You either misunderstood what I meant - and what the guy I copied and pasted meant - or you are being deliberately obtuse.
There is no way these 13 Russians - or any other number of Russians - or anyone else - had any “influence” on this election. At all. None.
Hillary was a shoe-in until they announced the results. If these guys had been effective at all it would have shown up in the polls long before election day. People didn’t suddenly wake up and vote Trup - or anyone else - based on a bunch of bullshit posted on social media.
Hillary lost because she came off like a drunk old bat of a neighbor who is always stirring shit up. Not to mention her past...
And even if some Russians (or Brits or Turks or Frogs or whoever) bought the ads and placed fake stories, it is neither serious nor repugnant nor “hacking” nor any of the other things they are calling it. It’s a joke is what it is. The US government does much worse than this trying to influence elections everywhere. It seems pretty saucy for us to get our panties all in a bunch because a few Russians - even if Putin paid them himself - put up a few ads and created some Facebook events.
As for all that other crap - we reap what we’ve sown. If we would stop believing we have the right to go into other people’s countries and tell them how to live we would be a lot better off.
Bring our military home. Offer to trade with whomever we deem we like. Do so fairly. And tell everyone, everywhere that if someone attacks us, we turn their country into a parking lot.
Problem solved.
You misunderstood me.
I agree with you that Russian influence did not have impact on outcome.
I am saying that separate from elections. Regardless of who won or who the American president is: Russia does pose a threat and everybody who tries to say to them: “reset” or “lets be friends” and “good bye, Middle East is all yours” is in for a rude awakening.