[raquo]

Well, both Putin and the US have good-to-them reasons to interfere in each others elections. And to interfere in Russian elections.

On a serious note, the reason you don't hear about it is because US interference in Russia, whatever that was, didn't come even close to turning Russian elections.

[havetocharge]

So, if I was to draw a parallel, murder is only bad if it is successful?

[raquo]

First, that's not much of a parallel. The morality of generic murder is clearcut, the morality of interference with other countries elections is not. Not everyone subscribes to prime directive. As a Russian I personally appreciate that someone is at least trying to instill some positive change in Russia.

Morals aside, you said

> It's curious this is virtually never mentioned amidst all the accusations of Russia involving itself in US elections.

I told you why. Because whatever the US did was not effective, and it's not as newsworthy as things that are happening in the US and affecting Americans.

[dragonwriter]

> murder is only bad if it is successful?

If it’s nobody gets killed, it’s not murder. I think the principle that attempted murder, unsuccessful conspiracy to commit murder, or soliciting a murder which does not actually occur are lesser offenses than murder is fairly well established.

[belorn]

Here in Sweden, conspiracy to commit murder (which includes solicitation of murder) carries the exact same punishment as murder, successful or not.

I remember a old conspiracy case (not for murder) where the actually crime could not be proven to have even existed, but the conspiracy could, so the accused got convicted and sentenced as if the crime had existed and they did it.

[toephu2]

That is somewhat true, I believe attempted murder sentences are lighter than actual murder sentences.