Russia is not the source of our political malaise. Corruption is. Everything else stems as an implication from the corruption. Money is not speech, corporations are not people. Until these principles are affirmed by SCOTUS or the US Constitution, our country and the world will continue to be feasted upon by these oligarchical predators great and small while the US Federal government by their design is dysfunctional or works for their interests over ours. The military-style PsyOps reportedly conducted during the #Brexit vote and the 2016 US General election by entities like Cambridge Analytica for people like Robert Mercer were very well-poised, and it all fits into their modus operandi like a glove, and they did many things, even if no evidence surfaces that this was the particular political operation involved in that. Either way, the Russian ruble has been on sale at half price since 2015 for contracting hacking work, be it authored by their private or public sector for western hire.