This whole discussion is really insufficiently theorized. We're being influenced constantly, by a universe of interests that are networked together in unseen and unpredictable ways. I saw something today about how the pistachio lobby was all foaming for war/sanctions on Iran because they're our biggest pistachio competition. Fucking delicious pistachios pressing us into destructive, horrifying foreign war.

So why is Russia getting in on the parade and sliding their interests into US politics more of a problem than pistachios?

Or, if that question doesn't work: how would we feel if a foreign country influenced our election toward a result which was actually good?