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How Vladimir Putin Won the U.S. Election
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How Vladimir Putin Won the U.S. Election
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
gave the Russian president precisely what he needed.
By Paul D. Shinkman
November 9, 2016, at 2:39 a.m.
U.S. News
http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/
2016-11-09/how-vladimir-putin-won-the-us-election
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/qarn5hf
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No matter the results on Tuesday, one outcome was always secured: Russian
President Vladimir Putin has used the U.S. election to bolster his
standing at home and increase his relevance overseas.
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Whether through a well-timed public comment, a military deployment that
exposed weaknesses in America's own war plans, or reportedly actual
meddling in the U.S. electoral process, Putin has ensured that he got what
he wanted out of this year's presidential race. In Donald Trump's victory,
Putin has an American counterpart who has publicly stated he will adopt a
more amenable policy toward Russia, getting out of its way in Syria and
perhaps even overseeing lifting international sanctions. If Hillary
Clinton had won, Putin still would have emerged as the perfect foil for
any American president who sees Russia as an adversary, further hardening
a view among the Russian people that NATO is once again attempting to
surround its former Cold War foe and that they need a strong leader to
protect them.
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Putin's name came up frequently during the campaign, including amid
reporting on Trump's business ambitions in Russia and his former campaign
manager's ties to powerful figures in Moscow and Ukraine. The Republican
nominee held up the Russian president for his strength of leadership,
favorably comparing him with President Barack Obama in that regard. For
Hillary Clinton, he loomed as the bogeyman at the center of a conspiracy
to undermine her chances of moving from chief diplomat to commander in
chief.
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Throughout the campaign, Putin found a way to benefit from these
perceptions and turn them into opportunities to reinforce his authority.
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"It's the small opportunism that he knows how to target in a tactical,
brilliant way," says Nina Khrushcheva, a specialist on Russian propaganda
and professor at New York's New School University.
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Very likely, the winner of the election was comparatively of little
consequence to Putin, analysts suggest. More importantly, the Russian
leader saw an opportunity to exploit what he sees as hypocrisy and
unfairness in the American electoral process to counter Western criticism
that he has manipulated votes in Russia to maintain his hold on power.
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"An adversarial relationship suits Putin just fine," says Khrushcheva, the
granddaughter of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. "He needs to stay in
power, and what better form to stay in power than America breathing down
your neck and wants to take you down? It's a really good argument which,
of course, America fed into."
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Many experts doubt Putin personally ordered the hacking of the Democratic
National Committee, releasing thousands of emails from party leaders and
granting fodder to those who believe Democrats orchestrated Bernie
Sanders' defeat in the primary process. Director of National Intelligence
James Clapper consistently refrained from ever flat-out accusing the
Russian government itself, indicating the hackers had unspecific ties to
Moscow even though the leaks were "consistent with methods and motivations
of Russian directed efforts."
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Regardless of who was behind it, the ploy served Putin's purposes. Clinton
and her backers, embarrassed by a steady drip of unflattering revelations,
focused their response on blaming Moscow.
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"This image of him plotting and scheming and keen to influence the outcome
is imaginary, a product of the Washington-campaign echo chamber," says
Robert English, a specialist on Russian nationalism at the University of
Southern California. "Putin is right about one thing: The Clinton and
Obama people are overreacting to the hack and painting it as a nefarious
Russian plot to subvert our democracy precisely because it diverts
attention from the dirty linen that the hack reveals and turns it instead
to Trump's strange bromance with Putin.
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"Putin can only be laughing at how much apparent influence he has."
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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