Not in agreement about ALL mass as there are some who are just plain crazy when they attack; hurt feelings, schizophrenia. Re other - yes. See history of US Wealth investing at the fall of the USSR. Read Wiki on Stone (Nixon's plotter?), Manafort. Google 'Trump's Ties to Russia', follow strings.
Chances are very high that you and I are only aware of a fraction of all the strains and how far they all go back. Putin took advantage of the same holes in our system the GOP did. They're all complicit.
Trump fell in '87; others long before. One needs to find out who in the RNC kept Stone in their pocket; kept Black, Manafort & Stone's torturer's team on their payroll. Putin. He does not operate alone. Once was a talking head, much like Trump.
They're all Traitors to Democracy.
One of the most interesting and terrible things I've read was a report called: The Torturer's Lobby by Pamela Brogan. (1992)
I'm not familiar. I am down to educate myself with it but I'm cutting my time thin as it is until this mess is stopped. Cruelty never brings greatness. Empathy & kindness brings greatness.
The question you have to ask is what makes a person want to go shoot and kill other people? And that is never seeing the potential of finding one's happiness in life. And the GOP has been slowly ripping away our happiness for a very long time. By passing oppressive laws on to us all.