A nation must think before it acts.
President Trump characteristically tweeted that the indictments brought by Robert Mueller on Feb. 16 means that the case alleging Russian collusion with his campaign is closed. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The implications of these indictments do not prove that the Trump campaign —not to mention the president — did not collude with Russian agents in 2016. Moreover, they reveal the immense scope of the ongoing Russian campaign to attack the integrity of our electoral and other political processes and incite socio-ethnic tensions throughout the United States.
First, these indictments actually confirm Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats’ testimony to Congress earlier last week that we are under attack. Russian officials have believed themselves to be in a war with the West since at least 2004, if not even earlier, and have conducted themselves accordingly. These indictments confirm this.