Its worse and doesn’t require a chain of causation. As the Secretary of State, she was responsible for handling all diplomacy with the Russkies. She started off with that retarded reset button scene and it went downhill from there. In all that time, she could have been speaking forcefully against Putin’s depradations, she could have marshalled an alliance of countries to stand up to Russia in the diplomatic sphere, she could have gone to the UN and made a bold presentation.
In short, she did nothing and Putin ate her lunch instead.
Putin ate her lunch because he was reading her mail. You think that whatever Norton Internet Security she was using was able to keep the FSB from hacking into her server?
Putin’s spooks knew what she was up to before she did.