Jeff Feckless may be just as guilty as the rest of them.
This latest story about Russians planting news stories on social media designed to inflame racial tensions (basically bad things about black people) strikes me as a carefully crafted double-false-flag sort of water-muddying exercise whose real aim is to plant a trail of bread-crumbs for later exploitation.
The real time impact of these stories was zero. They were too vaguely worded in a political context to have any measurable impact on the election. For every voter who said, “I don’t like this sort of thing, I’m voting Trump,” there would be another who said, “I see proof here of racial injustice, I’m voting Clinton.”
If there was any thought out strategy at all, it was to give substance to any future false news about Russian collusion. And the only people smart enough and devious enough to figure this out in advance would be Putin, Medvedev and Obama, hence Obama’s cryptic comment, “I can be more useful in my second term.”
Apparently so.
What I conclude from all this is that globalists are using their international connections to destabilize politics in the United States, so that only globalists can wield power. Putin doesn’t care, he’s no globalist himself but maybe he got paid, and maybe he would prefer to see a chaos descend on his old ideological enemy. The idea that he prefers Trump is just conjecture and not proven out by events since the election.