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
I agree. Russian population does not have the Apple iPhone / Apple iPad / Samsung Android / etc addictions of USA. Russia has much more domestic control of media systems. So it isn’t possible to wage exactly same kind of war that the “Internet Research Agency” and Cambridge Analytica worked together on in late 2012 / early 2013.
Since year 2022 the IRA / CA content has all been fed into large language models as training material off the Internet. So Russia/Kremlin no longer controls this, and beyond the original 5,000 patterns the LLM systems can come up with any number of new variations. The only option is to teach “media ecology” and reason thinking to every person over say age 11 in society, a massive education campaign on how all people can distinguish fiction vs. non-fiction. Along the lines of Carl Sagan’s 1995 book.
People, all the people, have to abandon their addiction to mocking, mockery of out-groups. That is incredibly difficult, I strongly fear the USA will not recover and will continue to fall into more and more anti-human self-destructive anti-science behaviors, as defined by Carl Sagan in 1995 as it has since every year since 2013 when the “Putin Media Invasion” started.
I don’t see that. Joe Rogan said just last month that he would rather go to Russian than Canada. I do not see people responding with discussion about what is bad about Russia, morality of good and bad. I see people just LOL LOL LOL LMFAO “Joe Rogan dumb” LOL, inside the Kremlin 5,000+ simulacra patterns of meme-speak. Calling people dumb and stupid is just a cult of out-group hate, it isn’t actually teaching and educating. We need people to truly stop the mockery and focus on reality / truth / science, and morality of good. Not favoring “bad” like they are now.
98% of Russians have a smartphone. Some social media is blocked, but NYT is not. VPNs available. West blocks Russian media more than other way around. What separates Russia from west is not access to opposing narratives for those that seek it. It is tolerance for divisive misinformation. Democracy has morphed into craving the latter.
More people would realize that provoking a war on Russia is neither profitable or moral. Belief that CIA is truthful and wants everyone to be happy, and so “values based supremacy” justifies diminishing others with any and all lies necessary to keep you committed to the weapons and oil profits available from perpetual operation.
That is about divisiveness political issues, immigration, trans, vaccines that he somehow would feel a need to speak against in Canada, and fakes that he would have a harsher reaction than the welcome Tucker Carlson got for speaking BS there to a semi friendly audience. He wouldn’t just go to UFC event to enjoy the event, he somehow needs to grandstand in Canada, where he wouldn’t need to Grandstand against Russia policies. Political hacks, despite your wish for better critical reasoning skills, will have profit opportunity in disinforming their less acute adherents.
Yes, but they don’t have the blind faith of everything in meme decoration. They don’t have the graphic artists and talent like Hollywood / commercial arts. They weren’t raised with Disneyland meme theme park and the level of content that Americans have.
We should be educating Russia, who is provoking a war? We should be giving lessons every day, all able-bodied Americans should be on social media and having video-conferences to Russians and teach them lessons from Malala and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about good vs. bad. Instead of constantly entertaining themselves with superficial sports and kitten photographs on Reddit and Bluesky, people should be using the powerful Internet to educate and teach.
… " vaccines that he somehow would feel a need to speak against "
Yha, I know the somehow, the Internet Research Agency since year 2013 in Saint Petersburg. “A significant portion of the online discourse about vaccines may be generated by malicious actors with a range of hidden agendas,” said David Broniatowski from George Washington University. The researchers reviewed more than 250 tweets about vaccination from accounts linked to the St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA). In February the agency was named in a US indictment over alleged election meddling. The IRA tweets used polarising language and linked vaccination to controversial statements about race, class and government legitimacy, the researchers said. One tweet casting doubt on vaccines that was cited in the study read: “Did you know there was secret government database of # Vaccine-damaged child? # VaccinateUS”. Another that argued for vaccinations said: “# VaccinateUS You can’t fix stupidity. Let them die from measles, and I’m for # vaccination!”
I personally telephoned the Pentagon and reported this pattern of insincere bullshit on Reddit in 2015, it was not reported in the press until August 2018. Surkov Student’s and Cambridge Analytica have divised 5,000 patterns of this total mockery absurd and amusing idea patterns that are so irresistible Americans downplay and go LOL LOL at every opportunity. The number of people who have lost their hearts and minds to anti-science anti-reason thinking is massive. Joe Rogan is only one obvious example, and you can’t see any of his fans speak up and go: “you know, that was covered in August 2018 in all the world press, even Fox News”
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“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 … “Vladimir Putin’s Adviser Tells Americans: ‘Russia Interferes in Your Brains, We Change Your Conscience’. The rejection of this illusion in favor of the reality that everything is predestined will allow society to reflect first on our vision of democratic development,” Surkov wrote. “Foreign politicians talk about Russia’s interference in elections and referendums around the world. In fact, the matter is even more serious: Russia interferes in your brains, we change your conscience, and there is nothing you can do about it.” - February 12, 2019
Cambridge Analytica is a western for profit divisiveness political engine. It’s very hard to know how much right wing western politics vs IRA is responsible for right wing divisiness/success.
You are suggesting Russia is responsible for Ukraine war, instead of being provoked. That is exactly where Russians have the correct view on such misinformation. It’s like asking Canadians to understand what assholes they have been to the US for past 50 years disinformation, and how they should accept their destruction.
I know Russia started the war. There were meetings all throughout 2013 and launched in February 2014 as “hot war”. The IRA went online in March 2013, preparing people to downplay it. Trump says Ukraine ‘should have never started’ war in Ukraine Trump made the remark while deriding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose country was invaded by Russia in February 2022.
It’s called “winning the hearts and minds of the enemy of Russia”.
I give Vlad Surkov all the true credit. You can see my hashtags all about giving Surkov credit:
https://mastodon.social/tags/SurkovWonSuperDeep “Surkov Won Super Deep”
https://mastodon.social/tags/SurkovWon “Surkov Won”
https://mastodon.social/tags/SurkovSiege “Surkov Siege”
https://mastodon.social/tags/RussiaWonSurkovWon “Russia Won, Surkov Won”
April 29, 2019 … https://old.reddit.com/r/WhiteHouseSurkovMedia/ “White House Surkov Media”
If you study Vlad Surkov’s fiction storytelling and match it up … Under the pen name Dubovitsky, Surkov has published a number of works of science fiction, including the “gangsta fiction” novel Okolonolya (“Near Zero”). Surkov initially denied that he was the author of Okolonolya and wrote a preface to the novel stating, “The author of this novel is an unoriginal, Hamlet-obsessed hack.” Surkov was subsequently discovered to be, in fact, the author with James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, you see Surkov is the only player in the world capable of pulling off this deep level of monomyth storytelling patterns. Vlad Surkov is 100 years past Edward Bernays / NYC.
www.LazyWake.com - “Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, p.56, February 28, 1966
War and Peace in the Global Village is a 1968 book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore. It contains a collage of images and text that illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man. Marshall McLuhan used James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake as a major inspiration for this study of war throughout history as an indicator as to how war may be conducted in the future. — see also !JamesJoyce@lemm.ee
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"Joyce is, in the Wake, making his own Altamira cave drawings of the entire history of the human mind, in terms of its basic gestures and postures during all the phases of human culture and technology. As his title indicates, he saw that the wake of human progress can disappear again into the night of sacral or auditory man. The Finn cycle of tribal institutions can return in the electric age, but if again, then let’s make it a wake or awake or both. Joyce could see no advantage in our remaining locked up in each cultural cycle as in a trance or dream. He discovered the means of living simultaneously in all cultural modes while quite conscious.” — Marshall McLuhan, from the book “The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects” by media analyst Marshall McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore, and coordinated by Jerome Agel. It was published in March 1967
It’s not possible to blame Russia in 2013 for war started in 2014. The big Ukraine events in 2013-2014, are getting screwed by EU/IMF on a trade deal with EU. While there were mild Russian sanctions during that process, it involved a good alternative trade/support deal from Russia that could legitimately be sold as a win for Ukraine. The Euromaidan BS response was definitely a US sponsored movement. Ending in protests, blag flag mass shooting of protests, and then coup over Yanukovych. All of that is direct US sponsorship. Direct fomenting of secessionism/Crimea liberation by treating Odessa Massacre like Trump gets to treat Jan 6 2021 insurrection, persecutory laws and pension suspensions.
Even if you need to seek a 2013 Russia planning connection to eventual war, that planning could still have been defensive, and the overwhelming US finger and foot prints on Ukraine has to overwhelm any such connections.
I didn’t just Fall (Tim F) off the Turnip Truck… You think you can just make statements to me and I blindly accept them as commands?
“This fusion of despotism and postmodernism, in which no truth is certain, is reflected in the craze among the Russian elite for neuro-linguistic programming and Eriksonian hypnosis: types of subliminal manipulation based largely on confusing your opponent, first developed in the US in the 1960s. There are countless NLP and Eriksonian training centres in Moscow, with every wannabe power-wielder shelling out thousands of dollars to learn how to be the next master manipulator. Newly translated postmodernist texts give philosophical weight to the Surkovian power model. François Lyotard, the French theoretician of postmodernism, began to be translated in Russia only towards the end of the 1990s, at exactly the time Surkov joined the government. The author of Almost Zero loves to invoke such Lyotardian concepts as the breakdown of grand cultural narratives and the fragmentation of truth: ideas that still sound quite fresh in Russia.” — October 20, year 2011. Peter Pomerantsev
Not a word of your reply addresses Marshall McLuhan’s 1968 book, Vlad Surkov’s published fiction writings, James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake level of monomyth deconstruction. I think you don’t grasp at all what McLuhan was saying in “War and Peace in the Global Village” in 1968, how a University of Toronto NATO Canada professor was spelling out Vlad Surkov’s year 2011 methods way back in 1968. “manipulation based largely on confusing your opponent, first developed in the US in the 1960s. There” … !EchoLand@lemm.ee
So far, you seem inside the Surkovian simulacra patterns of responses. As if you do not understand the Kremlin’s 2013 war Against Reality
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true." – published 1951 - want a song to go along with that year 1951 quote? … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKwsiXOAVvk
Have you studied monomyth cults? Joseph Campbell’s “Comparative Mythology”? Bill Moyers, former White House director? Middle East religion patterns of “alternate reality”?
This is the Kremlin misunderstanding the Arab Spring December 2009 to December 2010. I was THERE on Facebook. I married a woman from the Arab Spring and had my wedding in December 2010 in North Africa. The Kremlin + Cambridge Analytica in March 2013 mind-fucked the whole earth because they don’t grasp Finnegans Wake! Please FORGET WHAT YOU KNOW - Chicago music rock band, Styx!
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“If literate people are reluctant to consider how the ground rules of their world have been laid down by phonetic literacy, they might find some comfort in the quite hilarious description of Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White.” - page 26, year 1968 “War and Peace in the Global Village”, NATO member Canada, University of Toronto, Marshall McLuhan