The Russian goal is to ruin our democracy. They can't steal it or bomb it so they are simply going to delegitimize it. The best way to obtain this victory is for Russia to admit "yes, we helped Trump. We stole info and traded it. We agreed to help him win and in return Trump promised to give us your gold, power, and follow our orders. We have shown the world that you Americans are greedy, power hungry, and your politicians are even less ethical than what you say about us Russians. And you sold your beloved America for a silly little dose of power." Imagine what that bold, incriminating, admission will do to our functioning democracy as it is splashed on the headlines.
Russia isn't going to care one damn about how much we and the world hate them when they admit playing us. We and the world already pretty much hate the Putin Mafia. What will happen is that we will be in such chaos we won't even be able to organize a floor vote on sanctions. We will have a dysfunctional government, indicted politicians, political parties in shambles, and DOA public confidence. We will be so consumed with our implosion we will be handicapped and withdraw from the world stage. We won’t know if we should poop, scream or wind our watch. In our utter political and economic paralysis Russia will fill the vacuum and pick the world’s fruit.
The Trump team thought they were making a deal. Quid quo pro. No, they were getting set up and now the Russians are going to dime them out so they are unopposed during our implosion as we deal with revelations of our political corruption, greed, collusion, failed democracy, etc. Putin is waiting another five minutes before he publishes his newest book, exhibits and all - How I bought the American Election on the Cheap and Proved to the World America is No Democracy.
Russia has already tested leaks. They leaked the oval office pictures from the oval office. And you can easily find a good number of other leaks by Russia. And they certainly don’t hide when they leak. They brag.
Putin is going to wait for the Trump people to lie a couple more times. They are going to want to make sure there is no escape from the lies. Kellyanne and Fox will have met their match. There will be no possible alternative spin. Russia will lay it out too clearly and the documentation will be solid. They are going to wait until the Republican Party has gone past the point of no return in their support for Trump. The Republicans will be forced to go over the cliff with Team Trump. The Russians are going to wait long enough to show the Democrats were unable to do anything about the Trump collusion. And then they are going to demonstrate, in painful detail, how we have no government, no center, no power, no democracy. We will be in utter chaos. There will be decades of rebuilding while Russia goes it unopposed.
The Russians didn’t want Trump to win. They wanted to bring us down. Trump winning gets them nothing. America’s demise creates a vacuum they are going to love filling. The Russians are going to love telling this story.