Russians never walk away from equity, and their 2016 investment in Trump—let’s be honest, Russians have been investing in Trump since the 1980s, just at the scuzzy Russian-mob level, not at Putin’s rarefied heights—paid off spectacularly. It wasn’t merely that watching Donald bow and scrape like some medieval peasant before his lord gave the Russians a constant thrill. They got the outcome they truly desired—a divided America, weaker in the world than ever before. They got the chaos they love and the deformation of America’s political life into warring factions with nothing in common but their
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