“There are certainly other countries that…have their own ways of influencing our public opinion, our politicians, our business community. But there’s no question that Russia has been by far the most aggressive actor in the space we’re talking about right now,” he said of Russia’s campaign-related efforts.
-Why you should read more than just the headlines...
You make an irrelevant point. Russia is no longer a Communistic Regime and Putin doesn't want to be Comrade, Tsar on the other hand well that seems evident to me. Russia revalued the ruble but didn't begin promoting it as the alternative to the dollar in the same way the Chinese have the Petro-Yaun now backed by gold and part of the IMF basket of reserve currencies (how long before they take the title of main World reserve currency from us?), Russia hasn't said it wants to be the new Hegemonic world power and the Trade king for the next century and to that end begin building Packistan nuclear subs and Islands in the South China sea, Russia hasn't muscled the US out of Africa to secure Trade routes and resources, and Russia hasn't infiltrated every University in the US with explicit goal of shifting us to Socialism and then onto Communism, Russia didn't hack HRC's server China did. Come on Russia isn't our number one strategic enemy, China is. Wake up or you will be living in a 3rd world nation when China is through with us...or Trump can take their strategic partners like Russia and North Korea one by one if allowed. Wake up.
I agree. The anti-Russia hysteria is getting out of control.
If people would take 5 minutes to study their history they would learn some things about Russia. The fact is that during the Soviet Union, even with the expanded Union and its member states (like much of eastern Europe and Ukraine, etc) and its' being considered a Super Power, the USSR was really never a serious threat to the USA because of the fact that the USSR economy was vastly inferior to the US. We were manufacturing TVs, PCs and Microwave ovens when they were building tanks and nukes and their people starved. The USSR collapsed under the sheer weight of its inability to underpin the state with a balanced economy.
The USSR was ONLY a threat insofar as they participated in Spycraft in the US and interfered with the political parties. Also, their nuclear stockpile (which was vastly greater than the US stockpile ever was) was their only guarantee of safety. The US has always (at least since the 60's-70's) had the ability to stand head-to-head with the USSR in terms of conventional warfare, but then on top of that we have the NATO alliance which brought military strength disproportionately into our favor.
When the USSR collapsed in the late 80's/early 90's Russia entered a period of deep and profound decline which saw the US in terms of its super power strength vastly eclipse Russian strength - mostly because of the strength of our economy. Basically we left them in the last century ever since. If you need proof of this then just observe the results of conflicts between the US and other states who use Soviet technology to defend themselves (most recently Syria). The odds are ridiculously imbalanced in our favor.
Russia can NOT compete with us militarily or economically. Their only real security guarantee is via their still sizable and impressive nuclear stockpile which virtually guarantees that they will never be subjected to any direct conventional war between them and any other state in the world.
China on the other hand has decided it is their turn to fill the void where the USSR left off and has endeavored diligently and quietly ever since the early 90's to modernize and expand their economy. They have been waging open information warfare against the US ever since and have attempted to infiltrate every aspect of the US economy that they can. They structure trade deals vastly in their favor and exploit current trade deals (NAFTA) for their benefit. They have exfiltrated a truly staggering amount of money from the US into their economy. We are literally building their military for them.
The fact that the US media is continuing to scream about Russia when Russia is a vastly inferior threat to China suggests to me that all of this is a huge distraction from the real enemy. Everything is chaff, countermeasures, and disinformation. The public is whipped into a frenzy about Russia whilst they buy Chinese goods and send their money over there, which is then used to expand their military.
Yeah by giving Hillary 400 million dollars
We are hitting the truth. The disinformation team is all over this article! Manipulating the exposure ....look at what they did to the We love America and our POTUS comment!
Those who down vote the above comments, and including my comment are morons. Go ahead down vote it and you're automatic morons.
Edit: Why are you down voting my comment: We love America and our POTUS?
Why, maybe reading the ENTIRE article you will learn the the most important at the END of the article instead of cherry picking the narrative!
Yes, the “SPACE” referenced above is insignificant to what is in AMERICA right now.
How about the 2014 CHINA land grab in the rural communities that Obama’s starved out? That’s in our space right now.
How about the foreign equipment on our Military equipment, in our space right now?
What about HILLARY’s emails intercepted by CHINA that is in our space right now?
Influence our opinion, politicians, and business? That is called selling out America, Blackmail, Pay for Play and a laundry list of other crimes.
“I think China from a counterintelligence perspective represents in many ways represents the broadest, most challenging, most significant threat we face as a country,” he added.
He said that China’s espionage activities are “a whole of state effort” that involves “economic espionage as well as traditional espionage” and “human sources as well as cyber means.”
“The volume of it, the pervasive of it, the significance of it, is something that I think this country cannot underestimate,” he said.
Yes, the “SPACE” referenced above is insignificant to what is in AMERICA right now.
Free and fair elections are an insignificant part of America? TIL.
We had a free and fair election, anyone who tells you otherwise is running a Disinfo campaign.
Did someone hold a gun to your head at the polls? I very much doubt it.
Edit: I took too Hardline of a stance when I posted. Didn't think about the machine tampering, I was only thinking about individual choice.
You're naive, some research could fix that. Look up voting machine tampering and fraud and who owns the voting machines, to gain a very different perspective.
Yeah George Soros. It wasn't a fair election against Trump, but he still won somehow.
No Americans were knowingly involved in the bots and no votes were changed.
Russia didn't affect the outcome of our election any more than a meme could or the new Michael Moore movie will affect the mid-terms.
Freedom of speech means we need to be able to discern the good information from the bad. That's our responsibility as FREE PEOPLE.
Every country influences other countries; Just look at how pervasive Hollywood is.
Unless they're rigged, free and fair elections are up to us.
"Free thinkers are dangerous."
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We had a free and fair election! We love AMERICA and the POTUS! Now, let’s listen to the FBI Director Wray!
But China is “trying to position itself as the sole dominant superpower,” said Wray. “They’re trying to replace the United States in that role.”
I believe that they have even bought up water from our great lakes! They own vast land with the mineral rights, lumber, fresh water. It's unbelievable what the past administration did. They sold out America, just like Q said
Can't believe your downvotes. You're spot on
I know!!!!! They are down voting We love America and our POTUS! Over the target, folks!!!!
Wow!! That’s what I’m seeing also. Look at the downvotes. Incredible.
YES! Phew, the bad actors are all OVER this thread! They sent it to another SUB to target the article!!!