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The russian troll factories are pretty well documented by now [2,3,4,5,6]. You seem to deliberately downplay this.

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/...

These are your sources? And please, the leader in information technology and psychology warfare is known to the whole world.

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?

> These are your sources?

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?

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