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Sharu on 05 January 2017
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Soundwave said:
UnderstatedCornHole said:

There you go again, talking as if it's true before the fact has been proven.

Show some critique on your own judgements. Anything on the right that is negative you accept without question. Anything on the left attacking the right you accept without question. Anything from the right attacking the left you deny and anything from the right that could be construed as positive you downplay.

Do you know none of the major powers have been directly interfering with elections prior to now against other major powers?

The Russian economy has been crippled by sanctions over the last two years by the US and fallen into recession. There's nothing terribly surprising here either, Russia does this kind of thing all the time to neighboring countries (installing pro-Kremlin candidates and then pushing hard to make sure they get elected). 

There's nothing here that I see that is really that unbelievable at all, it's pretty much all textbook, the only exceptional thing about it is that it one superpower against another, but again those sanctions are costing Russia billions of dollars a year. Billions of lost dollars have an interesting way of motivating people.  

Thats pretty much wrong. Russian economy has GROWN in fact. If you calculate it in the natural goods produced. But if you calculate it in USD - its crippled. Right. Because USD in Russia was 30 roubles before sanctions and its 60 now. 
But for average Joe its not so big difference. If I was buyng pork meat for 250 roubles (8 USD) 3 years ago. Now I'm buying it for 280. Which is 4.6 USD. But I still getting the same product.
Diesel price was around 33.2 in March of 2014. Now its around 37. So in 2 years in roubles its price grown 11%. But if you calculate it in USD its price fallen from 1 USD per 1 liter to 0.61 USD per liter. 
A lot of industries in fact grown STRONGER during last 3 years. Esp agriculture. 
Only thing which is hard - is buying iphones. Which is OK for me.

Don't listen to Obama. Cause its even harder to admit that 'weak regional country with corrupted authorities and crippled economy' was able to succesfully put in place next USA president it wanted.