It’s my own hunch, but I think a fairly solid one, that the Kremlin did not want to Make America Great Again. To cut through the waffle, the conspiracy theories, the Mueller indictments, the accusations of collusion and the Facebook ads paid for in roubles, and indeed even the unanswerable question of whether any of this stuff even made any difference, this is the nub of Donald Trump’s Russia problem. Why, Donald, did Vladimir Putin want you to win? What was in it for him?

Russian efforts with Brexit have always been less clear. Certainly, there were Russian bots and Russian hackers doing pro-Brexity things, but it seems to have been a rather lacklustre operation all round, certainly compared with efforts made elsewhere. What are