Russian influence, the FBI, trump, McGonigal, Deripaska and 2016 elections

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Part 2 of Timothy Snyder’s piece on the spy scandal of the 2016 election, and how the major daily newspapers let the FBI off the hook for investigating the Russians while attention turned to Clinton’s ‘e-mail (non)scandal’.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-traum ... andal-part

“We cannot undo or redo 2016, but we can recognize and address our own failures. The tendency not to take other countries seriously, to imagine that all that matters is what happens here, to confuse what is said with what is happening: these are all American mistakes, which we keep making. We pay for them in the currency of conscience during this spy scandal, while Ukrainians pay for them in the currency of blood as they resist Russian invasion. It would be a shame to miss the chance to reevaluate 2016 afforded to us by this spy scandal. If we do not take this opportunity to reflect, we will deepen the trauma of that year, and ensure that is continues, through the institutions that we would like to trust, and down the generations whom we would like to spare the repetition of such terrible events.”
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Russian influence, the FBI, trump, McGonigal, Deripaska and 2016 elections

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A very interesting piece by Timothy Snyder, Yale professor of history, whose area of study is Russia and Eastern Europe. Author of numerous books on the area, he is also one of the foremost scholars on authoritarian and totalitarian movements. I just finished his book ‘On Tyranny’, which I recommend.

Worth a read: https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-spect ... medium=web

A sample from his conclusion:

“The Russian operation to get Trump elected in 2016 was real. We are still living under the specter of 2016, and we are closer to the beginning of the process or learning about it than we are to the end. Denying that it happened, or acting as though it did not happen, makes the United States vulnerable to Russian influence operations that are still ongoing, sometimes organized by the same people. It is easy to forget about 2016, and human to want to do so. But democracy is about learning from mistakes, and this arrest makes it very clear that we still have much to learn.”

In short, guilty donnie has hoodwinked us all, big time.
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