It all boils down to the survival of the fittest. Yesterday Europe, today Russia and tomorrow China. No one can stop that
Americans in general (and the US mainstream media in their coverage) frame deaths emanating from the US (and it’s close allies) as collateral damage, killed terrorists, eliminated insurecctionists or mistakes or just even ignore it by omissions. From other countries that are not “allies” they are victims or murdered innocents or massacres or genocides etc… Just look at the favorable coverage of Madeleine Albrights death who said in her very own words that she owned to killing 500,000 Iraqi babies and children and said it was well worth it.
https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-ira...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallic_Wars
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bibracte
https://jacobin.com/2022/01/sanctions-financial-assets-afgha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debs_v._United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States
You can accuse Russia of anything you want in the current climate, and everyone will take you seriously regardless of evidence.
It's the kind of thing that seems inevitable with such events. I highly doubt Romulus and Remus were actually children raisedby wolves that founded Rome, but that's what the history books will say.
Also I only need to scrape as many WHOIS records as there are different networks out there. So for example for the IPv4 address space, there are much less networks as there are IPv4 addresses (2^32).
Also, most RIR's provide their WHOIS databases for download.
Therefore, "scraping" is not really the correct word, it's an hybrid approach, but mostly based on publicly available data from the five RIR's.