It’s easy to look for and blame external factors for internal problems.
And while this article sounds sensational and angry, the truth is always more trivial.
It’s easy to blame Russia for all American problems, but Russia has it’s own share of problems to work on including economic problems. And American obsession of Russian manipulation of US election looks more and more ridiculous with every passing year. It may look like a reasonable debate inside US, but on International stage it looks foolish and unproductive, when there are more important issues to be discussed.