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Originally Posted by djchameleon
In favor of Clinton? No way. You and everyone else thought Hillary was worse than Trump was so worried about her going to War with Russia. There is no way that she would have been easier to get to lift the sanctions. She wasn't buddy buddy at all with Russia and Putin didn't respect her even before her silly ass red button reset thing.
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Yeah but in retrospect (and thanks to our intelligence agencies) we also know that the Russians were attempting to implement different measures to push things in their favor as early as 2015 regardless of who won the election. People talk about the Russian ties between Trump's team and people close to Putin, but those ties existed between some of Hillary's people as well.
But again, as others have pointed out, Russia had no real way of knowing who would win. So they must have had other things in place in the case of a Clinton win. Leverage and all that fun stuff.