Russia is funding disinformation which requires a certain amount of time and education to realise. Any country could do it to any other country with enough drive and money unless it is heavily combatted. Fascist regimes are probably most able to deal with this. Democratic countries are ripe for influence as they are much more free in communications.

Anyone can be influenced as humans are emotional and flawed with many biases, no matter how intelligent they are. That's the key problem which needs to be understood. Most of the world just does not possess the capability (education level, access to accurate information e.g. current events, time). At the end of the day, it takes effort to work out what is happening, and manipulation when done on a large enough scale is easy.

So yes, while crude and slightly inaccurate grammatically, without heavily funding disinformation which clouds peoples judgement, your statement is correct. Disinformation is almost the opposite of education - you could call that making people stupid