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Do we even really know it was Russia? Everything I've seen so far seems to assume that rather than have a confirmed link.

edit: source seems to be Washington Post article "according to people familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity"

https://web.archive.org/web/20201213220635if_/https://www.wa...



Not that I've been able to discern. But why live in a world of ambiguity when you can blame everything you don't like on a central antagonist'


I treat anonymously sourced news articles as a coin toss nowadays—assume a 50% chance that the claims in the article are unqualified truth.


Wow, I guess CIA only needs pay for two pieces to convince you of the Truth™.


If you believe that's how coin tosses work, you could believe almost anything.


That's not how probabilities work




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