The Dark Shadow Shrine

embrace the darkness; that you may see the light nestled within it......

Monday, January 16, 2017

An uncompromising tool: The power of Russia's 'kompromat'

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-think about limitations of democracy
Interfering in foreign elections is something in which both Russians and Americans are experts.  The US did it in Latin America from the 19th century, and it is by now largely forgotten that the Cold War started in the 1940s precisely because then Soviet leader Josef Stalin falsified elections in Eastern Europe to produce communist regimes through the simple expedient of controlling the procedures. As he famously said: "It doesn't matter how people vote; it matters who counts."

-how cyberwarfare is panning out....battles no longer at battlefield but in cyberspace...

Qn:  â€˜Countries experiencing conflict should be left to sort out their own problems.’
How far do you agree? (Cam. 2016)