The US funds political activism in countries including western allies constantly and does much worse in less friendly regimes.<p>Russia interfering with US elections is a problem for the US but it's a given fact since the dawn of diplomacy and geopolitics.<p>21 years ago this was on the cover of Time:
<a href="http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html</a><p>Now everyone is mad because Trump doesn't seem to fit the general agenda of the centrist and left leaning media.<p>I don't like Trump either but bitching about Russia is hypercritical and also pointless.<p>If the climate wasn't right Russia wouldn't been able to get Trump 1000 extra votes.
Maybe we should look to how we got to a place where polarizing populist candidates without even the slightest shred of credibility are electable in the first place.
The United States has been disrupting, corrupting, and in some cases, overthrowing elections for decades. Now all of a sudden another country as the audacity to screw with our elections and suddenly everyone is shocked! So much hypocrisy. If you want to really see how an election can be corrupted, and thrown, just wait to Zuckerberg runs for President.
It's funny how $100k of pro-Trump facebook ads by a foreign entity is a crime against humanity.<p>But like Obama actively campaigning for politicians in other countries [0] or the US getting involved in god knows how many other elections is like totally... meh.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-elections-20161213-story.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-...</a>