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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As will domestic adversaries.
So how do we combat that?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When Trump steals the election libs are going to accuse me of being a Russian bot for saying the election was stolen.
Is that the plan? Will be a pleasant change from seeing you campaigning for Donald every day. I guess you would be accused of being a Russian bot as soon as you are able to openly support the invasion of Ukraine.
Instead of wasting your time being mad at leftists for not voting for genocide, you should be paying attention to the election “”“reforms”“” passed by election deniers. Georgia in particular has been turned from a swing state into a guaranteed steal for Trump.
When the election is stolen by Trump you’d better focus on fighting back against him instead of stupid infighting.
Politics doesn’t only happen when you vote every few years. Be prepared to actually work with people to stop Trump after the election is over, and that’s going to include people who voted Green or PSL or stayed home.
I agree it is going to happen and plan to struggle against it, but it absolutely will be easier to fight back if Harris has a large number of votes. That’s why Ukraine genocide and Ohio pogrom lovers are campaigning for Donald every day.
You’re campaigning for the pogroms happening in the West Bank and the actual genocide happening in Gaza.
Pound sand, hypocrite.
No, that shit is repugnant. I don’t want Donald to make it worse, therefore I am selecting the only viable outcome that is not Donald.
You love that genocide, you love the invasion of Ukraine, and you are eager for pogroms to start up in the US. That’s why you are campaigning for Donald every day.
“You need to stop infighting with me and prepare to join up against Donald and the absolute fascism of the Repubs. He’s plotting to steal the election. We have to take action!” You cannot be serious that you are going to throw your ballot in the trash and then panic about Donald afterward. Panic so hard that you join your hated enemies, the Dems, against him. This is not a serious position.
If Harris knew that she was going to lose because of her support for genocide she would stop supporting genocide. It is your fault that Democrats are continuing to support Israel, because you are literally voting for genocide and pogroms. They believe they can win without leftists like me because blue-no-matter-whos like you will vote for them even if Harris killed your whole family.
We need to purge the Democratic Party of Zionists or else we’re going to go to a bipartisan war with Iran. That’s the best viable outcome. Force Democrats to see that they can not continue to support Israel and force a realignment within the Party structure.
She will lose if she declares direct opposition because of campaign finance bullshit. Campaign finance bullshit exists because in 2010 a Repub SCOTUS decided that unlimited propaganda is fine. Your solution? “The status quo is despicable. Let’s allow the Repubs to make it worse.” A diligent MAGA campaigner.
The Dems do not realign to the left if they lose an election. They drift further right looking for people who will actually show up and cast their votes in a way that matters to the outcome. If you wanted progressives writing policies the way to do that is by making it impossible for a MAGA to win anywhere.
Of course, that’s not your strategy, since you actually embrace the current genocide and hope for more from the far right.
