The alternate views depend on one possibly-faulty assumption: that Putin wanted Trump to become President.
If Putin wanted to say "your electoral process is as bad as mine," then what he did makes perfect sense.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
If Putin wanted to say "your electoral process is as bad as mine," then what he did makes perfect sense.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012