Your leaders cant stop it from happening and any attempt to stop it would make free speech situation much worst then attempts to punish hate speech everyone complains about.
Because Russian trolls boil down to speech - speech and could and should have been countered by local speech (which is much better funded anyway). Speech that is not much unlike America paying various political parties around the world (also for sides I liked and agreed with). Yes, purposeful conflict creating is annoying and problem, but it does not seem like Russians caused those divisions in the first place.
It mostly all seem to be an attempt to blame Russia for internal problems.
> It mostly all seem to be an attempt to blame Russia for internal problems.
Agreed. The vast majority of the time I see Russia brought up it's being used by mainstream Democrats to dismiss criticism from both the right and the left. Basically anyone that's not a staunch neoliberal gets accused of being a Russian or a Russian puppet.
They're using it as a scapegoat and it seems to be working.
Because Russian trolls boil down to speech - speech and could and should have been countered by local speech (which is much better funded anyway). Speech that is not much unlike America paying various political parties around the world (also for sides I liked and agreed with). Yes, purposeful conflict creating is annoying and problem, but it does not seem like Russians caused those divisions in the first place.
It mostly all seem to be an attempt to blame Russia for internal problems.