Nothing, really. Nothing negative at least. Russia has broken no laws, is only guilty of being shady in the same manner as we are lol. I think we're overreacting to what essentially amounts to a symptom of a disease. The real problem isn't Russia expressing an opinion, but how it was presented. They did sneaky things TM like we all do. The reason being open diplomacy in a paranoid world is challenging.

Why not offer the world a vote, since every American fart in the wind has the potential to impact everyone's life, economy, food supply, etc. The world is pissed, like Americans, that the USG doesn't listen and take everyone's interests into account. We've developed a bad habit as a world here, of mistrust, secrets, and information wars. I think that the world [other nations and their people] feel they should have a voice, and I agree.

Russia can't run political ads openly, obviously, but why not? If myself, Rush Limbaugh, or David Duke can buy an ad, why not? State clearly whose opinion it is, and be done with it. If Justin Beiber put out an anti-trump campaign, would everyone panic? Besides, read the reports, no harm was done or could have been done. RT was the most watched news on YouTube with over 5 billion views. A few Facebook ads or tweets made all the difference? If they were gonna change peoples' opinions, wtf was another $200k USD gonna do? Don't forget they were approached and asked to buy ads in the first place.

Perhaps their arguments bear consideration since we've spent over half a century examining each other and analyzing each other's systems for flaws and coming up with every creative way imaginable to rebut the rationale, suggest improvements to processes, and criticize legislature. Such an opinion sounds valuable as hell to me. I love when people tell me I'm ate up, please do so I know.

Is it so hard to accept that Americans might agree with non-Americans on issues? WTF is so terrifying? I went to elementary school during the Cold War in a school which was an underground bomb shelter designed with 18 ft. of reinforced concrete to withstand nuclear strikes in the area. We heard every piece of propaganda there was to hear, I met Reagan on the playground, and I'm a Veteran now myself. The brainwashing failed I guess because I still, rather more than ever, think we need to grow up and re-prioritize our efforts. Why can we not accept that we're on the same dirt ball? We're neighbors in fact, with so much in common that it's laughable.

I gave it a lot of thought, and realized there is really no way I can understand Russians. After spending over a year studying Russian language, culture, intercultural communication, and history, I realized everything I thought was wrong. We've been misled quite badly on both sides by assumptions, misgivings, preemptive fuckery, and old emotions. How many of your friends know we got Alaska from Russia, or about Valentina Tereshkova? I mean we're being guided by the provably unfounded opinions of people not qualified to even have an informed perspective on the subject, to everyone's detriment.

Invite Russia to roast us, and have a public analysis of the feedback. Let's act like we give a shit and hear them out instead of forcing these silly spy games as our only means of discourse. Look how fast people flipped out when Trump wanted to establish a line to Putin. Wtf? Because 'I'm not talking to you because you don't think just like me' always works wonderfully, no?

To go a step further we could declare amnesty for all offenses in the spirit of understanding, truly forgive each other, and invite our governments to literally come over and talk. No secrets, complete data exchange. Invite Russian agents to NORAD, sit down and do an AMA. Tour the Kremlin with US officials. We think they did this, they think we did that, maybe we did maybe they did... Labor stories.

I'd bet if we laid all the cards on the table for each other and agreed to a cooperative path forward with an exchange of intelligence, defense, science, and medical information, we would find atrocities we never imagined on both sides as well as tons of wrong assumptions. Can't we have a laugh, exchange some glares, and hug before walking out before the press to announce that the notion of destabilizing the free world is over, and the games are too? That from this moment forward, we will consider our impact on all people of all nations and abandon the fallacious thinking that either of us has the right answers all the time?

Or are we really so self-serving that we cannot bear criticism of our beliefs and methods, even when we cause harm to others. Fuck 'em then? Frustration leads to wanting to feel this way, but nobody really means it and we all pay for it when we give up.

Or maybe I'm crazy. o/ There is no Deep and Mysterious Russian Soul, and Americans are so ignorant they can't even see how ignorant they are. Accept this and be friends without completely agreeing on everything? Maybe? Sounds like just having respect for others to me, which is also having respect for yourself.

As an experiment, here is a Soviet propaganda film from 1979. Check it out, at the time it seemed extremist, insulting, a danger to the free world... But how does it look now? Did we change, or did perceptions? Does the concept, the warning about dangers of western extravagance, seem unfair or untrue to you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRSsybt9wAo&t=518s