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Once the U.S. intelligence community came to the conclusion that Russian state actors had interfered in aspects of the 2016 presidential election, a question immediately arose as to whether the Kremlin sought to tilt the scale decisively in Donald Trumps favor or the highest ambition of its alleged hacking and disinformation campaigns during the run-up to the U.S. vote was merely a marginal diminution of faith in Western-style democracy. Consensus seemed to form around the notion that the latter came closer to truth.

Surveying the postelection status quo, an Obama administration official quoted in the much-discussed New Yorker story Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War, frames an alternate, and ultimately more hopeful, question:

The triple-bylined story, spanning 15 pages of the weekly magazine, examines, among numerous other facets, the shaping of the post-1989 (and post-1991) Putin worldview; how the Clintons, and President Obama, became Putin nemeses; when and how Kremlin-aligned entities evolved into global leaders in cyberwarfare tactics, particularly given that Putin himself rarely uses a computer; how alleged Russian efforts in the U.S. culminating last fall could become a template for similar interference in coming European elections; and why the Obama administration was so unwilling to raise the alarm when presented evidence in mid-2016 that Russia had insinuated itself in the central act of American democracy.

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Russian election hack might also expose a strength of American democracy - MarketWatch