This is because much of politics is currently driven by a global set of fascist/authoritarian govts and sponsored 'movements' pushing to destroy democracy. This is, IMO, back to the pre-cold war days, but stripped of all the "--isms" and ideologies.
It is now either self-determination for the people via democracy, or live under rulers like Putin, stripped of any cloking ideology. This is being strongly pushed/sponsored globally by Putin's govt; the Chinese are going about it differently with the 'Belt & Road' initiative and other exploitative agreements.
The grand experiment has been tried. It was thought that free trade exchanges and greater information flow from free nations would cause freedom, self-determination, & democracy to the former Communist nations. It did not. In trying to prove the thesis, the test proved the opposite, and enriched the authoritarian states.
Russia's ongoing assault on Ukraine since 24-Feb-2022, and the ongoing blatant war crimes including specific instructions to ignore civilian care[0], cluster munitions on civilian targets[1], or bombing a theater/shelter with "Children" written on the pavement outside [2], and it's support by ~70% of the deluded RUS population, show what can be expected from yielding to or appeasing authoritarianism.
It now really IS you are with us, or against us.
You are either in favor of democratic self-rule for all people, or you are against it.
This is war, and we are fighting against those who are happy to be war criminals.
It is important to take every measure, and "weaponizing" open source is among the least of the things that can be done to help.
[0] https://twitter.com/cnsnews/status/1504494016137555968?cxt=H...
[1] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-world/2022/03/11/the...
[2] https://www.npr.org/2022/03/17/1087164709/ukraine-mariupol-t...