According to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, President Obama is actively considering retaliatory moves against Russia in response to putative hacking attacks that the Obama Administration has blamed on the Russian government.
Earnest insisted that the White House would not announce the revenge attacks themselves in advance, and that the US would ensure that whatever revenge attacks it does conduct on Russia would be “proportional” to whatever they accuse Russia of doing.
The allegations have centered on the idea that Russia is hacking the Democratic Party to try to get Donald Trump elected, and are trying to “hack the election” in some other vague terms. Evidence that Russia was behind the hacks is sorely lacking, though repeated allegations have built a consensus around this claim.
It is unclear what form the revenge moves will take, but administration officials have previously suggested military action would be appropriate in certain cases of cyber attacks, and the Treasury Department is also talking imposing new sanctions. The US makes anti-Russia moves pretty regularly right now anyhow, so it may be hard to tell the difference, barring some huge, war-starting incident.
The US most definitely interfered in the last Russian Presidential Elections. They had their usual set of cold-war, CIA-National-Endowment-for-Democracy set of NGOs, and George Soros spent a lot of money their too, trying to ‘interfere’ in that Russian election. They tried what looked like yet another ‘color revolution’, but the Russian people didn’t buy it and they ended up with a small minority out protesting ‘election fraud’ trying to overturn the huge defeat they suffered at the polls.
So, Obama is now threatening Russia for doing for interfering in elections just like he interfered in elections in the past.
Obama has overthrown three democracies with coups, and tried several others. Talk about the Pot Calling the Kettle Black.
Hollywood levels of retardation have left the movie studios and infected real-world people! I suggest their brains be forcefully donated to Science.
The White House Idiot just can’t help himself.
Trump for POTUS;Our best revenge.
Only if we’re trying to take revenge on ourselves.
Hillary would be more revenge on ourselves.
If the US administration knew about the DNC conspiring against Bernie Sanders, would they have told the American people? My guess is “no”.
So *if* the Russians are responsible for the hacking, it appears that the Russian government is more honest with the American populace than the US government.
I HAte ALL americans.
Russia: the made-up enemy. So: They threaten actual killing in response to made-up crap? Fascinating approach…
Do we get to retaliate for the government hacking our emails? There is far more evidence regarding that.
Obama is Hilary’s puppet. Was from the day he agreed on the deal before Denver convention 2008. So, this is nothing new. But the ideologues are forgetting that they are playing games with the peace and tranquility of other countries and their people. Not just an election nonsense. But Hillary cannot wait to get her hands of the nukes. She is trying to get us to agree to the “little ones”, just a itsy bitsy nuke. She is aggressive to the core, and her anger with Trump — who had her on ropes most of the evening — was given a vent when she said she would be arming Kurds in Syria. A declaration of war on Turkey, a NATO ally! Naturally, she thinks she can say or do anything. And this is why we cannot close out any of the wars we start. Because the bureaucrats in power, and some of the top echelon in military have been so used to tunnel vision — that they have zero interest in what others think. Zero.
Thus, they go around the world barking orders, like a pathetic Samantha Power in UN. They expect heads nodding. And after that, when none of our plans work out, we start again. Shouting, head nodding. Not working.
If Hillary would just for a split second think through before declaring that she would arm Kurds — she would understand that all that would be achieved Is more carnage. And — did she really think that Turkey would take it lightly? Turkey just liberated its border from a string of ISIS settlements, whose only purpose was to smuggle arms from Kurds in Turkey, right across the border. And pray, who is arming Turkish PKK? She is — stupidly — threatening Turkey, all the more reason for Turkey to give us a finger salute. As of now, this is not politics, but war and anger. All she is doing is making sure that now Russia, Turkey, Iran and Damascus are on the same wavelength. Behind Damascus are also Palestinian militia — taking now revenge on the terrorists that a few years ago attacked their refugee camp and kept them hostage. And what is Hillary doing? We are big and bad, — and when something bad happens — she will go to the American people to give her money for military action, give her their children to be sent into a carnage against people who never did us any harm.
I will go crazy if I see more “support our troops” when Hillary starts alienating all of our allies, rubbing their noses into insults, and taunt our adversaries. She is a war making machine, and this is why Republican establishment — making money out of the same war machine — wanted HER to be the president.
And then came Donald. He is insisting on his idea of foreign policy worthy of a superpower, not to be lead by a vicious and vindictive bureaucrat. And this is why his own party is disowning him.
As flawed a candidate that he is, he is a human being whom I will any time rather see in the White House, then a ziocon run Red Queen.
“rumors of wars”
What proportional to the 500,000 dead Iraqi kids inflicted by the Bill/Hill Co-Presidency, that Mad Maddie Albright said was “worth it”.