You should be embarrassed and ashamed to post this Russian propaganda. Good grief, and you talk about "crazy conspiracy theories," yet you peddle this nuttiness.
You have miss-stated what I was saying. What I was saying was:
1. Russia would like to control our elections.
This effort has not succeeded.
2. In any case, whether their efforts to control succeed or fail, they would like us to believe that they control our elections.
All Russians can do is influence our elections, by putting out false information. As anyone else can do, either from within America, or outside America, including other countries. I don't see this as a big deal.
And, just FYI, if the Russians were going to help anyone in an election, it certainly would not be the Republicans, because the Republicans have been the ones calling for us to give Ukraine fighter jets and long-range missile systems. The Republicans have, entirely correctly, been critical of Biden's incremental, piecemeal approach to helping Ukraine, not to mention his feckless actions before the invasion.
Both the Republican and the Democratic leadership have been calling for us to send more aid to Ukraine, like fighter jets and long-range weapons, which I fully support. President Biden is more cautious than I would like to see. But as least he does support Ukraine.
But I, and most people, fear that if American support for Ukraine falters, it will come from the Republican side. Because Trump does not support Ukraine. And Trump influences the Republican base a lot. Which may cause the Republican leadership in Congress to falter. That has not happen yet and I hope it doesn't. It's time for Republicans to embrace their old values like we had under Reagan and stand up to Russian aggression. I hope they will continue to do so, despite Trump's efforts.
We can see this on our forum. It is the big Trump supporters, like Richard Smith, who want us to give up on Ukraine as a lost cause. In Congress, the few who call on us to greatly reduce our aid to Ukraine are the hard-line Trump supporters. But this is one 'Lost Cause' that I fully support, and which I do not believe is really a 'Lost Cause', at least not until Russia shows a lot more conventional power than they have been able to show so far.
Russia has always had the numbers on its side. But it has not always won all its wars. Not the Crimea War. Not the Russo-Japanese War. Not World War I. Nor the War in Afghanistan. Despite what Richard Smith would want us to believe, Russian victory is not inevitable.
Russian power does not come from its current production of weapons. It comes from the years of high production during the Soviet era, when it was still possible for them to produce a lot of weapons and a lot of ammunition. But they are burning through this surplus at a high rate and show no capability to replace this, at the current rate of production, for over one hundred years.
So, I am for the support we have given Ukraine, and we should do more. We should not accept Russia outgunning Ukraine by a large margin, like 5 to one or whatever it is, but increase our supply of ammunition so they can at least nearly match Russia's. Let's at least give them a fraction of the support we lavished on Afghanistan and continue to do give to Iraq. And not fear Russia response but instead give Ukraine longer range weapons, with superior accuracy, which is also important. Give them the weapons that can take out the bridge to Crimea (the actual bridge, and not just the 'Land Bridge') and sink Russian ships that try to supply Crimea, once it gets cut off, which I hope for this year.
