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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

US: "You should watch your border, Russia is about to invade"

Ukraine: "Pfft, yeah, riight..."

Later...

US: "You should be careful, ISIS is about to let loose in Moscow"

Russia: "Pfft, yeah, riight..."

[–] elvith@feddit.de 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everyone besides Russia: "You should watch out, Russia is about to meddle with your elections."

US: "Pfft, yeah, riight..."

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh they knew

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/21/587614043/fact-check-why-didnt-obama-stop-russia-s-election-interference-in-2016

But Republicans didn't want to stop it, and Obama was worried if he did anything without Republican support it would look like he was tilting the scales in favor of Clinton. Which makes zero sense to me but hey that's just what Obama thought.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US went hard against Russian hackers just before the 2020 elections. They learned the lesson from 2016.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hackers aren't the only way to meddle in an election, just the easiest to categorize and deal with.

[–] FrostyTrichs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Hackers aren't the only way to meddle in an election, just the easiest to categorize and deal with.

Convenient strawmen anyway.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

This is exactly what I was wondering. I was hoping I would be wrong, but damn...

A White House official shared more information Friday evening in a statement reported by multiple outlets.

"Earlier this month, the US government had information about a planned terrorist attack in Moscow — potentially targeting large gatherings, to include concerts — which prompted the State Department to issue a public advisory to Americans in Russia," said Adrienne Watson, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council.

"The US government also shared this information with Russian authorities in accordance with its longstanding 'duty to warn' policy," Watson said, referring to the US policy in the intelligence community to notify potential victims, regardless of whether or not they are US citizens, of certain credible impending threats

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Putin addressed the warnings a couple weeks later, criticizing the warning three days ago as "provocative."

Per TASS, the Russian president said on March 19 the aim of "the recent provocative statements of a number of official Western structures about the possibility of terrorist attacks in Russia" was harming Russian society.

"All this resembles outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize our society," Putin said, according to state media reporting on his remarks.

Future humanity, if you even exist, please have mercy on us when you look back at this age. 😮‍💨

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Seems like there is a lot of dismissal going on. W did it on 9/11. Bibi did it on 10/07. It is a common thread.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Something about Putin and 72 hour windows in time.

What a laughing stock.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

To bad he want at the concert