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[–] Somali 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

IMO the Russians are behind this in a completely different way. They're not trying to buy influence or shit like that, but trying to tank Russophobia as a brand (up until now it has been the single most profitable brand for neocons and the military industrial complex, scaremonger with muh Russians and you can get anything approved). So they leak a few drops of blood in the water to get the sharks like Graham and McCain to go crazy and accuse everyone of being Russian plants and working for Putin but don't actually do anything that exposes them even remotely. Then the witch hunt falls apart because of how full of retarded and full of double standards it is (meeting with Russian ambassador like everyone has always done is now super bad, but only for some people, etc), and because it's the most nationalist and patriotic Americans who are accused of being Russian plants the accusations are dead on arrival and just make the accusers looks like rambling warmongering retards to the general public. As a result "the Russians hacked me" is the new "my dog ate my homework" and Russia has been memed as a quirky harmless conservative values country that's used by unlikable snarky cunts to shit on everyone. People are openly questioning why they shouldn't be allied with to go after ISIS, why we don't cooperate with them, etc. As a result Russophobia as a brand is pretty much going the way of WMDs (once also a super potent scare tactic/massive neocon brand), and scaremongering via the Russians soon won't mean anything to the general public.