There’s an inherent danger in making accusations, without providing evidence. In the political sense, it can lead to immediate conflict and even start wars.
Senior US Republican senator Lindsey Graham has said his campaign email account was hacked by Russians.
Early this morning, Graham told CNN that he believed “the Russians” hacked into the Democratic National Committee, and accused them of trying to “destabilise democracy all over the world”.
Russian officials have repeatedly denied the claims.
The irony here, is that the US government has been involved in influencing a number of elections throughout history. We’ve seen it in Guatemala, and most recently in Haiti in 2010/2015, and Honduras as recently as 2009.
During Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, the Honduran military forced out democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya. The United Nations condemned the act of a military style coup, and the Organization of American States suspended Honduras’ membership, calling for Zelaya to be reinstated.
“If the United States government declares a coup, you immediately have to shut off all aid, including humanitarian aid, the Agency for International Development aid, the support that we were providing at that time for a lot of very poor people,” Clinton had said in April of 2009.
It’s difficult to say the impact the US government has had on the people of Haiti, given the number of US sponsored coups and low voter turnout as recent as 2015 resulted in an 18 percent of registered voter turnout. Additionally, 23 percent of all votes were never counted, due to fraud and violence on Election Day.
But the meddling didn’t stop there. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon apologized earlier this week for the treatment of Haitian’s by the UN, after years of denial.
In regards to Russia, it’s an all too familiar scapegoat. An easy target.
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