Russia

What? People outside of the U.S. have a say in our democracy? Yes. Yes they do. Not legally, they don't, but when it comes to allowing besties Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to share dinner in the White House, there are no laws. It's a well known fact by now that there was involvement of Russian Hackers in the Presidential Election, but the issues resulting from this go well beyond just a minor private infringement. Maybe Donald Trump wasn't supposed to be president. Maybe it was supposed to be Hillary. Maybe. Not likely, but maybe. But this issue goes well beyond just the fact that the results of the election may have been "rigged". This is a matter of the security of our democracy. The message that was sent by the Russians when they hacked the results was that voting doesn't matter. My changing the results of one of the most important polls in history and the determining factor of the success of the human race, the Russians disrupted our democracy. Our government is based on the idea that the people of the country are able to decide their own future. When there is a foreign source interfering with that structure, it becomes useless because now, it is not the people of the country that are deciding how they want their future to go but it is rather the upper class of another country. This is only one problem though. By helping Donald Trump win the election (regardless of whether he helped a lot or not), Vladimir Putin did something of which Trump has to repay him for. So now, in the future, when Russia wants to hurt the U.S. and take advantage of us, all he has to do is bring up the time when he helped our president win the election. Putin has Trump "under his belt". Now, is Obama wrong for expelling Russian diplomats that may have taken part in the hacks? No, he is merely defending the democracy. Is Putin wrong for not "retaliating"? No, he needs to deal with the consequences. The issue is when you look deeper: Putin is trying to keep his interactions with the U.S. after the election until Trump is president to a minimum, because everything will be easier then. Still, the worst part is that Trump is falling for it, calling him "very smart" and accepting his motions.

The U.S. democracy is not something to mess with and once again, despite the huge mess that we have gotten ourselves into, I'm sure that we will be able to recover form it.