Russia not only wants Trump to win, they are helping him.

Russia wants Trump to win, for two simple reasons – Ukraine and NATO. Trump has said repeatedly that he will end the war in Ukraine in a single day. Of course, he won’t, but what he can do, is withdraw our military support. Expert suggest Russia will not take over Ukraine over immediately, but will fortify the occupied territory. A massive attack on Kyiv will be several years later.

NATO operates under a mutual defense agreement, that any attack on any member state, is an attack on all member states. In February, Trump suggested he would encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to any country that was “delinquent” because it had “failed to pay” its dues. This would make Putin very happy.

Russia is using cyberspace warfare to influence our election to help Trump’s campaign.

From Wikipedia:

“Officials from the ODNI [Office of Director of National Intelligence] and FBI have outlined Russia’s use of generative artificial intelligence to denigrate Harris with doctored and fake text, images, video, and audio content and outlined efforts to promote divisive content to spread anti-Americanism. Officials have assessed that Russia is attempting to fool unwitting Americans into spreading its messages and is imitating websites of established media and using human commentators to increase traffic towards those sites, which have content generated by artificial intelligence.”

The Department of Justice shut down 32 faked Russian websites, and Kremlin officials have either been sanctioned or indicted. Unlike Brussels’ reliance on new digital rules, Washington fell back on decades-old laws, including arcane trademark rules, to root out the attempted interference and hold individuals to account, immediately, for their role in the clandestine activity.

“The Justice Department’s message is clear,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland in announcing the indictments. “We have no tolerance for attempts by authoritarian regimes to exploit our democratic system of government.”

Links: Politico, Sept 25, 2024 The Real Way to Fight Russian Disinformation

Link: Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections

On September 17, Microsoft reported that Russian operatives had intensified attacks against Kamala Harris by creating videos highlighting “outlandish conspiracy theories” aimed at stoking racial and political divisions. Mentioned videos that had been viewed millions of times included a fake video of a Harris supporter attacking an attendee at a Trump rally and another staged video that falsely claimed Harris had paralyzed a young girl in a hit-and-run accident in 2011. The video was promoted through a fake website masquerading as a local San Francisco media outlet.

More efforts by Russia to help Trump win the election can be found in the Wikipedia link.

The extreme right wing of the Republican Party, seems to accept Putin’s interference, as long as it is against Democrats, and in particular Kamala Harris. It is not only unethical, it is illegal.

Stay tuned,

Dave