It’s not only stupidity, it’s pinpoint targeted propaganda and fear-mongering at less keeeping-up-with-the-times people. It’s basically foreign countries heavy-handedly meddling in internal country matters to sow chaos and gain relative advantage.

People will always be the weak point of any system, scapegoating them won’t fix anything, there has to be a better protection from foregin (or internal) un-democratic interferences.