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FWIW Snowden speculates "Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility. Here's why that is significant" - https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/765514891813945344

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That 13-point tweet series paints a surprisingly plausible picture. I'm looking forward to getting the full story in about 20 years time.

We'll be very lucky if in 20 years, the world is still so free and functional as it is now... and I'm not trying to talk up the state of the world today.

I try to remain optimistic, because allows me to continue being largely complacent with and complicit in the slow decline of free and civil society.

Slightly tongue in cheek, but only slightly.

It's weird, though. Sure, it could be some kind of tit-for-tat thing, but I wonder more about 3rd party 'allies' in the middle east who have more to gain by pitting the US against Russia.

Then again, I'm sure that there are enough people and intelligence services in play to make everything confusing.

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