Macron confirms massive hack just ahead of election

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18. The underlying and rather frightening truth

Is that Russia has become so weak that such operations, aiming essentially at discrediting western political systems and therefore at banalizing its authoritarian regime, are the only remaining option.
Russia's economy is barely limping. Increasing number of its people express discontent. Technology is sinking. As their ships. Moral authority is non-existent. The only option is to play the pride card over and over again with increasing irrelevance and diminishing return.
Humiliated Russia attempts to soothe itself by humiliating others and delivering this humiliation to the public. Russia does not care who wins or where. Opportunistic infections as the one plaguing the american system develop in its wake but the strategic goal is already met, regardless of which idiot wins here or there.
Once that last ditch medicine is used up and the body still fails, the very only option left is a conflagration and the explosion of substantial violence somewhere. Or everywhere.
That is the ugly truth. And it does not bode well.