Thnx. I suspect the Russian are the targets in this case because they have such a long history of opposing Western influence (especially political). Slavophiles are traditionally popular in Russia-and of course, the Western PTB hate them with a purple passion. I haven't talked with my Russian friends about it much, but the Slavophile movement still seems to animate popular Russian thought. I highly doubt the Russian regime is a pawn in the globalists' game-hence the anti-Putin and generally anti-Russia rhetoric I often hear/read in MSM (particularly right wing stuff). Even JBS buys into it (last I saw a few months ago).