As opposed to the old “only the Great Powers have agency” gambit, which is actual Russian propaganda. Heaven forbid countries other than the US, Russian and China be even conceived of being able to take actions on their own.

There are good reasons to dislike Bambu, but that’s just not true. Looking at a Wireshark trace, Bambu Studio connects to three domains: e.bambulab.com (version check), api.bambulab.com (download updated slicer settings and translated error messages), and mqtt.bambulab.com. The last one I can’t tell exactly what it’s doing, since only the HTTP stuff got decrypted in the proxy.

Maybe the employee downloaded the installer from a sketchy russian hosting site?