Russian Hybrid Warfare & Ukraine: Propaganda, cyberwarfare & hybrid war methods

Often we think of war and peace as binary states - one is either at war or at peace.

But history is full of examples of the line between those two states being blurred, and in a modern world of nuclear weapons and globalised economic and military competition, that competitive state between war and peace has grown particularly prominent.

When Russia overtook Crimea in 2014 with its "little green men" the world got a high visibility view of what a hybrid war, combining information warfare, unconventional methods and conventional military force might look like. Today, I want to give an overview of hybrid war methods, their potential, and potential defences against them.

We sort of started it (creation of US Special Forces and Psyop being part of the command), wrote the manual, and employ it all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Army_Special_Forces

This is like us complaining about some other country using a digital surveillance technique we invented and started using 10 years earlier. “How dare the Chinese do that, only we are allowed to do that!”

https://fortune.com/2022/11/20/tiktok-surveillance-tool-china-senators-biden-admin-security-agreement-ban/ We had about 170 various collection tools we were using on the US public when Snowden made his revelations, but our government seems very concerned about our rights when it’s the Chinese and Tik Tok.

If the US government were actually in the business of protecting the US Constitution and the rights it espouses (including the implied right to privacy), then an argument can be made. But since we are the biggest culprits at this game and the ones that started it all, we shouldn’t be crying about others using it on us.

the Ukrainian - russia border

was a soviet fictitious marxist

give away to begin with

after the bolshevik bubble busted

reality starts to take back over

fascist nwo liberals still know nothing about it

Excellent explanation by a Ukrainian soldier here. Russian propaganda and political influence precede the more brutal steps.

This is how your country can be defeated
[A concise, clear, illustrated explanation of Russian hybrid warfare.]
Operator Starsky
https://youtu.be/ahLzW8jb1TA

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