This is such a circular and convenient argument. It's next to impossible to get to any conclusion other than "Russia Bad". All you have to do to trigger this d

This is such a circular and convenient argument. It's next to impossible to get to any conclusion other than "Russia Bad". All you have to do to trigger this downward spiral/feed-back loop is to start an aura of "illegitimacy" and it's all downhill from there. Next thing you know, polls are "suspect", and "independent inspectors found evidence of". Or there was "intimidation at the polls". Then the government becomes a "dictatorship". Then it's magically no longer a democracy. Then it becomes a "regime" and all their wealthy elite become "oligarchs". Etc etc. The dirty secret and why Russians and anti-west individuals are right is that these properties above magically start disappearing when the "right" people get elected. If it's a democratic election and the "wrong" person wins, then that must mean that the polls were tampered with. You can clearly see it in the drastically different rhetoric coming from the media when Trump won (it was due to Russian interference and hacking and bots and how Trump is now a dictator and how the "Far-Right" took over the whitehouse etc etc). But when Biden won and the other camp screamed election fraud, the narrative changed entirely and it was all about defending the legitimacy of the election.