A little-noticed paragraph in the recent US intelligence community report about Russia’s hacking of the US elections makes me wonder whether Moscow’s next step will be to conduct cyber-espionage campaigns to help elect authoritarian populist leaders in Germany and France’s elections this year, and in Mexico’s 2018 elections.
It sounds like the plot of a political thriller. But the January 6 joint statement of the CIA, the FBI and the National Security Agency says that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered cyberattacks to help Donald Trump win the US presidential election,