This whole episode can be summed up to 'criminal voting' plus a double helping of hypocrisy.
The US has done more election meddling that any other country post WW2, and the methods are largely far worse than whatever the Russians are accused of doing.
Russia isn't innocent in this, but they are currently flexing diplomatic muscles in a fairer way, deception rather than coercion.
As for criminal voting, its just a term I use here for how multitudes of Americans voting Trump into office must somehow be someones elses fault, and that fault is actionable because people are angry or embarassed at the outcome. Democracy is, the vote was valid, people voted for Trump, there are myriad reasons why, but the fact is the American people did that, not the Russians, it is their result, and should own it.
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