All of that is true, and it does explain their meddling in our elections. But I will come back to the fact that I don’t think that they could really affect the outcome, nor did they believe that they could affect the outcome. And if they did, they most certainly would not support Trump, because they are rational actors. Rational actors don’t support people who can destroy their own economy versus people that will continue policies that at least don’t hurt them.
They would have meddled with or without Trump in the mix, but not so sure they could have predicted his policies once in office...even now - how Trump will continue handle Russia remains to be seen just as it is with his approach to Kim Jong Un.
Trump is harmful to one idea of a Russian economic model, but not harmful to another idea of it.