Russia's power comes from the perception of their power.
I remember all the russian hi-tech videos and articles in the western media. The videos looked absolutely dumb, but yet it was being pushed as russian hi-tech.
They can't even arm their conscipts with basic body army yet the western media was running with stories where the Russians have created robot soldiers.
I have to wonder how much of this "propaganda assault" was russia funnelling money into the right pockets.
Another good example is how Russia was pushed as conservative values and christian values while the west was decadent. Then you see their army a collection of thieves and rapists, their people are mindless zombies, and when they had to fight they fled their nation to muslim majority countries like Turkey.
Meanwhile that decadent west doing the bare minimum were able to arm Ukraine bringing the Russian military to her knees.
Now compare the Russian coverage in the west to how Turkish military developments were covered in the west. A made up Russian robot is taken seriously. Turkish hardware was amazing in Syria, most articles put caveats that this wasn't a serious army so questions how it would do against a real one. Its amazing in libya and azerbaijan, same nay-sayers, then it dominates in Ukraine against the so called no2 army in the world Russia. The moment footage stops being released they all rush in to claim that its not capable anymore.
So obviously something dirty was going on concerning Russian coverage in the west.
