Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
Yet, when it comes to interfering in the affairs of other nations, how sinless, how blameless, are we Americans?
When it was learned in 2016 that Russia may have hacked the emails of John Podesta and the DNC, and passed the fruits on to WikiLeaks to aid candidate Donald Trump, mighty was the outrage of the American establishment.
If Russia’s security services filched those emails, and a troll farm in Saint Petersburg sent tweets and texts to stir up rancor in our politics, it was said, this was an attack on American democracy and its most sacred of rituals — the elections by which we chose our leaders.
Some called it an “act of war.” Others compared it to Pearl Harbor.
Almost all agreed it was intolerable interference in the internal affairs of the United States which called forth both condemnation and retribution.
Yet, when it comes to interfering in the affairs of other nations, how sinless, how blameless, are we Americans?
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