Read as written, it seems like the parent is saying that things like this (felony for providing a child anything but whitelisted books) destabilize the society they occur in, and bad national actors exploit and encourage that instability. Not that Russia directly induced this law.

I just don't get the link to these idiotic policies put into place in places like Florida. Is Russia using Facebook or something to make people there believe dumb shit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_warfare "Russian interference in foreign elections Russian interference in foreign elections, most notably the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, has been described as information warfare."

Hey putin, you can downvote me all you want!