Rudy Giuliani met with a Russian military intelligence office FFS
A big DUH to the article. It was not like any of those Republicans were/are in any doubt about who the big boss was., when they kept making incognito trips to Vienna and not so incognito trips to Moscow on the 4th of July.
A country is weak when it is divided. Republicans have chosen a path where they don't try to win the majority, they try to divide the majority. Set group against group. They try to ensure that only their group can vote freely. Set partisan obstacles to voting, suppress votes in large cities, ensure working people have to lose work days to be allowed to vote, removing ballot drop location, disallowing student ids to stop students voting, reduce voting locations to create 10 hour lines in Democrat districts, block voting by mail, block early voting, make it as difficult for people with jobs and families to vote, groups that tend to favor Democrats and as easy for wealthy and old to vote.
This is the core problem. As long as you can win an election with a tiny minority in a system rigged to favor that minority, the US is vulnerable to takeover.
Don't kid yourself that Republicans will defend America, they will sell it out for power, faster than they abort their mistresses baby. All those voter suppression tricks the Republicans attempted, they're now trying to put into State law.
Did Russia hack Texas paperless voting machines? No. They might have written the software to do it, but Republicans do the rigging there, just as they did the voter suppression, and the final attempt to simply overturn the election using the Republican Supreme Clown Possy.
And they'll make the USA vulnerable to takeover, and Putin will simply try again with the next one.