Mueller’s indictment of Russians for meddling in the 2016 election is only of importance insofar as it forwards the attempt to dislodge Trump from office and/or prevent him from executing his agenda. There has been no discernible influence that has been proven to affect the outcome of the 2016 election. The difficulties in ever proving such an influence from a given source are enormous, because elections are very noisy processes with so many influences. Noise means “irrelevant or meaningless data or output occurring along with desired information”. The Mueller indictments are abnormal. Usually, meddling is ignored. In this case politics … Continue reading U.S. Meddled 80 Times in Foreign Elections: 1946-2000