Russia has crumbled in the 90s and now is just starting to wake up.
If I have to measure threat and I am an American, I would ask: How on earth China has developed this enormous economical advantage over all of the world?
Who financed this growth? Who benefited the most? And why, after living through the Cold War, we are heading in a similar direction?
Their boss even famously got killed this year [1].
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
2: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/14/europe/russia-yevgeny-pri...
3: https://www.severreal.org/a/priznannyy-smi-inoagentom-zhurna...
4: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-...
5: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/world/europe/russia-troll...
6: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/15/594062887/...
Practically all the listed sources are part of the complex of disinformation.
On the grand scale of things, the troll farms of Russians are a joke.
USA has more than 900 official military bases outside the territory of the country. Can you imagine the logistics? The agents? The infrastructure supporting this global operation? The budgets?
Indeed.
> And please, the leader in information technology and psychology warfare is known to the whole world.
I am not arguing against USA doing psyops. I am simply stating that Russia is, too. You keep downplaying it.
> On the grand scale of things, the troll farms of Russians are a joke.
I disagree. See the linked sources as to why.
> Can you imagine the logistics?
How is that relevant here?
It hasn't.
> Who financed this growth?
900 million Chinese people and Deng Xiaoping.
> Who benefited the most?
More or less everyone. But not anymore.