As a powerful nation, you need to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. Our pre-existing discord is encouraged and exploited by hostile foreign actors (primarily Russia because of our support for Ukraine, but also China, and Iran) just like Russia did to Georgia (Republic of), Moldova, and Hungary.
I volunteered to do election observation here in Georgia last week; the cheating was well-documented, and this in a country where you need a passport or a national voter ID card, both of which are checked against a national database, to vote. The cheating was pretty ham-handed (lots the Russians do is), and when Georgia's President (she was NOT on the ballot) called them out on it, Putin's man Dimtry Medvedev wanted her arrested. In Georgia, a sovereign nation.
"Dismiss and arrest the President of Georgia", – was the order given by the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, to the authorities of the Georgian Dream.
He responded to the statement of Salome Zurabishvili regarding the non-recognition of the elections and wrote in social media:
"The proxy President of Georgia refused to recognize the election results and went against the constitution by calling for a coup. In such cases, the standard practice is dismissal and arrest." Medvedev urges Georgian Dream to dismiss and arrest president Zurabishvili - Georgia Today
My strong suggestion is that one shouldn't fly to Georgia, drink some Saperavi in a sidewalk cafe, then loudly snicker about Russian election interference as if it were a hoax if one wants to keep one's natural front teeth.
The nonsense that FEMA is not doing their best in North Carolina is just more fertile ground for Russian disinformation attempts from Doppelganger, Storm-1575, Storm-1679, and other Russian troll farms.
Dismiss these attempts on our country at our common peril.
