This would have been a Muh Russian Bots/Shills story 5 years ago. I never hear Muh Russia anymore despite the entire establishment seething over one of their corruption-outlet tentacle nations being at war with them. It gives me an impression of the degree by which the general public BTFO'd certain incredibly expensive propaganda campaigns in the 2016 period (although I think this warrants noting that the same groups of people failed to reject other less expensive campaigns from the same period, such as a prominent hate campaign where users of many large social media websites and groups weren't allowed to be racist/sexist/homophobic, putting a stopper on all expressions of hatred that weren't directed at the target group- muslims and islam at the time. It turns the target group into a pressure release valve for other social frustrations. It is a tactic/prediction that Orwell covers with brevity in the first chapter or two of 1984).

Hiccups and vulnerabilities aside, the amount of cushioning on public awareness that TPTB have burned away in these last ten years is wild. Everyone seems to be aware of shit on a higher level now. It wasn't like that even just 15 years ago. Things that propagandists and politicians used to flat out deny are pieces of common knowledge that serve as devices in a debate today. The debate boils down to "who is targeted/who should be targeted" and it is a foreboding echo of history; somebody really is the target, somebody really does lose, and the result is violence on a scale that will mindbreak generations and lay seeds that ensure the cycle goes on forever. Everybody is trying to wrestle control of at least some aspect of the apparatus of our destruction in order to point it at someone else and it will go on forever. The last people standing will point the apparatus at themselves in a hereditary state of madness and fire it.