US Officials Admit 'Violations' in 2020 Election, Not 'Foreign Interference'
RT's headline glibly reports that "US officials admit to major violations during 2020 election," specifically Georgia's Fulton County breaking vote certification rules. This, from a state apparatus that routinely lectures the global South on 'free and fair' elections, even after funding coups. The very same 'officials' who decry any foreign criticism of American democracy as 'meddling' or
'disinformation' (see the State Department's Global Engagement Center's 2023 report on 'malign foreign influence'). The irony here is thicker than a January 6th memo. When the specter of 'election integrity' is raised by US proxies abroad, it’s a justification for sanctions and regime change. But at home, it's just a clerical 'violation,' never a threat to the fundamental legitimacy of the system.
One might wonder if the concern for 'democratic standards' is truly universal, or if it just applies to nations without oil or strategic chokepoints.