re: Ukraine involvement in 2016 elections

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Putin was never head of the KGB. You fail.

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He served as director of the FSB, the KGB's successor agency. Hooray for you.

You're a dipshit.

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Has been confirmed several times by Russian intelligence.

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Weird... The country responsible for the 2016 election interference as determined by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee as well as every part of the Intelligence Community is saying someone else did it? It's not like their oligarchs are under crippling US sanctions from congress through the Magnitsky Act due to that interference. Putin desperately needs those removed to keep the oligarchs happy and in line. Removing the blame from Russia would give the pretext to remove those sanctions.

Russia is an adversary with essentially a dictator, that was a former spy during the USSR, who's main two goals are to rebuild the former Soviet Union and destabilize the west. Russia being an adversary has been the long held view of the Republicans and the country in general since WWII. Aside from that, they've literally invaded Ukraine and took over an area the size of Texas with a military wearing no insignia or flags identifying themselves in an attempt to maintain "plausible deniability". They've also been determined to have assassinated dissents and defectors on foreign soil. I'm absolutely blown away that, only since Trump has taken office, have so many of his supporters completely abandoned Russia's entire history towards us and believe they're now acting in good faith.