Comment by mullingitover

Russian national strategy for a long time[0] has been to sow domestic strife/fuel sectarianism by an available means, and politicizing vaccine hesitancy has been a wildly successful lever for them. They were definitely doing this even before Covid[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/1952/