This unhinged NYT article and the cheering of it by the usual establishment mavens perfectly illustrates both the idiocy and utility of blaming US social strife on a few dozen Russians bots in St. Petersburg.

US elites are great! Anger in the US is due to Kremlin manipulation:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/18/us/womens-march-russia-trump.html?smid=tw-share