Did the Russians hack the 2016 US Election?

[Kalimantan]

No thats silly (I really hope), but they've tried to influence it in other ways, and they'll be happy with the outcome.

Most worried about the impact on NATO, and his talk of potentially abandoning NATO members.

Its always been the case that an attack on one member that will illicit a response of war from all other members, has prevented Russian Adventurism. Russia is a mafia state, with a leader hellbent on reversing the collapse of the soviet union "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century" (his words), he's broken off parts of Moldova, he's invaded and broken off part of Georgia, he's invaded and stolen Crimea and has invaded Donbas in Ukraine East killing over 10,000 and shooting down a civilian airliner in the process, he's daily playing brinkmanship games with the baltic states Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania pushing them to see what he can get away with.

His bombers are buzzing the UK, he's done simulated nuclear bombing runs on Sweden, he's funding all the far right and far left movements in the EU, who are against the EU. He's trying to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy it. But for all his intimidation and brinkmanship, the NATO pact has prevented any real attack on a NATO member as yet, but now we have trump, who has many pro Russian political advisors, talking about abandoning the NATO pact. That is the green light for Putin, the serial opportunist who will always go up to and after the maximum he thinks he can get away with.

There will be some seriously worried people this morning in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania