Posted on 04/02/2024 6:03:05 PM PDT by Mariner
The US must be aware of and avoid Russian disinformation operations at all costs if it wants to maintain its Western values and help Ukraine win the war, conflict analysts argue.
"Basic facts are in question daily as the Kremlin floods the Western debate with its narratives," analysts at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said in a March 27 report.
The analysts said that "the notion that the war is unwinnable because of Russia's dominance is a Russian information operation, which gives us a glimpse of the Kremlin's real strategy and only real hope of success."
For years, Russia has manipulated information enough to cause other countries to perceive Russia as a dominant force in Europe and, more recently, that it is winning in Ukraine.
Because Russia needs to sideline Ukraine's Western partners, the US in particular, the ISW analysts wrote, "the Russian strategy that matters most, therefore, is not Moscow's warfighting strategy, but rather the Kremlin's strategy to cause us to see the world as it wishes us to see it and make decisions in that Kremlin-generated alternative reality that will allow Russia to win in the real world."
ISW asserts that the Kremlin is pushing the narrative that "supporting Ukraine is a distraction from 'real' US problems" and is simply not worth the effort, and it's having an effect. Conflict fatigue has become a serious issue in the West, especially the US as support funding for Ukraine's war effort has been held up and unable to pass in Congress for months.
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I take it she’s another Isabell from Newsweek. Perhaps it is, just writing under a different name. 🤣
“Basic facts are in question daily as the Kremlin floods the Western debate with its narratives,”
And it’s hip deep here on FR. Half a dozen or so obvious Russian “influencers”, another dozen simple fellow travelers, and a schoolbus load of adolescent sh[]tposters. What must it be like on major social media? Probable enough to gag a maggot.
Great, for some reason a Newsboys song lyric popped to mind.
“Isabelle is a belly dancer
With a kleptomaniac’s restraint
Tried stealing Helena’s hand basket, made a fast getaway,
But McQueen she ain’t
At the courtroom Joshua judges her ruthlessly
On account of Ruth walking out on him
In the Big House Isabelle is a-telling all
To the chaplin who’s become her friend
She says,
I don’t know why you care
I don’t know what’s up there
I don’t know where or how
Just take me to your leader now
Take me to your leader now”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=6IUQOlMG0lA
There, now it can earworm someone else.
I'm surprised they didn't take the opportunity to blame Trump or a MAGA supporter of hacking the White House website & charge Trump for that too.
It can't be that they are starting to realize the more they charge Trump the larger the support rises for him. 🤣
You’ll notice any article on the Debt and financial future, Ukraine is never mentioned. Fox had a long segment. They go right to Social Security and Medicare. Rinse and repeat.
Weird. Because FR is an irrelevant online forum. We had some glory days in 2000s. But not much in the last 20 years. So it will be a waste of time and resources for the Kremlin to spread their propaganda here on FR.
Russia is EVERYWHERE!!!!!
But it’s funny, nothing that Russia claims ever seems to make it into the Western media, even when after they’re proven true, as in nearly all cases.
Yeah, it’s absolutely weird.
But everything from the Biden misadministration has been weird.
*Cough Sam Brinton etc cough*
Business Week and Yahoo… amazing fonts of ABSOLUTE TRUTH!
/yes, major league sarcasm
“West believes controlling the “narrative” is the same as reality. Russkies believe controlling reality is the same as controlling reality.”
So you believe ABC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN?
What are the chances they are all correct? They are all Ukraine cheerleaders.
I began avoiding Ukraine threads because it was impossible to determine what was true and what was bullhockey.
I have talked to some men who visited Ukraine on mission trips and also visited neighboring countries. They paint a dire picture for the civilians, but didn’t have anything to say about the tides of the war.
The Biden administration is extraordinarily weak and incompetent, They have not effectively mobilized domestic or international support for Ukraine. They have not compromised and conciliated with domestic opponents nor have they been persuasive with international allies.
The only data of pure value is that sourced pre 2022.
Specifically, population difference.
It is not possible that data is propaganda.
“West believes controlling the “narrative” is the same as reality. Russkies believe controlling reality is the same as controlling reality.”
Sorry, meant to tell you that YOU NAILED IT.
“So you believe ABC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN?”
They don’t, of course.
That is exactly what somebody who was playing their own “intelligence game” would say.
Newsboys (sometimes stylised as newsboys) are a Christian rock band founded in 1985 in Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia, by Peter Furler and George Perdikis. Now based in Nashville, Tennessee, the band has released 17 studio albums, 6 of which have been certified gold. As of 2023, the band consists of lead vocalist Michael Tait (formerly of DC Talk and Tait), drummer and percussionist Duncan Phillips, keyboardist Jeff Frankenstein, electric guitarist Jody Davis, and bassist Adam Agee (formerly of Stellar Kart and Audio Adrenaline). In addition to performing music, the band has appeared in the films God's Not Dead, God's Not Dead 2, and God's Not Dead: A Light In Darkness.
Never would have guessed any of that from that song. 🤣
ISW, the Institute for the Study of War, was founded and is run by Kimberly Kagan.
Kimberly Kagan is married to Frederick Kagan, a senior fellow specializing in military affairs at the American Enterprise Institute, one of the bigger neocon/neoliberal think tanks.
Frederick Kagan is the brother of Robert Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute.
Robert Kagan was the founder of PNAC, the Project for a New American Century, which tried to talk Bill Clinton into invading Iraq in 1998 to enact regime change. Clinton didn’t take that bait, but George W Bush did. Bush filled his administration with PNAC alumni, which included VP Dick Cheney.
Robert Kagan is married to Victoria Nuland, the behind the scenes Harpy who has been up to her eyeballs in getting America involved in a series of undeclared wars. Her involvment with Ukraine goes back the coups d’etat known as the Orange Revolution and the Maidan Uprising, where Vicky Nuland chose Ukraine’s presidents for them.
At some future date when political historians exam these times, they will marvel at how the Kagan-Nuland family ran America’s foreign policy, destablized the world, and ignited wars all over the globe.
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