The title is a bit misleading. Election hacking is maybe 10% of the article and I admit it’s easy to read the first few paragraphs and drop off (it’s quite long

The title is a bit misleading. Election hacking is maybe 10% of the article and I admit it’s easy to read the first few paragraphs and drop off (it’s quite long). As a Russian, I think the article does a good job to describe Russia’s foreign (and domestic) policy of the last decade or so and it’s effects and likely outcomes long term (or lack thereof). TLDR; Russia is/has always tried to stir the pot (especially after it never has regained the title of world power after the fall of USSR) and recently has found clever ways to exploit the naïveté of “the West”, however it seems doubtful it will bring anything good in the long term for Putin mainly because of bigger issues he faces inside Russia.