Its like Hillary walking into a working class kitchen for the first time.
They’ve been shielded from even critical support of China and other AES for so long they literally, not figuratively, literally cannot process that people exist that have beliefs that aren’t Reddit Approved. They immediately assume it’s bots or wumao. Human beings can’t possibly hold these beliefs, so they must be Oriental hordes or actual robots.
10,000 GPUs cost less than one tank and are sufficient for the job of running LLMs for the task. It’s ridiculous to propose that Russia is NOT investing in bot+troll farms. They are cheap and effective.
Did you somehow miss the memo that the (not actually real) turing test is routinely defeated as of like ten years ago?? Today a single GPU is quite capable of producing human-looking prose much faster than any human can. It takes comically little resources to flood a platform with bogus speech for a nation state.