It would be, that's why I think Russians won't be looking for a direct confrontation.
They need something that's big enough to cause some panic, but not not enough for the big countries to start anything. Something they can blame someone else for.
Or go for a non NATO country like Moldova.
I can speculate it could be to frame this war as a war against nato, or to get a reason for full scale mobilization, or to get a reason to use nuclear weapons.
That may sound cheer worthy, but considering they very obviously can't handle even 1 front, attacking another country would have to be for a different reason, a more problematic reason.
That's true, but I don't see it working.
All these comedians/talk show hosts have been doing this for decades and that did nothing. Nothing. The opposite actually, normalizing abhorrent things by trivializing them for (a lot of times) cheap laughs.
What is going on is not a media matter for multi-millionaires to joke about on the billionaire tv networks.
The right don't care. Every minimal pressure they can exert will at minimal, at very minimal make people self censor themselves just a little bit more. That is what they want and they are succeeding marvellously.
Your are right, it's better to get drunk and go into weird adolescent hyperbole about stuff we don't understand and one up each other until we pass out.