To me, as a U.S. voter, Russian meddling in our elections is a very big deal. The stuff from Wikileaks regarding the DNC's preference for Clinton over Sanders no doubt alienated a number of Sander's supporters and caused them to vote a 3rd party ticket or stay home. The biggest deciding factor in the very close election (aside from a 30 year smear job the GOP conducted against HRC when they recognized her as a potential political force) was the poor turnout by Democratic voters because T***p won with a small, admittedly enthusiastic, minority of the U.S. population. It's also highly likely that Russia hacked the RNC and T***p campaign (which incidentally could make the current administration vulnerable to blackmail by Putin) and could have dumped a lot of damaging info on them as well but chose not to as it would be counter to their goal of electing Twit or at least crippling a Clinton administration, I can imagine Reince Preibus pulling his hair out over Republican voter's preference for Twit over their chosen son, Jeb Bush. If the current administration colluded in any way we've got to know because our voting rights have been vitiated too much already by restrictive voting laws imposed by Republican state houses and legislatures. This isn't about getting at Twitler, I'm convinced his greed and mendacity will sort him eventually, it's about preserving the only method, along with exercising our 1st amendment rights, we common folk have to influence the course of our nation. The ongoing investigations may lead to nothing but considering all the smokescreens and lying emanating from the White House I'm convinced they've got something to hide.

As for Putin, I think it would be hard to make the argument that in recent years his Russia is not the most hegemonistic and aggressive power on the world stage.