1/ A NEW KIND OF WAR: The handbook, primarily based on Russian sources, was published by @NATO_DefCollege and brilliantly written by @KeirGiles who is adept at relaying complex matter simply, succinctly and comprehensively.
Below is his intro to “warfighting.”
2/ CHEAP TRICKS: Aside from the usual tyrannical blather about intellectual superiority, the bottom line: information warfare is cheap.
3/ WAR AND PEACE: The information warfare is waged during peacetime and is ongoing.
4/ ALL OF THE ABOVE: This “hybrid war” is all encompassing and traditional war lines blurred.
Psyops relayed by any memes necessary: smartphones, media, celebs, trolls, bots, leaders(!)...psych pressure, destruction of enemy computers...global networks.
5/ LACK OF CONSENSUS: While Western nations are still trying to define cyber warfare, the Russians are going all in.
6/ MIND AND MATTER: Russian information warfare is aimed at altering the minds of its target victims as well as the technical systems of entire countries... using any means available, during peacetime and war.
7/ FUNDAMENTALS OF DEMOCRACY: “Our doctrines do not allow us to do a lot of this stuff till the fighting basically starts.”
But Russia considers itself to be in a state of war... lies and denial embedded into warfighting to erode the spirit of the target nation’s population.
8/ IW: Like a tarantula hawk wasp paralyzing its prey, Russia uses information warfare to “incapacitate a state as much as possible before that state even knows a conflict has started.”
New tech based on 100-year-old thinking.
And like the spider, citizens lose consciousness.
9/ WAKE UP AMERICA: “...a massive dedicated impact on the consciousness of citizens...within a matter of days... deprived of actual sovereignty without the state’s territory being seized.”
IW’s aim: regime change... “through destroying the organs of govt.”
Well done TrumPutin.
10/ PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT: The Russian military mind works backwards from the selected objective... IW (information warfare) is used to direct the people of the victim country to support the aggressor acting against their own interests... choosing actions advantageous to Russia.
11/ AGITATION AS WARFARE: What if our decision-making is being agitated toward a specific outcome... what if.
12/ POLLUTED INFORMATION: Lying is the message.
Parroting falsehoods lends authority to complete and utter bullsh*t, which is a boon for the aggressor in warfighting.
Everything we’ve ever stood for is at stake, and yet, MSM parrots away.
13/ SUBVERSION AND DESTABILIZATION: “Trusted media sources” spread propaganda—wittingly or unwittingly—validating Russian narratives.
History is revised and propagandized as part of foreign policy, an undermining of truth and democratic principles, while IW victim-nations assist
14/ ACTIVE MEASURES:
* Influencing policies of another govt
* Undermiming confidence in its leaders and institutions
* Disrupting relations between other nations
* Discrediting and weakening governmental and nongovernmental opponents
Sound familiar.
15/ DISMISS, DISTORT, DISTRACT, DISMAY: Our freedom of expression and human rights are being targeted by surgical disinformation attacks and resulting in a demoralized public.
16/ UNPREPARED FOR ACTIVE DEFENSE: As mass media stirs up chaos, IW front groups go unchecked...the infiltration both foreign and domestic. Author Giles, when citing Russian sources, notes they refer to Western aggression. Clearly, in post-modern times the mirror is double-sided.
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“I think a whole lot more ‘American’ social media influencers who take foreign money to mindfuck their fellow citizens should be exposed. Nothing lower than people who sell their country out for cash. Traitors.”—@WesClarkjr
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“For over a decade, Tim Pool has been infiltrating progressive movements, inciting hatred, violence, and chaos, acting as a stenographer for foreign powers intent on destroying America. While it’s nice to see his pockets empty with this new indictment, how long until we see accountability for these bad actors who conspired with foreign governments to destroy our country? This is not a one-time thing. This is not ‘Company-1’ was deceived. This is Donald Trump not asking where the briefcases full of money came from when men with strong Russian accents purchased his condos in cash.”—High Fidelity for Bette Dangerous
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“There still seems to be a lack of awareness that disinformation campaigns are driven by paid influencers and fake journalists who produce bullshit content to promote Putin’s bullshit narratives.”—me on Twitter
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“Until such time as we shut off the flow of dirty money from fascists and criminals, the influencers will continue to poison us.”—High Fidelity for Bette Dangerous
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NOT JUST A PLATFORM: Are Tech Tycoons Facing the Music?
After a Brazilian court orders a suspension of X, and the arrest of Telegram's Pavel Durov, my latest report in @Byline_Media reveals how global pressures on tech titans may signal a moment to press 'reset'.
The year is 2024, and humanity is sick. Billionaires who own social media platforms have encouraged a steady drip of high-level toxins into the minds of their users. Hiding behind the antiquated political cloak of ‘libertarianism’, these shadily funded tech tycoons are generals in an information war marching the world toward authoritarianism.
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It’s no coincidence that their rise to absolute power occurred in the same era as the global decline of democratic rule.
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UNMUSKED: How Elon Musk is Using X to Poison our Democracy
Heidi Siegmund Cuda reveals in @Byline_Media how Elon Musk has used Twitter to launch an assault on the most foundational parts of of our democratic systems
“Swimming in a vast cesspool of the raw data of fascism, Elon Musk's AI was trained to become a fascist.”—Dr. Michael MacKay
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The video was, well, weird — creepy even by X/Twitter standards.
Speaking directly to the camera in a cult-like manner and gesticulating robotically, the CEO of X/Twitter Linda Yaccarino offered ‘A Message to X Users’ on how the company filed a complaint against organizations that boycott advertising on the platform due to its pro-Nazi problem.
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15th in a series about the network of US criminals accelerating global fascism
“They have the capacity to fund innovations that will bring us down if we don’t stop them.”—Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy In Chains, on RadPod Ep19
“It’s astonishing, but we’ve enabled this billionaire class to develop — with so many right-wing billionaires who are totally hostile to democratic forms of rule.”—Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy In Chains, on RadPod Ep19.
“There is no more Republican party of the kind that once existed… what the Koch network people are banking on is that none of these Republicans will walk away from their elected office, knowing that they’re gonna face this buzzsaw — it’s like a pincher, there’s the donor money on the top and the aroused Fox News base on the bottom, and they will get squeezed if they step out of line — if they admit that climate change exists, if they say, ‘We need more taxes to do the things the American people need done.’ If they cooperate with Democrats in any way, they’re out. And that is the dynamic that frankly created nut cases like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Madison Cawthorn, because they’ve gerrymandered to such a degree that you can only be replaced by somebody who is more far right on the spectrum. And the terrible, terrible thing is the moral failure for these Republican office holders who would not tell people what was happening.”—Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy In Chains, on RadPod Ep19
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