That long run has been running a long time. They’ve scored a few hits, especially at universities, but universities are growing obsolete. All they do is indoctrinate snowflakes, while the adults go to community college. But decisively undermining the US is not happening.
I don’t understand your comment?
Russia doesn’t target universities. The Chinese do and have major donors as financial leverage to make sure university depts tow a communist government-friendly line.
Russia does however target media and internet including U.S. veterans and troops, to spread disinformation meant to capitalize on disillusionment with Obama/Bush and America in general and promote false pro-Putin, post-Soviet narrative of both history and current totally ungrounded in reality and meant to diminish and rewrite America’s role in things like World War II, and spread anti-Israel hate.
Russia’s problems include everything they mock the West for but worse: Muslims make up 20% of their population and growing. The country has mounting poverty esp outside the big cities, extreme corruption, and political repression of speech and press. The country is practically a police state now as March 2018 elections approach. Almost all the money is in the hands of a grotesque circus of elitist oligarchs married to Western bank accounts...and Putin has pursued a Neo-con foreign policy with weak oil dependent economy.