All this is easily explainable, just like the increase in gas prices were a few months ago… it’s all down to Russia!
Russia pretends to be a big powerful fearsome country, but in reality has as small and struggling an economy as Italy or Spain, and nowhere near the military might it likes to portray. They might be able to contest border regions in Ukraine, but they can’t do what they really want which is to win a war against the big Western/NATO powers (although it does have nuclear weapons, but so does the West).
So what Russia does instead is get into the minds of Western society through things like social media. Fake news is spread into the West by Russia and promoted by West-hating Western outliers in our society who love to ‘shake-it-up’ and cause mither and unrest. It’s always some individual who’s had an important job somewhere like the WHO or some top medical university but has been shunned by the rest in their profession for being a dodgy ****, and then goes on a mission to spread lies (often after probably being ‘groomed’ by Russian fake news protagonists or by the Russian government itself!)
Russia gets to shake-up the West by not even having to go to war and we are left with these divisions in society because there are always stupid twats in our society who also hate our way of living who also want to shake things up, or stupid twats who get drawn in and believe the fake news.
They did it during the British EU Referendum, they did it during the US Presidency Elections, they’re doing it with Covid… and they’re succeeding with their goals!