Russia has become our constant companion through the daily reporting in the media.
As every should know, Russia has been bad because it meddled in the 2016 presidential election, trying to disrupt Hillary Clinton’s campaign to the point that she lost. Since then, Putin and company have been scrambling to deal with an embarrassment of riches in their success.
The investigation into–and reporting on–meddling has developed a fairly constant theme with several elements. Among these:
- Russia has long harbored and pursued a desire to disrupt and weaken the United States.
- Russia has long harbored and pursued a desire to disrupt and weaken NATO.
- Russia has shown a great sense of efficiency and cost-effectiveness in affecting the 2016 election through cyber campaigns designed to influence the outcome of the election
But there is another recent event that fits nicely into this theme and that is the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Though there was no one regularly reporting a Russian desire to disrupt and, I believe, weaken the United States, that clearly was the result. In the author’s opinion, the Patriot Act did more to attack the on the United States