Long article on election tampering that has a well-laid out timeline of recent Ukraine events since 2000. Interesting read with lots of details. The timeline is only about half of the article.
The big kerfuffle over Russian trolls electing Donald Trump in 2016 is only amazing in its ability to consistently overlook some 80 elections in other nations whose outcome was determined by campaign-finance or hardware vote-hacking by the CIA over many decades, using tools that much resemble and perhaps pioneered the Cambridge Analytica variety.
Recall, for instance, the 2014 regime change in Ukraine, where President Barack Obama spent $5 billion paying Ukrainians to riot and dismantle their Russia-allied government in favor of one that could potentially bring Ukraine into NATO’s orbit. We would know little of this had not whistleblowing hackers posted a telephone conversation between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and then US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, to YouTube. We can now see the complete sequence that followed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s election tampering directive:
21 November 2013: Protests start after Ukraine announces it will not sign a deal aimed at strengthening ties with the EU 17 December: Russia agrees to buy $15 billion of Ukrainian government bonds and slash the price of gas it sells to the country 16 January 2014: Parliament passes a law restricting the right to protest 22 January: Two protesters die from bullet wounds during clashes with police in Kyiv; protests spread across many cities 25 January: President Yanukovych offers senior jobs to the opposition, including that of the prime minister, but these are rejected 28 January: Parliament votes to annul protest law and President Yanukovych accepts the resignation of PM and cabinet 29 January: Parliament passes an amnesty law for detained protesters, under the condition occupied buildings are vacated
