I couldn’t put my finger on why I always wake up to a mountain of notifications, but rarely get many through the daytime hours. Started checking against timezones and — perhaps unsurprisingly — most of the responses I receive either shitting on the U.S. military or Ukraine come during the prime hours of GMT+2 to GMT+4 (i.e., eastern Russian / Moscow time).
I guess it kind of makes sense. Someone literally started writing Russian in response to me yesterday, lol.
There's quite a few countries in Europe who would be awake during USA late night time. Also many have plenty of fluent English speakers. Ironically, the places in Europe with fewer English speakers would be eastern Europe and Russia - it's generally not a big concern to learn English beyond Germany/Poland in continental Europe. That excludes Scandinavia, who all have excellent English, and who would also be wide awake while Americans are in bed.
Agreed.
That said, most other European countries do not have known troll/bot networks that are dedicated exclusively to shilling online forums. Not to mention, it would be a little weird for Western Europeans, who have historically one of the highest disapproval rates for Russia globally and fairly widespread support for Ukraine, to be making pro-Russia / anti-Ukraine comments.
Say what you will, but I think pro-Russia / anti-Ukraine content appearing predominately during Russian prime hours is a bit more than a coincidence, lol.