There is so very much hypocrisy in the air and on the ground these days! One type that is prominent is the claim that Russia has interfered with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. If true, that is obviously a bad thing. But as this article from Mint News indicates, it is a rare news article that reminds its consumers that the United States has a long history of interfering with the elections in other countries:

Despite that the U.S. has hypocritically exerted influence over foreign elections in all corners of the globe — in fact, it has arrogantly done so a whopping 81 times between 1946 and 2000, alone — with just one-third of those operations undertaken overtly.

Check out the article for the details.

[Added November 11, 2022]

Did the Russians meaningfully interfere with U.S. elections? The data says no. “New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US PoliticsFar from being a sophisticated propaganda campaign, it was small, amateurish, and mostly unrelated to the 2016 election.”

And I couldn’t resist reposting this tweet by Glenn Greenwald: