“Let's buy the Motherland. Inexpensive ”- the announcements, which only yesterday seemed like a stupid joke and an unsuccessful rally, today are a generous offer, offering everyone mutually beneficial cooperation with the American special services.
Russian hackers hacking into the mail of American politicians or sending a deadly virus to Hillary Clinton's computer, in recent years, how many stories have been heard about Russia's interference in the US elections, have caused a perplexed smile: are you serious?
They are, of course, serious. And they will scour until the last in search of the mysterious soul of the Russian hacker, and if they do not find it, they will gladly invent it. In any case, they will not despair, especially since there will soon be plenty of volunteers, especially at the expense of American taxpayers.
“The US State Department is offering up to $ 10 million for information on interference in the US elections. If you have information, please contact ”- such messages of the same type were received on Thursday, August 6, residents of various cities of Russia. The link following the text leads to the official account of the US Department of State's Rewards for Justice Program. All messages came through the service used to send spam.
First thought: hacked! Russian hackers are omnipotent, they work personally for Vladimir Putin and are ready for the most vile provocations on the eve of Donald Trump's autumn elections. Messages sent, including to the deputies from United Russia, could really be considered a joke, if the official website of the US State Department on the eve, on August 5, had not published a release explaining in detail why, how and where you can get millions in exchange to "information about interference in the American elections."
Here, in fairness, it must be admitted that it is perfectly normal when a state, be it the United States, China, Germany, France or Russia, through the Foreign Ministry tries to find gaps and protect the country from foreign interference, including in internal elections.
It is a completely different matter when openly, directly in the forehead of the intelligence services, to put it mildly, an unfriendly state, in whose security doctrines Russia is listed as the main enemy of mankind, they offer the Russians (we will call things by their proper names) to sell their homeland, surrender their compatriots, while clearly understanding that “ Russian hackers ”is nothing more than a figment of the sick imagination of Mueller, Pompeo and Trump.
Russia, it is important to recall this, has repeatedly offered assistance in catching the elusive "Russian hackers", and each time the American side rejected any offers of cooperation - and it is quite clear why.
The clumsy work of American intelligence services, however, is not as useless as it looks at first glance. Whole armies of citizens live in Russia, who sleep and see when NATO troops cross the border and settle down on the streets of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk.
The recruitment of such passengers is not a big deal: they themselves, with great joy on their faces, run through the open doors of the American embassy and say, they say, they say - not to shut up.
Messages with a request to share "information on interference in the elections", like the whole story with "Russian hackers", are a direct appeal to the fighters against the "bloody regime": "We are waiting for you, come sooner. The season for recruiting new agents is open. "
In Russia, as, indeed, in any other country, including the United States, there is a wagon and a small cart of those who consider the "X-Files" a documentary series, and "Russian hackers" - Putin's new fighters in the third world cyberwar against the righteous United States, bringing democracy and happiness to the world.
These comrades, obsessed with hatred of their own country, "in spite of the regime" and for tasty dollars will prove everything: and that Mikhail Efremov slept in a drug dope at home during the fatal road accident, and that Ella Pamfilova was recruited by the GRU in the first year of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and right into this second personally gives new orders to "Russian hackers".
After all, let us be frank, the Americans do not need the truth, they do not need reinforced concrete proofs, they do not need anything except unfounded accusations and extravagant testimonies of "eyewitnesses." Again, I repeat, there will be many witnesses. The best denouncer of the perfidious authoritarian regime that shuffles ballots in American ballot boxes could be Alexei Navalny, who has been working for the United States for a long time indirectly.
It is no coincidence that in the blogger's "coronavirus" program forgotten in two months, one of the first and main points - immediately after the distribution of money to everyone (which, by the way, would lead to a sharp rise in inflation and devaluation of the last savings of Russians) - was the immediate disarmament of Russia.
A weak Russia is exactly what the entire West craves. In the thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the methods of American intelligence services have not changed. Previously, Soviet dissidents were seduced with chewing gum, jeans, the film "Emmanuelle" and a green bill, for which one could buy goods in "Birch". Now the stakes have increased, but unlike the United States, Russia has changed a lot over the past fifteen to twenty years and will no longer play snot on its fist.
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