https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-29-2024
"On Wednesday the nonprofit, nonpartisan Institute for the Study of War
published a long essay explaining that Russia’s only strategy for success in
Ukraine is to win the disinformation war in which it is engaged. While the
piece by Nataliya Bugayova and Frederick W. Kagan, with Katryna Stepanenko,
focused on Russia’s war against Ukraine, the point it makes about Russia’s
information operation against Western countries applies more widely.
The authors note that the countries allied behind Ukraine dwarf Russia, with
relative gross domestic products of $63 trillion and $1.9 trillion,
respectively, while those countries allied with Russia are not mobilizing to
help Russian president Vladimir Putin. Russia cannot defeat Ukraine or the
West, they write, if the West mobilizes its resources.
This means that the strategy that matters most for the Kremlin is not the
military strategy, but rather the spread of disinformation that causes the West
to back away and allow Russia to win. That disinformation operation echoes the
Russian practice of getting a population to believe in a false reality so that
voters will cast their ballots for the party of oligarchs. In this case, in
addition to seeding the idea that Ukraine cannot win and that the Russian
invasion was justified, the Kremlin is exploiting divisions already roiling
U.S. politics."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
