Why Shouldn’t Foreign Regimes Try to Influence U.S. Elections?
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Just like clockwork, U.S. officials are extremely concerned over foreign regimes that are supposedly trying to influence the 2024 U.S. presidential election. “Stay out of our political system,” U.S. officials exclaim, even while they embroil themselves in the political systems of practically ever country in the world.
But my question is a simple one: Why shouldn’t foreign regimes try to influence U.S. presidential elections? After all, some of them arguably have a bigger stake in the outcome of the presidential race than individual Americans.
Consider Russia, for example. That country has lost tens of thousands of Russian soldiers in its war with Ukraine. But it was the U.S. government, operating through its old Cold War dinosaur NATO, that successfully provoked Russia into invading Ukraine. If Ukraine were to abandon its U.S.-supported dream of joining NATO, Russia would no longer have reason to continue waging its war against Ukraine.
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So, given that Russia has lost so many soldiers in that war, all of whom undoubtedly left grieving family members, relatives, and friends back home, why wouldn’t Russian officials want to see Donald Trump elected president, given that Trump would probably be more likely to forswear any intention of making Ukraine a NATO member?
On the other hand, Kamala Harris is likely to follow the direction that her boss, President Biden, has pursued. Like Biden, she would continue deferring to the U.S. national-security establishment by insisting that Ukraine become a member of NATO.
Given that the U.S. government has caused so much death and suffering among Russians, the Russian regime obviously has a huge stake in the
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