Netlflix has a good series on how Cutter, and Russia for that matter, managed to snag the 2022 and 2018 World Cups.
It was basically a matter of figuring out where the bulk of the votes were, and then working to make sure that they indeed voted ‘correctly’, although unlike the US, they didn’t ‘vote by mail’, but instead filled out and dropped their ballots privately - so we’ll never know for sure how each country voted.
FIFA at its finest