You think they need people to go and impersonate being Mastodon nerds? The Russian govt has barely even engaged in the infowar over this, and clumsily when they do. They just post videos of drones hitting things most of the time. Russian politicians do not read books like The Dialectics of Dependency, or NATO's Secret Armies. They have focused on domestic affairs and building rapport with other countries in the global periphery. Their trade with Africa & China has skyrocketed. Propagandizing Westerners doesn't help them when we've officially launched sanctions against them. Instead they benefit from cross-linking global south countries to build financial networks outside Washington's reach, which can also launder trade thru to the west anyways. When I say the 1000 year age of Europe is over I mean the colonial top-down system that persists through financialization. is being permanently upended.