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Who’s Really Behind Russian Interference in America?
I think I know.
It’s obvious, now that I see it.
I’m reading a story in the New York Times about how the Kremlin has schemed for years to blame its interference in our 2016 presidential election on Ukraine — when it hits me. It’s clear who’s behind it all.
To review: a big, powerful government — which has its own issues for sure, but it’s expert at deflecting attention away from them by belittling others — uses every underhanded, manipulative trick it can think of to whittle away at its rival country.
You know, the country it pretends to be friends with now, even though it wasn’t very long ago that the two of them hated each other openly? That one.
And guess what?
All the rumor-spreading and the misinformation and pitting factions against each other starts to pay off. After a few years, the rival country is so full of internal division, its citizens so distrustful of their leaders, their institutions, and their news outlets that none of them know what to believe or who to listen to anymore.
So they start screaming at each other instead, and it’s all a hot mess.
