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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSurprise! Russia playbook - here it comes again - this episode, France (Clint Watts) (Wikileaks)
Wikileaks has emails (9GB) relating to French Presidential hopeful Macron. Sound familiar at all? Hummm....
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Information gathering phase is over, now Kremlin front disseminates material- Florian Wagner
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(52,208 posts)juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)dalton99a
(81,471 posts)Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)By DGSE (French equivalent to CIA).
spanone
(135,830 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)French ambassador to D.C.. "To be expected. Last ditch offensive for a candidate preferred by a foreign govt"
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joshcryer
(62,270 posts)At what point ever?
Igel
(35,300 posts)So there's a subversively dumped pile of documents.
What next? "Oh, this shows this embarrassing and scandalous fact. However it's from a source we don't like so we will all pretend that it doesn't exist"?
I don't see this happening. We wouldn't even notice if it were, say, a French expose against Trump. Needless to say, ignoring it wouldn't happen. Any more than the dissent over what "intelligence" shows about Trump serves the primary Russian purpose, according to various reports.
It's like opposition research, no more and no less, but by another country. Countries meddle in other countries' politics. The US does. Russia does. Even Obama's endorsement of Macron is an attempt to sway the electorate.