Yeah, if it weren't for organizations adapting all their workflows and processes to involve as much LLM as possible it probably wouldn't be as costly to eventually switch back to minimizing its usage to specific, more useful stuff (like debugging)
I didn't say it was the sole reason, rather that it is measurable and clear as day (look at the difference in the number of voters between the last two US presidential elections). You don't need foreign actors to explain why democrat voters didn't bother to show up.
Trump's numbers were more or less constant for the last two election cycles, but look at the difference in voters between Biden and Harris in the same two elections.
I'm not a fan of the Russian government, but let's stick to the facts. The biggest reason why the democrats lost is because they didn't give most people a reason to care to vote, they didn't listen to their more popular base on things like healthcare and a certain genocide as that could push away their corporate donors, and they promised continuity with an impopular administration that had the bad luck of governing during most of the economic hardship of the pandemic. Still, they could have done a decent campaign and ran on more popular policy.
Obviously powerful countries do try to influence elections to a degree, but the idea that Trump only won because of Russian interference has been disproven already.
The prosecution of pro Palestine speech in places like Germany isn't a fiction. The support for neocolonialism in places like France, which to this day benefits from treating former colonies like shit is also not fiction. And most of the EU is conveniently supported US foreign policy until it came to bite them in the ass with Greenland (and still generally support the US everywhere else).
Some European countries are very nice to live in, but internationally they're not the good guys. They supported bombing Yugoslavia and Libya and now they pretend to hold space for nuance in the illegal invasion of Iran. They also supported kidnapping Maduro in Venezuela and they clearly don't give a shit about Cuba being subjected to a genocidal blockade.
This isn't to say Russia is better, Russia is another country with an oligarchy and they tend to be the bad guys all the time as well, the difference is that Russia does good some of the time, even if for the wrong reasons, like recently violating the US blockade of Cuba to bring them oil. I doubt they do it because they care about Cuban people, but the result is still a good one for Cubans, and it's a whole lot more than what the EU has ever done.
How do you realistically prevent corporate donors from being a thing when the whole government is compromised and they won't legislate their privileges and bribes away?
Because their corporate donors want regular workers to be afraid and not get any ideas about redistributing wealth, unionizing, etc