Putins information war: number of web sites or fake social media accounts does not imply lots of people are reading them. In any case, Trump and Hillary wanted to win - all the strategies of the Russians would have been open to Hillary and Trump, too. Why should Putin be better able to employ them?

War - everybody has some interest to pursue, sure. That is nothing new, though.

Europe on its own: what risk do you mean?

"congratulating the dog on catching the car"

Becoming president seems more useful than a car is for a dog, though.

Edit: only now read the BBC link. That's even more ridiculous than "The Russians did it". Now it is Macedonian teenagers who rigged the US election? Come on...