I don’t know if it is that “innocent.” I’d like to know who hired these Russians, where their funding came from. Would it lead right back around and bite the rats in the @ss once again?
That is certainly possible and worth investigating.
I still think it was stupid to issue these indictments and publicly accuse Russia of “meddling in our elections.” Usually that kind of agitprop is handled more subtly by our intelligence community by disrupting their agitprop or applying our own covert disruption against the offending nation.
We do it, they do it, everybody does it. By making it an in-your-face accusation we’ve just invited some very unpleasant very public retaliation. Potentially against innocent American citizens involved in nothing more than legitimate international business.
Muslim Barack Obama with Mohamed Abdi, Somali
Muslim candidate for Mandera East, Kenya, who lost.