If the Russians tried to influence the US elections, they were pretty inept.   Hillary Clinton  and her supporters did far more damage to her campaign than any alien could have done.    Plus Hillary, the preferred successor of the feckless Obama, would have provided continuing mirth as the Russians continued to defy her  and figuratively spit in her face like they did to Obama.    Putin isn't happy with Trump blasting his client Assad's forces and essentially setting up an autonomous Kurd region in Syria.