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kleinbl00 · 1834 days ago · link · · parent · post: September 5: Trump tries to force Ukraine to meddle in the 2020 election
But more than that, the point they make is that the Soviets never faced any blowback because the Soviets never face any blowback and really, the American intelligence community is its own worst enemy because whenever shit like this happens the primary result is intramural warfare and finger-pointing. Haseltine makes the point that if the Russians didn’t want us to know they’d hacked the election, we wouldn’t know they hacked the election. That if they didn’t want us to know it was them poisoning Sergei Skripal, they wouldn’t have used an agent so readily traceable to them. And that really, the best thing we as a country can do is band the fuck together and recognize that the outer enemy is always worse than the inner enemy.