NEWSWATCH: “Russia Emerges as a Campaign Issue That Can’t Be Ignored” – Wall Street Journal
Russian troops move to the Ukrainian border. Russian jets take off from a base in Iran to attack targets in Syria. Russian #hackers are accused of breaking into Democratic websites. Ukrainian investigators say they believe a top Republican campaign operative took millions in fees from a pro-Russian party. … Add it up and you get an inescapable reality: Russia and the tactics of … Putin are growing not just as security issue for the U.S. but as a presidential campaign issue. * * * … it’s possible he is being aggressive now not because he wants to put himself into the campaign debate in the U.S., but because he thinks Americans are distracted by that campaign, and Europeans by the uncertainty that has followed Britain’s decision to exit from the European Union. He may calculate that in each case domestic political ferment will limit the Western response.