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In addition to the presidential contest, Russia, China and Cuba are looking to meddle in congressional races, the officials said.

Foreign adversaries will try to shake Americans’ confidence in the legitimacy of election results in November by giving voice to false claims or spreading their own disinformation about ballot counting, U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday.

“As we approach Election Day, the intelligence community is also stressing that foreign efforts to undermine America’s democracy won’t end on Nov. 5,” a senior intelligence official told reporters in a virtual briefing.

In its latest assessment of foreign threats to the election, intelligence officials said the main foreign powers seeking to shape the outcome of the vote — Russia, China and Iran — also were focusing on meddling in congressional and state races.


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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As will domestic adversaries.

So how do we combat that?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Prosecute them for the crimes that they have committed in broad daylight and publish the evidence widely. Further, prosecute a hybrid war against the adversary states that sponsor and incite domestic threats, with the goal of totally dismantling adversary governments by any and all means short of kinetic warfare.

It’s them or us. The choice is ours.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Letting racists continue to live was the worst mistake of the Civil War.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, Sherman didn't go nearly far enough. The former Confederacy should have been reduced to a smoldering wasteland and treated as a conquered territory with no federal representation.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Conservatives are already planning to use the hurricanes as a reason to not certify the election results. They will be pushing the decision to Congress. This is why they are acting so smug right now.

The only question I have is, "will there be a physical intervention in this final gasp of democracy?" I worry modern progressives may not be violent enough to do what's needed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think we were very foolish to declare the cold war over, and ourselves the victor, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Some even declared it to be the end of history. There's only one word for that: hubris. In reality, history continued on, and the war of ideology remains ongoing, albeit changed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah Putin's playbook is basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics, the US playbook to topple and control foreign governments remains unchanged, and now there are new players in the sandbox that want to control other nations. The war of ideology is very much at its peak.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I have a conspiracy hypothesis that Putin played a role in 9/11 and Russian influence was behind at least some of the "coincidences" that gave some of the conspiracy theories credibility. Pushing those conspiracy theories might have been one of the early Russian troll farm missions, too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Every accusation is a confession...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Does uhh.....Cuba have a big Internet hacker infrastructure?