RE: Watergate II: Lock them up.
July 12, 2017 at 2:00 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2017 at 2:02 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(July 12, 2017 at 1:51 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(July 12, 2017 at 9:22 am)Alex K Wrote: more dangerous than the Soviet Union? Who posed a concrete threat of nuclear war? Are you serious?
Not more dangerous as a military opponent, but more dangerous as an opponent with the ability
and the motivation to fundamentally subvert and debilitate our system of governance.
(July 12, 2017 at 11:37 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: And I'd question the assertion that the USSR was more capable of electoral mischief, given the absence of the internet which so magnified the Russian disinformation/espionage efforts.
The soviet human intelligence network in the US was undoubtedly much more robust than those of Russia now.
Perhaps, but we're talking about disseminating disinformation to a nation of tens of millions. The internet, with its partisan gathering sites and bots trawling them, no doubt makes their efforts much more efficient than using human resources on the scale the USSR would've had to use.
