It not just the Russians. The Chinese need us to buy their junk and the oligarchs need us to buy their petro and software products. The government and business wonks need us to continue working for slave wages. The Russians fancy themselves information peddlers, for their part.
And don’t forget the politicians with power broker requirements for monetary manipulation only the rich might understand, enabled by one thing only: Voting. Only problem is stupidity – the opposite of guess what? (woke.)