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More beating of the drum for war with Russia.
by draw_down 10y ago
More beating of the drum for war with Russia.
- tptacek 10y agoCan you draw up a set of guidelines for what facts we are and are not allowed to discuss here in the US for fear that we might be encouraging a war with Russia?
- draw_down 10y agoFirst of all, I didn't say anything about what we are "allowed" to discuss here. I just think we should be honest with ourselves about what we're doing (by "we" I mean America, not HN). I remember what it was like when we were leading up to war with Iraq and all the intimations about Russia of late feel the same way to me. Lots of big accusations that are baseless but sound truthy. As far as this particular piece of news, I would push back by suggesting that the Democrats blew the election by running a crappy campaign with a charisma-less DC insider that Americans mostly dislike. Do I then get to accuse the DNC and everyone who pushed for Clinton against her primary opponents of colluding with Russia? I expect not.
- pyvpx 10y agobaseless? a current, active Russian politician (whose name and position escape me) publicly said 'we might have helped with Wikileaks' it's far from baseless -- no matter how (correctly) suspicious one is of anything the NSA says.
- qb45 10y agoReportedly it was said by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Alexandrovich_Markov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Alexandrovich_Markov Seems legit ;)