‘In 2016, Vladimir Putin sought to interfere in our elections… [but] he didn’t just decide in 2016 to take such a bold step. He worked up to it, undermining an array of U.S. interests slowly but surely over eight years of the previous administration’s misguided approach to Russia. Under President Obama, the U.S.-Russia relationship seemed to be defined by two constants: Putin’s growing assertiveness in foreign meddling, and the administration’s failure to confront it.’