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To me it's like, obvious that the federal system largely runs on bribes and buy-in. Given our international proclivities, it feels wildly hypocritical to be mad that other countries try to establish their own buy-in with our system.
Like, democrats will throw trans people under the bus for not donating enough and supporting leftists over them. They're petty, punitive, and look at everything from a numbers pov - be that attention, sympathy/alignment, and most especially, straight up money.
That we often just pick a nation at random to make an Official Enemy every few years makes it entirely sensible that the international situation is one of people trying to protect themselves from that inevitability both domestically and in Washington DC
It's hard to have a problem with it in that manner. It's hard to care, because there's no way Russian influence actually matters a whole lot beyond creating opportunities for their own buy-in to national concerns.