[MangoToupe]

That doesn't really say much about the specific behavior of using a russian keyboard as a signal.

[antonymoose]

It is a fail-fast strategy to avoid internal prosecution for accidental attacks on fellow citizens.

[0manrho]

Well yeah, because that's not what the person they were replying to was asking about. They were asking a "when" question of sorts, tangential to the root topic, not a why.