Okay so if that is the case then why aren't states in the west doing this overwhelmingly like how we used to/how authoritarian governments do? Again psyops can

Okay so if that is the case then why aren't states in the west doing this overwhelmingly like how we used to/how authoritarian governments do? Again psyops can only go so far and media is not inherently "owned" or anything of the sort, most of what you're saying you have to buy into a paranoid world view to rationalize instead of just looking at the truth of what civilized vs uncivilized governments do and don't do. Since it's highly unproductive to assume government in the west is incapable of cooperating, as if this was the case we would literally not have ideals in society followed and protected by a fundamental agreement we fall the constitution, since again why should we in the west follow rules when China/Russia is far worse than us.