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In reply to the discussion: Time to face facts: Assange played the left like a fiddle on TPP [View all]ronnie624
(5,764 posts)But so is a quasi-legal system of bribery that subordinates the will of the people to billions of dollars in campaign donations, only that is much closer to home.
If the official conspiracy theory is true, then the hacking of the DNC emails, was nothing more than a standard covert operation that is carried out all over the world, by many countries, including the United States. It is absolutely nothing to start a war over. The best way to keep your secrets, is to make sure they're secure.
There is conclusive evidence, that the US meddled in Russian elections, in a far, far bigger way, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The West has also, led by the US, expanded a hostile alliance, right up to the Russian border, facilitated violent revolution in neighboring countries, and regularly conducted aggressive military exercises off the Russian coast. This threatens Russian economic and military security, and seeks to reduce its influence, in its own region of the world. This is truly provocative conduct, that generates the risk of war.
People need to stop hyperventilating before it leads to disaster.