Honestly I'd be so happy for the people there to get out from under Muscovite oppression. As a resource-rich country it could be truly great. Instead, a barbaric war of conquest.
More direct support. I think a large portion of the accounts on those three instances are bot/shill accounts run by the CCP and Kremlin. I suspect the CCP runs lemmygrad and lemmy.ml. Not sure about Hexbear.
To be clear, I generally don't have a problem with Marxists or communists. I think that's a facade used to cover up the propaganda. No intelligent communist or Marxist would support either the Kremlin or CCP at this point.
The fediverse is a fantastic place for propagandists. There's no central censor, absolutely no budget for countering propaganda.
Its an intentional move by whatever authoritarian piece of shit propagandist runs the instance and its bots/shills.
People have started calling them out and those instances have lost most credibility, so they're trying to bring legit instances down to their level and spread confusion.
Defederation from Hexbear, lemmygrad, and lemmy.ml would be a decent start, but since they have support from the Kremlin/CCP it'll probably turn into ongoing whack-a-mole.
Its part of it. There's also the better negotiating position, possibility of flanking the Kremlin's defenses, and forcing them to respond in a situation where Ukraine has the momentum and defensive stance.
Of course, a bodyguard will obviously be a master tactician with unrivaled logistics management capabilities. The Kremlin's forces will be thrilled when he shows up and starts giving orders.
In other words, Putin has almost nobody left he can actually trust, so he's putting incompetent people in charge of critical functions.
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
AI: "Hey look that pile of garbage looks like your dead dad lol"
We're all worried about robots taking over, but maybe they're just gonna be real dicks for no reason