December 11, 2020
charging an employee of a Russian troll factory known as the “Internet Research Agency” with “criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States” (related to election influence). These cases notwithstanding, Putin is clearly winning Russia’s hybrid war against the U.S. because Americans don’t understand how they are being manipulated.
REPEATING: “Putin is clearly winning Russia’s hybrid war against the U.S. because Americans don’t understand how they are being manipulated.” - December 11, 2020
One of the main difficulties in countering malign Russian influence stems from divergent understandings of hybrid warfare. Russia considers hybrid warfare a form of conflict which includes strategic uses of economic, diplomatic, and influence operations, along with the use of military forces and espionage. By contrast, the U.S thinks of hybrid warfare as actions or tactics used before a conventional war. While the U.S. thinks it is managing pre-conflict aggression, Russia already considers itself in the midst of a strategic battle disguised as competitive aggression.
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Russia has won the Hybrid War, USA lost
Let’s go over that one more time:
“Putin is clearly winning Russia’s hybrid war against the U.S. because Americans don’t understand how they are being manipulated.” - December 11, 2020
You know what happened less than one month after that statement was made by an establishment conservative think-tank declaring that Americans don’t get the Internet and the mob mentality that Russia is inducing via hybrid warfare? On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. They sought to keep him in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of the president-elect Joe Biden. The attack was unsuccessful in preventing the certification of the election results.
USA doesn’t get how the “Internet Research Agency” and Surkov tactics work at all… from the linked article: “Russia has been waging a silent, “hybrid war” against the U.S. for years. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal: to influence American minds.” - December 11, 2020