states to be isolated in the world and the west to be fractured. they certainly want to be released from u.s. sanctions, which they hate. they would like to decide what happens in syria. russia has resented for years, for decades what they see as the meddling of the u.s. state department in their affairs. i'm sure they'd like to hit the state department and render the u.s. state department inert. they want their seized u.s. properties back, the ones that obama took away from them in response to them hacking our election. and speaking of them hacking our election, they presumably would like continued ability to do stuff like that, continued intelligen intelligence operability to mess with us at will. the unnerving thing about that list, of all of those things, russia has at least made progress towards getting since