Incidentally, the notion that Putin is attacking the US and the West via the information sharing system is well-known; and that he is doing so is certain.
The UK government exposed it following the poisonings. The US intelligence agencies exposed it following the US elections. So there's a strong factual foundation underlying the claims against Putin, together with the description of his methods.
Poor old Roseanne Barr is a useful idiot in Putin's game. It's sad to see folks falling into the holes he digs.
The big questions are how far his corrupting influence extends. Does it include the NRA? Was Trump colluding in his campaign, or was he a part of the chain of money laundering which has removed assets from Russia? Have they got blackmail information against key members of congress? How many of his cabinet picks are straight shooters?
Addressing these things is a job for the Justice Department. Supporting honest folks like Mueller is the proper approach to investigating the truth of the numerous allegations about Putin's corrupting influence.
It appears we are already in a cyberwar.
Here's how it worked a few years ago in Ukraine:
"The key elements of Russia’s reflexive control techniques in Ukraine have been:
• Denial and deception operations to conceal or obfuscate the presence of Russian forces in Ukraine, including sending in “little green men” in uniforms without insignia;
• Concealing Moscow’s goals and objectives in the conflict, which sows fear in some and allows others to persuade themselves that the Kremlin’s aims are limited and ultimately acceptable;
• Retaining superficially plausible legality for Russia’s actions by denying Moscow’s involvement in the conflict, requiring the international community to recognize Russia as an interested power rather than a party to the conflict, and pointing to supposedly-equivalent Western actions such as the unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo in the 1990s and the invasion of Iraq in 2003;
• Simultaneously threatening the West with military power in the form of overflights of NATO and non-NATO countries’ airspace, threats of using Russia’s nuclear weapons, and exaggerated claims of Russia’s military prowess and success;
• The deployment of a vast and complex global effort to shape the narrative about the Ukraine conflict through formal and social media."
http://www.understandingwar.org/report/putins-information-warfare-ukraine-soviet-origins-russias-hybrid-warfare
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