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Not many people know that Hillary Clinton 'meddled' in the 2011 Russian election...

http://time.com/4422723/putin-russia-hillary-clinton/

I feel like all American black ops are well intentioned, but often end up coming back to bite us.

That's pretty thin. The fact that Putin said she did, doesn't mean she did. We're on much more solid ground saying that Americans got Yeltsin elected in 1996. Of course that result ended up being very good for Putin...

It’s not all that much thinner than “$100k in FB ads spent _after the election_ altered the results of the election”.

Sure, but I don't believe that fairy tale either.

I'm referring to things like putting the American fleet in the Black Sea, getting involved in the Ukraine, getting involved in Syria...

Ukraine and Syria: not Russia. And they are places where Russia is doing a lot of meddling, to say the least.

"If we let them have what they want and do not intervene, they will just stop." -- England and France, a few years before WWII.

I'm pretty sure that's an unwise assumption to make (for either party - but especially when at least one is ruled by a despot).