In the name of Allah, the Merciful to all, the Compassionate

Yesterday the Obama administration expelled 35 Russian diplomats and closed two Russian estates in New York and Maryland. Obama also sanctioned the Russian external intelligence service FSB and the military intelligence service GRU as well as some of its leaders. The reason given was to retaliate for Russian efforts to interfere with the US presidential election.

Let’s put aside the debate about what really Russians did and how successful their “hacking” to influence the U.S. election was. The more important issue is that the President of United States claims that one of many of their adversaries could hack into the election and influence the results, and they could not do anything about it.

Attention anyone who still thinks the United States is a superpower: