Under a second Clinton administration, the deterioration of the American military in all respects will continue. Only the United States can give any strength to NATO pledges to protect the Baltic States, Poland, and even Norway. The other NATO militaries, with the exception of Poland, are even weaker than ours. If and when Putin decides the time is right to take back what was lost in 1991, NATO will be impotent to stop them. All of Hillary's squawking and hand wringing will be a mere manifestation of American and Western weakness.
Additionally, the results of this election will further divide this nation. A large portion of the anti-liberal opposition is out of the "corral" of the Republican Party establishment and the Fox News/National Review/Westwood One/Salem Communications moderate/ conservative media. Trump has radicalized the base. The voice of the future anti-liberal opposition may be Alex Jones, and not Rush Limbaugh.
This will have the effect of turning the United States into two increasingly hostile camps. This is not always a good thing. French rightists opposed to the leftist government of their country had a saying, "Better Hitler than Blum." Will American rightists, somewhat enamored of Putin's traditional values and Orthodox Christian faith, be saying. "Better Putin than Hillary"?
Your well spoken reply sort of highlights my point.
If its in Putin’s interest to see Hellary elected, Russia would not be leaking these, even if they were able to hack them.
My supposition, and only a supposition, requires Russia to see a more reasonable US as the better choice, which might only be true if Putin is PO’ed enough over the whole middle east and ISIS fiasco that Hellary and Obama have unleashed. On the other hand, Russia now has access to warm water ports as a result so maybe he does want Hellary. Or maybe he’s had just enough to get what he was looking for and now wants the US to back off so he can consolidate.
You can go round and round on this.
Bottom line, I found it odd that Hellary says that Russia would want Trump to beat her. But you are correct that a Hellary presidency would be subject to blackmail from all corners.