Daily Beast: Kremlin Media Still Like Bernie, 'Cause They Love Trump

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15. The Atlantic sure does have some writers doing good work over there

The Russian Trolls’ Next Favorite Candidate

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/russia-trump-bernie-sanders-election-interference/606703/

Luckily for the Russians, then, the two current front-runners for the presidency, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, are both polarizing figures—and they’re both candidates Russian trolls sought to promote in 2016, as Special Counsel Robert Mueller found. This time, the Democratic field is crowded and squabbling, but it includes no hawkish, long-established Hillary Clinton to tear down. If the election does end up being a Trump-Sanders face-off, one of the Kremlin’s favored candidates from 2016 is guaranteed a win. They are far apart ideologically but nearly equally suited to the Kremlin’s interests, both in being divisive at home and in encouraging U.S. restraint abroad. Both Sanders and Trump profess to want to refocus the U.S. inward—a message that clearly appeals to many Americans. But that doesn’t mean the Russian propaganda machine is slowing down; it’s just aimed at a new target.

Darren Linvill, a Clemson University professor who has studied Russian information operations, told me, “Systems like this don’t tend to stop simply because their reason for being no longer exists. They find new reasons for being.” In this case, building on their 2016 successes and worsening divisions in the United States.

Here's a good summary on BS's preferred foreign policy...

The Sanders Doctrine

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/bernie-sanders-doctrine-america-military-foreign-policy/606364/

What the US needs is a POTUS who is not a reckless interventionist like Dubya but neither a dangerous isolationist like Trump or Sanders. Hopefully Biden would be a President who could successfully walk that narrow line. He'll have to find ways not to start stupid costly wars but yet not withdraw from the world stage and hand Putin a free pass to do whatever the hell he wants wherever the hell he wants.