Hot Type: Democracy Hit Men for Hire
The US and the UK are both failing to learn the lessons of 2016 on both sides of the Atlantic, reports Heidi Siegmund Cuda
It benefited the pro-Russian factions of the US and UK right-wing political parties to not look too closely at the 2016 election results.
In the US, Donald Trump endlessly regurgitated “Russian hoax” propaganda, as if he were auditioning for a late-night slot on a Moscow network, in case things didn’t work out so good in the Oval Office.
In the UK, Boris Johnson’s Government refused to order an inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum vote. The conclusion to a postmortem report from Parliament’s intelligence and security committee said Johnson’s Government “had not seen or sought evidence of successful interference in UK democratic processes”.
Meanwhile, independent investigative reporters relentlessly exposed ties between the three nations, data ties, financial ties, personal ties.
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