about the recent election:

The permitting of massive black money in our elections was taken advantage of by the Russian Federation, which, having hopelessly corrupted its own presidential elections, managed to further corrupt the American ones, as well.

So far the social media companies have come up with about $100K of social media advertising total spend by Russian associated companies with an unclear purpose. The best mind analysts it's mainly some kind of clickbait advertising, scam. Regardless, it's just rain drops in the ocean of political advertising in the US and equally irrelevant to the outcome.

I think like most of the world, Russia was horrified at the prospect of Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump becoming president of the USA. A pity Clinton and her cronies railroaded Bernie Sanders out ofthe election. Sanders would not have taken the USA far in any direction (an eternal compromiser, something like President Obama) and that would have been a good thing.

It fascinates me Professor Cole how you counter the mainstream narrative so clearly to start:

the International Criminal Court...is impeded from moving against people like Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is much more guilty of war crimes, including instituting Apartheid in the West Bank, than he is of petty corruption. It is impeded from moving against Muhammad Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, whose air force has targeted civilian targets like schools and hospitals in Yemen some 33% of the time.

Formidable independence of thought. But in the next section, you seem to be transcribing state department or Pentagon press releases:

Among the biggest