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If you think Russia’s ‘troll farm’ is bad, you’d better research the CIA: JOHN GREEN writes on cyber warfare
The US and Britain have interfered in national elections worldwide for decades from Iran to Chile and elsewhere which makes the present protestations about Russia downright laughable, writes JOHN GREEN
VICTIMS OF US INTERFERENCE: Mohammad Mosaddegh and Salvador Allende

IT IS already almost three decades now since Russia was a communist country, so something had to be found to create a new enemy to justify a continued armaments build-up and aggressive policies.

It is now classed as enemy No.1 in the cyber war field.

There is little doubt that the Russians have been involved in probing US cyber security and testing its reliability, but is that such en egregious and dangerous crime as portrayed in the West?

‘Have we ever tried to meddle in other people’s elections?’
‘Oh probably but it was for the good
of the system to avoid the communists from taking over’

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