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VDH is a great historian and social commentator.

But he sucks as a political analyst.

This is little more than regurgitated Neocon spittle from NRO.

Russia has ALWAYS tried to influence US elections. Going back to the founding of the Soviet Union. They have even infiltrated high government office (Alger Hiss) in an effort to alter US action, and to spy.

There is nothing new to what Russia is doing. Nothing.

Yet what IS new is an administration using this known activity to justify spying on its political opponents, violating innumerable laws in the process.

And that spying is the only new thing here. Not a “resurgent, hostile” Russia.

Agreed. Basically VDH story is that one day for reasons we never fully understood, Russia seized Crimea and moved into Syria. Not a word about us flipping them the finger in Libya and unleashing a Sunni insurgency in Syria to remove an ally of several decades. Next the McCain Neuland Soros nazi coup in Kiev designed to put NATO directly against their border and turn Sevastopol into a NATO navy base. Then the 2011 elections, Hillary HERSELF tried to get a color revolution going inside Russia.

Then we get the incessant whining of the EU about Russian oil and gas. The EU wants to own and run the Russian oil and Gas industry from wellhead to pipeline to end user. Ive never seen a customer so hell bent on dictating to a monopoly they buy from. (*and created by their own green policies)

Last, I think it is often underestimated how Obama’s homosexual past came into play here. The very first rumbling of discord between us and Russia came when president stompy foot bitterly opposed the ST Petersburg and Moscow anti-homo recruiting and parading laws. Obama and Hillary took that very personally.

Russia has ALWAYS tried to influence US elections. Going back to the founding of the Soviet Union. They have even infiltrated high government office (Alger Hiss) in an effort to alter US action, and to spy.
There is nothing new to what Russia is doing. Nothing.

Yet what IS new is an administration using this known activity to justify spying on its political opponents, violating innumerable laws in the process. And that spying is the only new thing here. Not a “resurgent, hostile” Russia.

Bingo! It's also more likely the dossier was created to cover for spying on political opponents - Republican candidates - - than the other way around.

-- And that spying is the only new thing here. --

It's not new. The only reason it "got this big" is that the public rejected the uniparty offerings for the presidency.