http://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/russia-had-plenty-work-the-crisis-american-democracy-18999?page=show

Russia Had Plenty to Work With: The Crisis in American Democracy

Paul R. Pillar

January 9, 2017

The health, or sickness, of democracy in foreign countries has long been a matter of concern in the United States, notwithstanding disagreements regarding exactly what the United States can, or should, do to promote democracy abroad.  Consider the case of the following country—for now, let us call it Slobbovia—as outsiders would view it and as it might be the subject of something equivalent to a State Department dispatch or a report from a nongovernmental organization concerned with democracy. http://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/russia-had-plenty-work-the-crisis-american-democracy-18999?page=show