Adversary countries also have a deeply wrong view of a population which views dissent as a sign of weakness instead of a process which grants strength. What they want is misleading. They would want to use it even if it was in fact, good for the "victim" country.

It brings to mind declassified documents that revealed how the KGB basically pissed money away trying to destabilize the US economy by engaging in large irrational trades. All they really did was make money for those who had the fortune to be on the opposite side of the trades.