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Why Russia would protect this administration interests like that?
To further destabilize the country.
It is serving their interests.
Would it not be more destabilizing to allow this leak to go through? Seems like by stopping this, they are propping up the government?
The government is not the country.
The sense of justice is being denied. The feeling of their oppressor being shielded is prolonged.
They want citizens boiling.
It's ridiculous that people in this thread actually believe this. Why would they use russian IPs if it was a russian DDOS attack, lol. It would be like signing your name on a bomb threat.
Why would they care if they are identified? Who's going to do ANYTHING about it?
Also, maybe they WANT the world to know they can do things like this, like changing votes in an election. If you want the world to know you are in control, you have to demonstrate it.
or it could simply be a red herring because russia = bad, so therefore it must be true because they are also bad.
Because theres no reason not to.
What do you suppose they have to lose from such a brazen attack in defence of the interests of the leader at the expense of the people he hates?
Or poisoning your dissidents with a compound only used by the Russian government.
Well they paid for it...
This is a classic case of VPN
Or botnet of infected computers (not excluding VPN use).