I don't know if I quantified US election manipulation; I think it's fair to take it for granted that most 20th century Central American elections were manipulat

I don't know if I quantified US election manipulation; I think it's fair to take it for granted that most 20th century Central American elections were manipulated by the United States. Does this satisfy your requirement? Your allusion to Sentry Eagle feeding information to HUMINT is pretty transitive; by that logic, Taco Bell helps HUMINT because they have a franchise in the CIA food court. (Not to mention, a CNA program has nothing to do with information gathering) True, stated vs observed are different. I believe the US and French stated match the observed, while the new Chinese statement hasn't been definitively established (detected Chinese intrusions in U.S. companies have sharply decreased, but maybe they improved tradecraft). Russian statements recently are bizarre and serve to promote their new "question everything, including facts" PR push. Most likely the path forward to deescalate the defensive Russian position is to limit aggressive NATO maneuvers, e.g. reconsider emplacing the missile defense installations in peripheral NATO states.