Five@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoPutin dismissed US warnings about a potential terror incident as 'blackmail' just 3 days before concert hall attackwww.msn.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down14
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minus-squareredcalcium@lemmy.institutelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·8 months agoUS: “You should watch your border, Russia is about to invade” Ukraine: “Pfft, yeah, riight…” Later… US: “You should be careful, ISIS is about to let loose in Moscow” Russia: “Pfft, yeah, riight…”
minus-squareelvith@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51·8 months agoEveryone besides Russia: “You should watch out, Russia is about to meddle with your elections.” US: “Pfft, yeah, riight…”
minus-squareRanvier@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-28 months agoOh they knew https://www.npr.org/2018/02/21/587614043/fact-check-why-didnt-obama-stop-russia-s-election-interference-in-2016 But Republicans didn’t want to stop it, and Obama was worried if he did anything without Republican support it would look like he was tilting the scales in favor of Clinton. Which makes zero sense to me but hey that’s just what Obama thought.
minus-squareours@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoThe US went hard against Russian hackers just before the 2020 elections. They learned the lesson from 2016.
minus-squarenotabot@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 months agoHackers aren’t the only way to meddle in an election, just the easiest to categorize and deal with.
minus-squareFrostyTrichs@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·8 months ago Hackers aren’t the only way to meddle in an election, just the easiest to categorize and deal with. Convenient strawmen anyway.
US: “You should watch your border, Russia is about to invade”
Ukraine: “Pfft, yeah, riight…”
Later…
US: “You should be careful, ISIS is about to let loose in Moscow”
Russia: “Pfft, yeah, riight…”
Everyone besides Russia: “You should watch out, Russia is about to meddle with your elections.”
US: “Pfft, yeah, riight…”
Oh they knew
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/21/587614043/fact-check-why-didnt-obama-stop-russia-s-election-interference-in-2016
But Republicans didn’t want to stop it, and Obama was worried if he did anything without Republican support it would look like he was tilting the scales in favor of Clinton. Which makes zero sense to me but hey that’s just what Obama thought.
The US went hard against Russian hackers just before the 2020 elections. They learned the lesson from 2016.
Hackers aren’t the only way to meddle in an election, just the easiest to categorize and deal with.
Convenient strawmen anyway.