I think we can and should separate the people of another country and the government and/or oligarchy that controls them (and sometimes - us.) There are forces in the world that are more concerned with making the world better for the elite - of which they are part. Nor is our country immune to that. But, for now, most democracies have some built-in guard rails to protect the rest of us.
IMO, Russia, China, and some other countries are currently governed by people and systems that would be happy if the more democratic countries became the same as theirs. They have and are interfering in the politics and economies of other countries - including ours.
We are ALREADY at war with them. Happily not in a hot war, but certainly in an information and digital war. Just this last week US officials delivered a warning that Chinese hackers are targeting infrastructure. WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Hackers linked to the Chinese government are targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, preparing to cause "real-world harm" to Americans, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a congressional committee on Wednesday. Russia has morphed and modernized its information warfare into what Rand describes as "the contemporary Russian model for propaganda as “the firehose of falsehood” Nor are they the only ones to employ this strategy.
*Note: sorry about this digression from talking about SS, but some earlier posts made me want to address this.
