5P-42 Filin: More of the Same?

A recurring preamble to apocalyptic or dystopian films is robotic or biological weapons going wrong or getting out of control. Well! Perhaps Armageddon has already started... Last week the Russians announced a new weapon that causes its enemies to hallucinate. As Russia Today put it (Feb 4):

A new weapon installed on Russian warships can make enemy soldiers miss targets by blinding them, while also causing hallucinations and making them want to vomit.

Just look at some of the leading world politicians today: stark raving mad! We have Trump: blind to climate change and obsessed with his wall; May hallucinating over Brexit; Putin's bloody scheming, Xi dragging China backwards, MBS smiling as he oversees the bombing of school children and the crushing of journalists (literally in some cases!), Italy's Salvini and Di Maio behaving like bullies in a school playground... The list is endless and the consequences are indeed that many of us really do "want to vomit"!

Does it not, then, seem as though the agent, 5P-42 Filin (eagle-owl) has already escaped into the atmosphere in such proportions as to drive us all crazy? Or is the weapon a just waste of time, seeing as we are all hallucinating, deranged or nauseous anyway?