Germans Worry About Election Tampering

Perhaps they should worry.  It seems the Germans are worried about the same type of election tampering from the Russians that besieged the United States. The Russians seem to want to get their sticky finders into any country with a democratic form of government, and Germany certainly fits in that category.  Perhaps they have not been adequately deterred from this kind of behavior.

The French and Germans have something in common with the Balkan states and the US in that all of them have been hacked by the Russians, who seemingly have gotten away with it.  There are enough countries now that they need to coordinate a response to Mr. Putin that will make him put his toys back in the box where they belong.

To start, his own election is coming up, and a coordinated response might put a big dent in his arrogance and make him think twice about doing this kind of thing again.  The French and Germans have pretty good cyber programs and could make things difficult for the Russians.  We have to think the US would be glad to help them out after all the trouble they caused in the US election.  That is not something we are going to quickly forget.  

We could broadcast pre-election polls that show how unpopular the ruling party actually is.  Since it is against the law there, we would have to ignore Russian law, just as the Russians have done in every other country they have attacked.

We could attack the voting systems themselves, just as the Russians did in the Ukraine when they tried to prevent tabulation of votes as they were cast.

We could steal letters the oligarchs have been sending back and forth with the government and expose all the corruption and double dealing that the opposition parties are trying to raise as issues.  Helping them would be nice.

We could expose the Russian press stories that are nothing like "fake news" reported elsewhere.  There is no element of truth to some of their stories and debunking them is much easier than anywhere else.

Lastly, just for fun, we should get the help of the other countries to deny the little dictator any use of computers.  Instead of monitoring him, Sabatoge his computers and cell phones and attack any network he uses.  It is called personalization of risk.  I can't imagine how he believes he can get away with trying to undermine the democratic processes of so many countries without having retribution against him.  It's not like our leaders have more to hide than the Russian leaders.  It's not like the Russians are better at these kinds of things than the combined resources of the democracies.  Is it?