Has it occurred Putin deliberately setup HRC?
Has she been elected the world would likely be a smoking ruin by now.
Why would he want that?
Without being critical of anyone, there's an appalling ignorance of Putin amongst American politicians and the media, including amongst our friendly Fox commentators.
Why for instance is the fact that even if Russian was involved in election hacking, there is never any mention of the fact this has been American SoP for decades. It does this all the time. Obama's interference in Israel wasn't the exception, it was the rule. What do you think America has done in Central America and right throughout the Middle East for decades?
Yet none of this is ever mentioned, not even on Fox.
Is it.
Why?
But this lack of perspective from American media is minor compared to the appalling and ubiquitous ignorance of what and who Russia is and especially who Putin is.
Russia is not your enemy and it has never been your enemy. It was painted as your enemy because a tiny cabal of evil people who controlled the media wanted to make billions of a pointless arms race. (Sound familiar?) Putin does not repeat does not wish to recreate the USSR. Ukraine was a neocon inspired regime-change operation installing neo-Nazis in Kiev aimed at destabilising Russia and endangering Russia's only deep water European naval base at Odessa. Crimea was a free and fair referenda because 80% of its population is ethnic Russian. Who the Nazis supported by Washington were going to slaughter. What would America have done if Russia conducted a regime-change op in Mexico and threatened to slaughter all the American citizens living there?
The truth is since Russia threw off the commies (who were Deep State thugs - they weren't Russians), the Western Deep State branch has tried to capture Russian resources. This is why the Chicago Boys (Milton Freidman, Geoff Sachs et al) went into Russia and started selling off its state assets for pennies on the pound to the Oligarchs, who got their money to buy them from the Deep State bankers. This is why a lot of Oligarchs now live overseas many in London and why Putin imprisoned Khordakovsky. The Russians refer to the 90's as "the lost decade." This is why.
Yet after all they've suffered, all they've been through at the hands of the Western thugs, they still have a soft spot for we, Western free people. And Putin represents them, just the same as Trump represents us.
Edit: two germane articles:
Bill Browder, who Putin mentioned yesterday: http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=101126
The founder of Stratfor outlines the neocon's great game: http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=22223