How do you distinguish "Russian operatives" from western corporations who subcontract to same? Does this launder accountability and leave it as Russia's feet, or were they always just proxies for the mil-spec Psychological Warfare operators like Robert Mercer and Steve Bannon's Cambridge Analytica and their functional attacks upon liberal democracy? This entire conversation about Russia continues to feel like a completely disingenuous diversion. Let's not go there, after all, we are not total tools, even if our establishment is farcical, dishonest, and corrupt, and even though it circulates these likely lies out in its failed attempts to reshape the possible and destinies according to its fallen sordid predilections of evil.
( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy )