I think that this man believes, and certainly fears, that hacking is a problem.

@SamKerry Global problem? Belief, allegations and faith are not proof.

@Treasurehunter There's no smoking gun. But with our critical minds, we don't need a smoking gun - just a lot of circumstantial evidence that suggests that a gun was very likely and most probably fired.

E.g. Facebook's transparency efforts. They cited direct political reasons behind them: [newsroom.fb.com] If Facebook has not found reasons for adding these systems to their platform, why would they add these systems to their platform?

Also, how would we ever find out, one way or the other, t if the U.S. population was truly affected by foreign parties through social media, if it is not investigated?

@SamKerry There is a lot of circumstantial evidence for the existence of God or gods. that is why there are religions and many of them proclaiming to be the one true religion and the others are false.

Sure you can investigate, but the allegations made are to the extent of certainty when there has been no evidence of significant influence.

Our political establishments are trying to blame their problems on the Russian ogre. It would be to my political advantage if the Russians had meddled in the UK referendum and we could have nullified the result. I do not believe the Russians meddled in the run up to the election. Even if they did,I do not believe the effect had any significance. The blatant lies told by the Leave camp still go unpunished, and it was the London centric nature of our current and past governments that caused the electorate to vote to leave. It was a massive political blunder on the part of our leaders who were so confident of remaining in the EU, that no plans whatsoever were made for the eventuality of a Leave result. There are constitutional and other arguments why the referendum result did not have to be followed.

@Treasurehunter I actually agree that most of the problems the U.S. face (e.g. Electoral Collage, Gerrymandering, the recent Tax bill, corporations off-shoring work, corporations donating to political parties, etc.) are domestic problems and have nothing to do with Russia.

Jimmy Dore (a YouTube political commentator that I watch a lot amongst other political commentators) is against his colleagues in stating that the Russian collusion investigation is distracting Americans from the real issues. And I believe him.

He also doesn't believe there is evidence in Trump colluding with Russia. However, he has not said that Robert Muller should cease investigating it - as far as I know. He does admit that there is enough circumstantial evidence to warrant an investigation.

The points of interest between Trump and Russia that I've learned are:
1: Trump has not enforced sanctions against Russia that he was forced to approve back in early 2017
2: Trump is known to have owe Deutsche Bank millions (billions?) of dollars. Trump waived the penalties to Deutsche Bank imposed by whatever international body that found Deutsche Bank and 4 other banks responsible for the LIBOR scandal from a few years ago. Deutsche Bank is known to have ties to Russia.
3: Trump' son, I'm can't remember who, has been known to mention that without Russian loans, Trump would not have been saved from his several bankruptcies. Trumps many properties (condominiums, hotel spaces, building office spaces, etc.) are known to have been sold to Russian businesses.
4: And many more "circumstantial" evidence. One or, at most, two coincidences, will not raise suspicion. But Trump has more connections to Russia than can be counted in 5 fingers.
5: Because of all these "connections", Russia had a stake in helping Trump win the election.
6: All that doesn't even include Russia's efforts in simply destablising (via political donations, ads, and propaganda like the RT YouTube channel) the "west".

Did you know that Russian is actually looking forward to Global Warming? Politically and economically, Global Warming will open the Arctic Ocean. Do you know which country has increased their activity (to increase their "soft power" ) in the Arctic in last several years?

EDIT: NSA confirmed that Russia hacked the French election "infrastructure" leading up to the recent presidential election. [wired.com]

@SamKerry All those articles are trying to pin it on Russia. Here is an article which pins responsibility for foreign espionage at the highest level on its own ally [america.aljazeera.com]. Why do such things to your own ally?

Politicians have long used foreign bogeymen to further their own interests. Sometimes it does not go as planned [thetimes.co.uk]

Deutche Bank is German and itself was the subject of potential insolvency concerns. I am not convinced of such arguments that Russia (who does not control it) could manipulate the major German bank. If by ties you mean done business in Russia, I believe there are strong calls in parts of Europe for increased trade with Russia. There was resistance to the imposing of sanctions against Russian gas so that US liquified gas could be sold to Europe.

If Trump has not enforced sanctions that he was forced to approve, then there must be something wrong with the system of government. I understand that further sanctions have been applied against Russia by the US.

With suggested evidence, there are reports that the American intelligence services can hack into systems and leave false "fingerprints" to implicate other nations.

Russia using soft power and hard power to bolster its interests in the arctic? It's their sovereign territory that they are re-establishing bases on and securing interests in land/sea very close to their territory. Unlike a country featured in this rather alarming documentary

A lot of the CO2 reduction targets used baseline from about 1990 and emission targets. Russia suffered major industrial decline after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia is a significant contributor to greenhouse gases but not the largest. [en.wikipedia.org]

America is part of NATO the most powerful military pact in the world and its military budget is more than that of the next 9 countries combined budgets. [weforum.org] What is the point of such excessive military might and spending? Deterrent or dominance (bullying)? You only have to listen to the recent rhetoric about rocket man and dotard.

With respect to "Western" anger about influence in its internal political affairs and compare the scale of interference and indignant anger with what happens in a country which is the subject of this article. [america.aljazeera.com].

Russia, China, & developing countries have some way to go to reach liberal democratic government models with preservation of human rights. Rome was not built in a day.

I wish that people/government had more respect for others and acted without selfish oppression.