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It doesn't actually make sense for Russia to be running their Digital Propaganda agents from Russian IP addresses unless they're trying to make it easy for the likes of Meta and Twitter to just block them.
I mean, all you have to do is ponder for a few seconds on - "what would I do if I was a propagandist from an adversary nation trying to covertly influence citizens in other nations?". The immediate, obvious thing is "I wouldn't makes it stupidly obvious for the counter-intel people on the other side who owns them by hosting the fucking bots in my own country".
It makes sense for them to have Command & Control in Russia, but not the actual bots.
Well if the c&c or individual VPS of the people are down, the bots will run out of tasks eventually no matter where they are hosted from.
It's as likely the C&C for Russian Government Propaganda ops is in Yandex data centers as it is that NSA personnel are working from Amazon data centers.
https://www.nextgov.com/modernization/2024/09/nsas-secret-amazon-developed-cloud-environment-progressing-very-well/399611/
The NSA is using AWS?
Security services don't base their personnel or their user-facing machines in commercial data-centers.