We also meddle in foreign governments elections.
That we do, but again, this takes place on both sides of the pond. Much like spying, just about everybody tries/does it. As the article below suggests, I expect Trumper to give his own influence/intervention a go at it too.
http://yournewswire.com/us-interfered-in-foreign-elections-81-times-in-54-years/ US Interfered In Foreign Elections 81 Times In 54 YearsPosted on December 26, 2016 by Edmondo Burr
Dov Levin, a political scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, amassed a database of US election interference abroad, which shows just how common that practice has been throughout recent US history. According to Levin’s work, the US interfered in 81 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000.
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these incidents do not include those that have taken place over the past 16 years. Under
Bush, election intervention was a common policy practiced jointly through regime change, as evidenced by Bush’s covert intervention in the Iraqi elections of 2005.
In a 2006 interview, Hillary Clinton argued that allowing Palestine to hold elections was a mistake. “I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,” said Clinton. “And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.” The same such interference continued later under
Obama, such as in the 2015 elections in Haiti.
It is also worth noting that
the report does not include the numerous military coups and regime change efforts the US has led in the same time period. Notable military coups of the past century include those which took place in Guatemala, Iran, and Chile – all of which were bank-rolled and executed with US military assistance. Regime change efforts continue to today, particularly in Syria, as US imperialism seeks continue to dominate all other nations in the name of “protecting democracy.” Though
President-Elect Trump has pledged to not continue this long-standing practice, it remains to be seen if he will be able to resist the “deep state” or if he will be forced to serve its interests like the Presidents before him.