeli lobbies and the corporatized military, industrial, surveillance, education complex.
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