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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3630467" data-attributes="member: 56035">chris hedges truth dig:Did Russia attempt to influence the election? Undoubtedly. This is what governments do. The <a href="https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/americas-long-history-of-meddling-in-other-countries-elections" target="_blank">United States interfered in 81 elections</a> from 1945 to 2000, according to professor Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University. His statistics do not include the numerous coups we orchestrated in countries such as Greece, Iran, Guatemala and Chile or the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. We indirectly bankrolled the re-election campaign of Russia’s buffoonish Boris Yeltsin to the tune of $2.5 billion.But did Russia, as the Democratic Party establishment claims, swing the election to Trump? No. Trump is not Vladimir Putin’s puppet. He is part of the wave of right-wing populists, from Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson in Britain to Viktor Orbán in Hungary, who have harnessed the rage and frustration born of an economic and political system dominated by global capitalism and under which the rights and aspirations of working men and women do not matter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3630467, member: 56035"] chris hedges truth dig: Did Russia attempt to influence the election? Undoubtedly. This is what governments do. The [B][URL='https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/americas-long-history-of-meddling-in-other-countries-elections']United States interfered in 81 elections[/URL] from 1945 to 2000, according to professor Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University. His statistics do not include the numerous coups we orchestrated in countries such as Greece, Iran, Guatemala and Chile or the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba[/B]. We indirectly bankrolled the re-election campaign of Russia’s buffoonish Boris Yeltsin to the tune of $2.5 billion. But did Russia, as the Democratic Party establishment claims, swing the election to Trump? No. Trump is not Vladimir Putin’s puppet. He is part of the wave of right-wing populists, from Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson in Britain to Viktor Orbán in Hungary, who have harnessed the rage and frustration born of an economic and political system dominated by global capitalism and under which the rights and aspirations of working men and women do not matter. [/QUOTE]

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