The anti-Russian angle on the hacking/Wikileaks/Russian influence on the 2016 election is making a mountain out of a molehill, simply because Putin’s influence was wide open and public. He didn’t hide that he favored Trump. He made it plain that Clinton was a dangerous choice. Russia has a big interest in who becomes the U.S. president and so do many other states, because the U.S. is the big world superpower and the president is extremely powerful. It is only natural that countries that are affected by a large empire in their midst have a stake in who runs it, and … Continue reading Did the Kremlin Direct Leaks to Wikileaks?