{"id":21952,"date":"2017-05-28T00:34:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T00:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21952"},"modified":"2017-05-28T00:35:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T00:35:31","slug":"russians-able-to-declare-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21952","title":{"rendered":"Russians able to declare victory?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If you assume — as I do — that Russian spooks intended to disrupt the American political system by their hacking and disseminating “fake news,” then isn’t it fair to presume that they can declare victory?<\/p>\n

Or, to put it another way: Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n

I mean, think of it.<\/p>\n

The Russians interfered in our electoral system. U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that to be a fact. All of them concur that Russia sought to disrupt our electoral process.<\/p>\n

It’s not yet clear just how they intended to swing the election to Donald J. Trump’s favor. Trump won. He hasn’t spoken angrily about Russia. Or about Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, congressional investigators are turning themselves inside out trying to find out about the “Russia thing.” The Department of Justice has appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to lead the FBI investigation. Our attorney general has had to recuse himself from anything to do with Russia.<\/p>\n

Congressional Democrats are talking now openly about impeaching<\/em> the president. The FBI is looking at whether the Trump campaign “colluded” with Russian government operatives.<\/p>\n

And the president’s legislative agenda — health care overhaul, tax reform, building that damn wall — is stalled completely. None of it is likely to get advanced.<\/p>\n

Do you get my drift? The Russians have succeeded, actually, in accomplishing<\/em> what they intended when they got involved in our electoral process in the first place.<\/p>\n

Now, let’s all wait for the president to possibly, potentially<\/em> lessen those sanctions we leveled against the Russians for their aggression in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Is that a crazy notion? Not even …<\/p>\n\n

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If you assume — as I do — that Russian spooks intended to disrupt the American political system by their hacking and disseminating “fake news,” then isn’t it fair to presume that they can declare victory? Or, to put it another way: Mission accomplished. I mean, think of it. The Russians interfered in our electoral … Continue reading Russians able to declare victory?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[74,1424,6386,3983,6736,5125],"class_list":["post-21952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-uncategorized","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi-probe","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russian-hackers","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21959,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21952\/revisions\/21959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}