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.
How many of those countries have a vested interest in altering American political discourse online though? Not Poland or Scandinavian countries. Maybe Germany for the lulz. The Russian shill farms in St. Petersburg are a fact. We know the Russians fuck with America. To what degree is open for debate.