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Comment by gdy | Hacker News Reader

"their persistent campaign of psychological warfare against the entire country"

Lol

The Russians are coming!

Nobody is expecting the Russians to invade. I think the concern is that they could easily cause widespread unrest here by pitting special interest groups against each other.

See the recent Worldwide Threat Assessment Report [0] page 7, titled "ONLINE INFLUENCE OPERATIONS AND ELECTION INTERFERENCE."

  Our adversaries and strategic competitors probably already
  are looking to the 2020 US elections as an opportunity to 
  advance their interests. More broadly, US adversaries and 
  strategic competitors almost certainly will use online 
  influence operations to try to weaken democratic 
  institutions, undermine US alliances and partnerships, and 
  shape policy outcomes in the United States and elsewhere.

[0] https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/2019-ATA-SFR---SSCI...

They have already done it. Just look at the cable news coverage for the past two years. Non-stop Trump is a traitor news.

Whatever trump is, he is not a physical military invasion force from Russia.

And then they can "save" Alaska.

And California!

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