Agreed. Why would they be doing that? All I can think is that psychological operations always have been part of war (and conflicts short of war), and the obvio

Agreed. Why would they be doing that? All I can think is that psychological operations always have been part of war (and conflicts short of war), and the obvious place to conduct them in 2015 is not on leaflets dropped from airplanes, but on the Internet. I don't think it's conspiratorial to expect that nations are developing capabilities and training.