Maybe, but who cares? Our enmity with them goes back decades. I don’t care at all who is at fault. We both are. But in this case, they committed an act of war. I don’t believe we’ve done that to them in recent history, certainly during Putin’s time. Thankfully, we’re not actually going to go to war with them, but they…

I’m all for beefing up the security on our voting system, as well. Honestly, the easiest solution is just to put all voting machines on closed networks. They would be networked together in the building, but not have any connection to the internet. That way, the only way to hack them is to actually go into the building…

Again, though, it isn’t just the NSA and CIA or even just all of our other intelligence agencies. Private experts and other countries agree with their assessment. If you are looking at a case like the lead up to the Iraq war, that wasn’t the case. Our allies were openly skeptical and private experts had mixed…

I honestly didn’t mean that as a harsh insult. I just have no idea why you would reject it. Our intelligence agencies, our allies intelligence agencies, and private experts all agree that Russia meddled in our election. They’ve done it several times before and have done it since. It is bizarre to me that anyone is…

Nice. You’ve just given up on making points and are just insulting me. I’m done with this.

I would say the difference was, in the Soviet era, they weren’t trying to trade with others. They were an almost completely closed economy. Sanctions couldn’t do anything to them then because no one was trading with them anyway. That’s why they couldn’t meet the needs of their citizens.

Treating your people poorly is called “freedom.” We’ll make sure you have more healthcare plans to choose from, but not enough money to get any of them! It’s called freedom. I’ve been told on many occasions that any government handout chains the people on them. I mean, you’d hate to be able to buy food with food…

You gotta be known for something.

Based on the fact that I don’t see a reason they would have to lie about this one. Based on the fact that they haven’t ginned up a threat in recent history. (Iraq wasn’t the fault of the intelligence agencies. The Bush administration asked them to find evidence for their claims. The intelligence agencies had no motive…

Are you aware of the fact that Putin already went past the term limits? He created a new position so he could stay in power when his term was up, and then he went back to being president again after that. He hit his limit in ‘08, yet 9 years later he is still the leader of the country. He also extended the length of…

The difference is, we will deal with democracies or terrible dictatorships, but we prefer democracies. They will deal with either one as well, but they prefer the dictatorships.

I’m not saying it would fall apart. I’m not saying it would come to an end or stop spinning. I’m saying that right now we are on top, and the world order is stable and many democracies flourish in this environment. Russia and China are the only two countries that could take the top slot if we weren’t there. Both of…

Because this election was razor thin, and there is a decent chance that Russia actually swayed it. That is an existential threat. We can no longer have faith in our democracy.

Yeah, that part is bad, but also anything that has “with a single tweet!” is terrible. The whole headline is clickbait, and the article isn’t.

France came to no conclusion because they were looking at the digital fingerprints afterward. The US came to a conclusion based on seeing the crime happen in real time. Now, if I see a bank robbery happening, and see the guy without a mask on and can identify him, but the guy wore gloves and the crime scene guys can’t…

We have to somehow stop them from doing this again. What other option do you have that has a good chance of doing it? Talking to them about it hasn’t worked. Obama tried to warn them not to do it and they did it anyway. Trump tried to talk to them about it, and Putin just denied it. What’s your option?

What do you think a dictatorship is? They now have a leader for life. There is no free press to stand up to him, he kills members of his political opposition who threaten his power, and they now longer have fair elections. Putin is a dictator. Russia is a dictatorship.

What odds? Who else has a proven history of doing this? France said the attack was performed in a way that they couldn’t tell who did it. They did not come to a completely different conclusion based on the evidence. They came to no conclusion, because they had less evidence. Our experts saw this happening, which is…

It is so sad to me that that is true....

No, I’m saying we have to retaliate in some way. What’s the other option? You keep saying they exist, but you won’t say what. Or you could even tell me a way in which we could get them to stop without actually retaliating. I’d take that. But you aren’t saying anything.