On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the US and Russia should sign an agreement promising not to meddle in each other’s elections.
Putin proposed, “exchanging guarantees of non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, including electoral processes, including using information and communication technologies and high-tech methods.”
The Russian president proposed an agreement that would seek to prevent major cyberspace incidents. Putin compared the idea to a treaty signed in 1972 between the Soviet Union and the US that was signed to prevent incidents at sea and in the air between the two countries’ militaries.
Putin asked for a reset in US-Russia relations in the cyber arena. “We would like to once again address the US with a suggestion to agree on a comprehensive program of practical measures to reboot our relations in the field of security in the use of information and communication technologies,” he said.
An unnamed senior White House administration official responded to the proposal in a statement to Buzzfeed. “A good starting point for discussion would be Russia discontinuing its ongoing meddling with the US election,” the official said.
While the allegation that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in 2016 has fallen apart, there is still a bipartisan consensus that Moscow interfered in 2016, and continues to today. However, key tenents to the Russiagate narrative have also collapsed.
It was recently revealed by declassified House testimony from 2017 that the private cyber-security firm CrowdStrike had no proof that Russia hacked the DNC and liberated the emails that were published by WikiLeaks. The DNC hack and leak is one of the primary examples of Russian interference in 2016.
US intelligence agencies continue to claim Russia, along with China and Iran, is meddling in the upcoming election. Everything from state media coverage and activities of unknown hackers is deemed election interference.
This was a bad move on the part of Rasputin since he made a confession that the Russian government does indeed meddle in our political affairs. On a realistic note, neither side will stop meddling. So the agreement is just theatrics.
He didn’t admit anything.
Sometimes you need to read between the lines…
But not this time. Russia interference is a deep state CIA hoax.
They’d be foolish not to. It’s like saying they don’t spy on us. They have to counter what we do to them.
I don’t think Putin has to counter anything we do to Russia. He knows that we are in the process of self destruction and suicide. All he has to do is stand back and watch.
The US government routinely interferes in the internal affairs of dozens of countries. The populace is told that this is A OK because of the exceptional nature of the US. The populace is so dumbed down that many actually believe the rulers on this subject.
The claim of Russian interference in US elections boiled down to a (possible) few hundred thousand dollars spent on Facebook. The national security agencies spent a hundreds of millions of taxpayers dollars to “prove” this. Typical of DC.
The US meddled in nearly all elections and political affairs of other nations including Australia
Meddled as in past tense????
“Always meddles” implying past, present, and future tense.
So is this just for meddling in each other’s elections and the rest of the world is fair game?
It always has been before….right???
Ha ha ha … let no one claim that Putin doesn’t have a sense of humor.
But seriously, he knows that silly crap like this is all western media are focused on, other than the ongoing plague, so caters to it.
Banks robbing you blind, military spending beyond belief, a health system and public infrastructure on the edge? No problem. But Russia occasionally pointing some of this out? Unbearable.
The US must undertake not to interfere in any foreign election or attempt impose Guaidos on any country.
Russia’s meddling doesn’t hold a candle to the mainstream media, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Youtube, and all the rest.