The new far right “deployed the Kremlin’s Orwellian ‘firehose’ model of propaganda: gaslight reality, turn it inside out, call the peaceful people the Nazis & fascists, call freedom the enemy of peace, bombard innocent people w/ those messages a million 1/ eand.co/is-this-world-…
… times a day on Facebook and Twitter. Carpet-bomb them with the inversion of reality — War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength — until their weary minds, baffled, finally gave out…and gave in.” 2/
Another must read by @umairh. 3/
“The attacks began. The big ones. All the disinformation and propaganda that was by now being poured across the West like a great toxic oil slick had a point. And now Russia smiled, and flicked a match.” 4/
“Russia interfered in an American Presidential Election. That is a major, major attack. It is an act of war for a sovereign nation to do something like that, to try to literally install a puppet leader. To try and unravel a democracy.” 5/
“It is an attack on a society’s critical systems, just like, for example, attacking its water supply or food supply or dropping a bomb on its power systems — because democracy, of course, is a critical system to us in the West.” 6/
“And yet nothing happened. Nothing much has still happened. And I’m leaving aside the obvious — which is that Fox News and such far right organizations are all obvious means of Russian “firehose” propaganda, too.” 7/
“Can you imagine what should have happened? Having seen that our literally leadership and democracies were under serious and critical attack, we should have, in the West, done all this then — all the sanctions on the oligarchs, all the cutting of business ties, …” 8/
… all the elimination of Russian money and influence from our societies. Had we done that then, Ukraine — and the rest of us — might not be in this position now.” 9/
“Don’t believe me? Don’t remember? Let’s review the leaked Kremlin memo.” 10/
“‘It is acutely necessary to use all possible force to facilitate [Trump’s] election to the post of US president…This would help bring about Russia’s favoured ‘theoretical political scenario.’” 11/
“‘Trump win ‘will definitely lead to the destabilisation of the US’s sociopolitical system’ and see hidden discontent burst into the open, [the leaked memo] predicts.”
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13/ “After the meeting, according to a separate leaked document, Putin issued a decree setting up a new and secret interdepartmental commission. Its urgent task was to realise the goals set out in the “special part” of document No 32–04 \ vd.”
14/ “A matter of weeks after the security council meeting, GRU hackers raided the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and subsequently released thousands of private emails in an attempt to hurt Clinton’s election campaign.”
15/ Please read the whole piece. It is crucial. Thanks.
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