Icarus

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Icarus

More politics from a music blogger…

This is NOT what we signed up for.

But I’m not going to defend President Trump. He wasn’t my first choice. And I’m no fan of Vladimir Putin. He is no friend of the United States.

Just don’t pretend that the Russians are the only country spying on others, trying to influence politics and elections, and trying subvert democratic elections.

Just a few years ago, China was the Evil Empire, working to hack our computers, defense and business systems.

“The Obama administration has determined that it must retaliate against China for the theft of the personal information of more than 20 million Americans from the databases of the Office of Personnel Management.”

U.S. Decides to Retaliate Against China’s Hacking

Two years ago the Obama administration tried to interfere with the Israeli elections.

“The Obama administration spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in an effort to prevent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from winning re-election last year.”

Obama Administration Gave $350K to Prevent Netanyahu’s 2015 Re-Election

And the U.S. and Israel not only hacked into Iranian computer systems, we introduced a virus to destroy them.

“A damaging cyberattack against Iran’s nuclear program was the work of U.S. and Israeli experts and proceeded under the secret orders of President Obama”

Stuxnet was work of U.S. and Israeli experts, officials say

Now the Russians are the Evil Empire for posting comments on Facebook and social media against Hillary Clinton. Nothing the Russians have done comes close to the Chinese hacking from a few years ago or the United States interference in Israeli elections or the destruction of 1,000’s of Iranian centrifuges using the Stuxnet virus we introduced into their network.

If you’re going to pretend to be a political blogger, get educated, learn the history, and look at the facts.