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Just so you know I understand why you would sanction them even though there hacking was amateur kids stuff compared to what the USA has done and is capable of. I mean fucking troll bots and spamming anti Hillary messages on Facebook, really? Like I said you guys do not think they took control of your electronic voting machines. If anything you are more likely to get an election rigged from within! Did not Trump win because he won more state popular votes and that means he got more special people to vote for him since you guys do not elect by pure democracy?I think sanctions will accomplish showing unanimity in the US government and sovereignty of the US country: that Russia's attempts to divide the country and government did not work to the extent that they would prevent punishment of them along partisan lines. To not sanction Russia would be to send the message that we are so senselessly partisan (or, rather, that Republicans are) that you can interfere with our elections and the side that you help, should they get in power, will aid you in undermining our democracy.
As far as the United States' history of election meddling: it's indefensible and needs to be wholly condemned as well, but two wrongs don't make a right, especially when this wrong (Russian meddling) aided the American party (GOP) that is most responsible and most obsessed with interfering with international politics.
I personally don't have a problem with Putin all that much, and I certainly don't think his actions were disproportionate to ours, but it's obvious that a united front is needed on this issue to prevent the appearance of a polity in decay.
I just think you should not try and destroy Russia and how far you go with sanctions can make that difference. It is like the extra hard sanctions that are put on NK which are to cripple them or what the US is and will do to Iran it seems. Russia is not an Iran or North korea so wage huge economic war type sanction on them over the actions of some hacking (which all governments do) is just ridiuclous.
@Fawlty i surprised did not like your post. Maybe Fawlty likes American interenvetion abroad?