Cheney
said there were a "rising number of threats" in
the world that, beyond national security, "even
pose a threat to the globalization movements
you're here to talk about today."
Segueing into talking about Russian President
Vladimir Putin, Cheney warned of Russia's
aggressive actions.
"I think he has designs on the Baltics. ... We
know he wanted Crimea — he took it," said
Cheney, who pointed to previous Russian cyber
campaigns against Baltic states and Russia's
recent moves to
nuclearize its European enclave of Kaliningrad.
On the
subject of the 2016 election, Cheney said Russia
attacked the US in a possible act of war.
"There's no question that there was a very
serious effort made by Mr. Putin and his
government, his organization, to interfere in
major ways with our basic fundamental democratic
processes," Cheney said. "In some quarters, that
could be considered an act of war.
"I
would not underestimate the weight that we as
Americans assign to Russian attempts to
interfere with our process," Cheney concluded.
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