The Blue Moon Army is already Russian. They'd have to do no extra work for the first game, although having the Black Hole puppeting conflict might be a problem.
It'll be fine. By the time the game's released, Black Hole puppeting the conflict will have already moved from "pants on fire false alt-right conspiracy theory" to "...and here's why that's a good thing".
It should be the perfect time to release a war game. There is tens(hundreds?) of billions of free marketing going on right now.
If they rebranded all the enemy troops as Russians I think most Switch owners would be falling over themselves to buy multiple copies.
The Blue Moon Army is already Russian. They'd have to do no extra work for the first game, although having the Black Hole puppeting conflict might be a problem.
Blue Moon and Olaf are old USSR, Black Hole are new Russia under Putin Man Bad
It'll be fine. By the time the game's released, Black Hole puppeting the conflict will have already moved from "pants on fire false alt-right conspiracy theory" to "...and here's why that's a good thing".