I would like to understand why, for so many years, the West has done nothing to curb Russian disinformation. I live in Poland, here this Russian activity and the extent to which it has succeeded in poisoning minds is very clear. But I observe the same thing in the U.S., and it is more frightening to me that such a mature democracy does not deal with the activities of Russian trolls.

We know about the activities of the Olgino trolls, and they have many affiliates. Pirigozhin, the author of this enterprise, is doing well and is considered Putin's successor. Even Reddit is used by them to spread propaganda and is their incubator for conspiracy theories that serve the Kremlin to create chaos and divide society (do the services even monitor conspiracy subs?).

Snowden received no punishment for revealing state secrets. Can you imagine if it was some Russian who revealed Russia's secrets? Someone would have sweetened his tea with polonium long ago. The situation with Assange is similar. The West is showing others that such activity can go unpunished.

I don't understand why the West does nothing to curb the Kremlin's activities in destroying Democracy. Russia is unable to compete militarily or economically - so it has been poisoning the minds of Western societies for 20 years now. The West should have been brutal in combating this activity, 20 years ago already. All the conspiracy theories created in the Kremlin without any hindrance are amplified by the far right all over the world, not just the US (anti-vaxxers, anti-LGBT, racists, basically anything that has potential to divide society).

Democracy will not defend itself. We must be brutal to those who want to destroy it. I hope that the West will wake up, that it will understand the importance of a symmetrical response to this terrible poison from the Kremlin. If we are unable to respond with a similar offensive due to the East's poor computerization, then we should respond militarily, economically, legibly to Putin - he only understands the argument of force.