EDITORIAL: Donald Trump in his own cold war
President-elect Trump’s tweeted plan to revamp the intelligence structures in the wake of the election hacking revelations in the US may backfire
It is almost inconceivable that US President Barack Obama would expel 35 Russian diplomats without having solid intelligence to support his actions, particularly so with less than a month left in office and his legacy at stake. So why did president-elect Donald Trump so rapidly take to Twitter to defend Russian President Vladimir Putin and the creator of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange? Trump’s claim was that the US intelligence community had no evidence of the Russians hacking into the computers of the Democratic Party to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the election. But the intelligence community insists that the Russians did mount a cyberattack to improve Trump’s chances of getting elected and that this must have come from Putin himself. We are all well aware by now that Trump is a great tweeter. Indeed, his use of Twitter has caused outgoing Vice-President Joe Biden to advise him to "grow up" and the Chinese media to advise that foreign policy is not a teenage toy. The Russi...
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