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Russia involvement in the presidential elections.
The presidential elections of 2016 in the United States have had a lot of theories surrounding the creditability of the decisions of that elections. The Russians have also been speculated to have involvement in the manipulation of the general public into leaning to a specific side, which happened to favor their sitting President Donald Trump. Despite the various defenses by Trump’s government about not being involved with the Russians, it has gone without a doubt that evidence and different proof that prove otherwise. It is such decisions that limit the government into having authenticity over other governments. Proof of how they used the internet into convincing people, passing of hate messages and increasing administrative accounts are all leaning against the government.
Anyone who happens to participate in elections is not allowed to participate in any way in swaying the decision toward them. It is an obstruction of justice and punishable by law. However the Russians president, progressed to run a campaign against Hillary Clinton proved that Trump was in some way involved, using foreign supporter although it was under the Republican Party defense. The fact that this as non-citizen campaigning for someone showed that he had engaged outside parties who were not allowed by the law to commit such an act in the American grounds (Jamieson, pg. 20). It is evident because the citizens can only manage a countries secrets unless a citizen decides to share such with a foreigner.
According to Zasoursky, the online era that we have been participating in for a while has opened up the world to vices and injustice chances on a whole new level. The Russians are believed to have hacked the election servers and supplied the country with published materials through a website that was thought to be secured and only vouched for transparency in the government. It also created various social media accounts that were run by them, where they backlashed very many Clinton’s acts and even came up with lies that they attached to her. All these were aimed to kill her chances of winning which happened to succeed in the end. Such uploads corrupt the minds of the readers already giving them a direction to the decisions that they are supposed to make concerning the elections that were to happen.
The Russians influence in the presidential elections is believed to have been a show of power by Putin’s government. As president of Russia, his main aim is said to try and reduce the power that the western countries have over the world, proving that they are also flawed and weak in some way (Kanet, pg. 180). Political infringement in many countries elections has been trailed back to Putin’s government, though no substantive proof has been available against Russia. The fear of Russia not regaining its international influence has pushed Putin into trying all means to try and punish the states for supporting the opposition that was against Russia. It is such opposition that made the belief of people in Russia diminish into a war-prone country.
Various allegations towards the accountability of the Russians to the winning of Trump’s election in 2016, have been made all over the world. Despite the numerous denials from Trump, the accounts that were linked to Putin’s government, the release of information and the order for the attempted access by the military to the electronic voting system of the US at that time, does not redirect the accusations either. The power that both parties hold deny the public the opportunity to access information that is credible enough to tie both parties to the involvement of the elections at that time.
Work cited.
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Zasoursky, Ivan. Media and power in post-Soviet Russia. Routledge, 2016.
Kanet, Roger E. “Russia and global governance: The challenge to the existing liberal order.” International Politics 55.2 (2018): 177-188.