I would agree with that. I think from the Russian world view, there's sort of an outside world, which is this drive towards multipolarity and not having the liberal west dominate the international system and having spheres of influence. There's also a domestic internal component with that: breaking down consensus for this kind of movement to collective liberalism, whether it's NATO, support for transnational co-operative solutions or respect for human rights and liberal values. Any time they can poke holes in that, either by exacerbating partisanship or political polarization or by targeting vulnerable communities, they will do it.
I want to emphasize this. The goal is not to make Russia look better. It really is to try to show what they think are contradictions and weak points in our own messaging and our own societal debates, and take that from being a strength to somehow being a weakness of our own domestic institutions.