"A Russian government think tank controlled by Vladimir Putin developed a plan to swing the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump and undermine voters' faith in the American electoral system, three current and four former U.S. officials told Reuters.

They described two confidential documents from the think tank as providing the framework and rationale for what U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded was an intensive effort by Russia to interfere with the Nov. 8 election. U.S. intelligence officials acquired the documents, which were prepared by the Moscow-based Russian Institute for Strategic Studies [en.riss.ru/], after the election."

reuters

They wanted a weaker America, and they got it.

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

Perhaps they were hoping for a more isolationist administration. They may have misjudged.

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Replace turf grass with native plants that don't need irrigation and synthetic fertilizers or chemicals that can go into our waterways and ocean

Who knows, we can't be global if trump doesn't know where the fleet is.


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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

Trump voters are either:

1. Communist sympathizers
   
2. Easily manipulated/duped into doing something against the greater good of America

AND

1. No surfing krill
   

I think they were more just looking for a more divided America with weak, ineffectual buffoonish leadership. They scored.

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

You can't rule out the extent to which it was a personal grudge against Clinton by Putin also.

These autocrats all seem to have thin skin.


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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

They are hard at work trying to undermine French and german elections right now. They have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams in the country that checked them the most and now they are circling around for the allies. Make Russia Great Again, its no longer just for the GOP, its now for Krauts and Frogs.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.