It is additionally also possible that a democracy with more or less independent media is much more vulnerable than a dictatorship with state-controlled media. The democracies in the world better wise up quickly and figure out a way to become resilient against this.
Russia has perfected the art of sowing division and faux outrage. We’ve done it to other countries so we deserve it in some sense.
It’s possible that Russia is better at some things than the U.S.