Wherever did you get that I consider Al Qaeda an ally? Is that your best attempt at gaslighting? How can I respect someone who blatantly lies like you are doing? I’ve been on reddit for a decade, please find me where I’ve said - or even implied - al Qaeda is an ally.

The Five Eyes have been sounding the alarm about Russia’s interference in democratic elections around the world for a long time now - that’s not a Cold War tactic, that’s something that’s ramped up in the timeline you yourself just articulated. Russia is using mercenary forces to cause discord and outright assist in coup attempts across Africa. These are national security issues. These are facts. No one is anticipating conventional warfare from Russia - they are sending an army across the Alaska border, they aren’t sending ships and planes across the Pacific. Warfare isn’t occurring overtly, but again, you know how well Russia infiltrated the gop. I don’t recall any democrats summoned to Moscow on the Fourth of July. I can name you some republicans that were, though. I don’t recall any democrat president saluting a North Korean soldier, but a Republican president did.