I expect there is an error or two somewhere in the information we present here. The link says Russia is offering ten thousand troops to Catalonia. Catalonia is a nation controlled by Spain that I've heard desires independence. Stimulating rebel groups is a normal tactic in international warfare. I imagine this is strongly appreciated if the rebel groups are given real independence and empowerment and supported in having good diplomatic relations with their neighbors (rather than turning into unending war, that might be taken advantage of by commercial interests). I don't imagine real independence is thought of as helping the purposes of powerful supporting nations very strongly, but I believe it could. I used to use a cryptocurrency trading bot that contained messaging foremost for Catalonia and other more normal rebellion imagery that left-wing folk in my region have supported. The trading bot was forked from an open source trading bot that went defunct. It gave thanks to the author of the defunct bot. In the fork, the api interfaces were made closed source, and the source repeatedly mutated, making back- and forward- porting of changes difficult. Use of the closed source backend requires payment. This is somewhat reasonable, because api interfaces are rote for anyone to implement. The author seems very friendly. The code is messy, possibly indicative of struggle, and the algorithms not complex last I looked, but quite varied. The project has a norm of rejecting backtesting additions for testing algorithms without trying them. This policy moves wealth and power into the hands of others than the users of the software. It's quite strange. It's also strange that the software has so many memes of community freedom, but has a closed source backend and rejects a class of changes without explanation. I support the indepence of communities, and expect I would support the independence of Catalonia. I do not support the takeover of the world with information warfare, of course.