It’s pretty sad when Russa has moral leadership and we don’t. Who would have thought a former head of the KGB would have more dignity and respect than the POTUS? We sure have sunk to new lows.
While the Russian leadership may be energizing the morality of the people in these cases, I think they're doing so more as a matter of pragmatism than virtue.
The Soviet intelligence apparatus spent decades deliberately trying to undermine traditional morality and promote decadence in the west precisely because they knew it would rot the states from within, and they know enough to nip such movements in the bud. They're not so much promoting a healthy diet as they are simply preventing the ingestion of poison.