The part you’re missing is that they don’t tell you how they did the attribution, and there are good reasons for this. You’re assuming that you know what they know.
Frequently the evidence is that they saw a connection from <IP from within country> or that the document had some Cyrillic in it which is the internet version of "Russia woz 'ere" totally legit. Conveniently it's always whichever country is the media boogeyman of the week
No, source IP address country is never the basis for attribution, and contrarian lay people always assume that’s how it works for some reason. It isn’t, at all.
Speaking with confidence is not enough to be taken seriously on this topic saturated with marketing, politics and mythomaniacs. Especially when a quick Google search is enough to find plenty of such attributions:
List would go on and on, and this is only for Russia.
And yes I'm aware those sources are easily discarded as "non serious enough", as expected from the top results of a search engine I guess. Do your part and provide us with better sources.
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