Is this the same Trump who said he trusts Mr. Putin's word over his own intelligence agencies? Let's not kid ourselves that he had nothing but making himself look good in mind when he said those "warnings".
And yet by 2016 when he took office it was known we were fucking with their internal politics too[1], using "totally not the CIA" organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy[2] and USAID[3].
This is not a new playbook, we have to realize every foreign government knows exactly what we're doing right? We can only pay people to look the other way for so long until a line is crossed. Whelp, apparently we discovered the line.
[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golos_(election_monitor)
[2] https://mronline.org/2022/03/08/national-endowment-for-democ...
[3] https://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/4/is_usaid_the_new_cia_a...
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/18/world/reagan-and-pope-rep...
>President Ronald Reagan signed a secret order in May 1982 that authorized an array of economic, diplomatic and covert measures to _destabilize the Government of Poland_ and begin to break the Soviet Union's dominance of Eastern Europe, Time magazine reported this week.
>The secret order, National Security Decision Directive 32, set in motion aid to the Solidarity movement, more vigorous promotion of human rights, economic pressure and diplomatic isolation of the Communist Government, the article said.
>The report in Time adds many new details, particularly the role of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Roman Catholic Church in opening networks across which telephones, fax machines, printing presses, photocopiers, computers and intelligence information moved to Solidarity.
Thanks to this I can buy bread, washing machine or a car without waiting in a queue, signing up on a list or waiting for a government grand. Meanwhile in a shithole russia: https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-tv-segment-family-who... https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/07/18/7358790/
So when Trump said he believed Putin in that instance, he was correct.
And by "fucking with their internal politics" you mean funded a non-profit, that was trying to expose rampant election fraud?
You are not going to persuade them.
Here is the delayed but inevitable result: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32326857