alt Hacker NewsI'll certainly give you that. We have a (reasonably!) healthy democracy in Blighty, despite our grumblings.
Though it's fair to say that had the referendum been held more recently, Russian interference would have been orders of magnitude more severe. I'm not sure what the solution is to protect against such interference. (That is, interference in the worlds democracies, not just ours).
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> I'm not sure what the solution is to protect against such interference. (That is, interference in the worlds democracies, not just ours).
Do to them what they do to us. Make "FAFO" a thing again.
We once upon a time stopped supporting the Russian opposition and it cost us dearly.
As for "what can we do now" - for every attributed or even suspected action of interference by Russia, Ukraine gets handed another few billion dollars worth of ammunition. When something gets attributed to Iran, give some nice toy to Israel. When something gets attributed to China, how about some missiles for Taiwan. We don't need to engage in wars ourselves, but we can put serious impedances against their plans.
The only ones I can't think of a solution are the North Koreans because they're so isolated and have the unique advantage that for anything we do they can shoot ballistics onto South Korea.
Politics is a bit like the roads in that it depends on manners, trust, mutual respect and a sense of fair play.