RE: Chaos as strategy - Peter Pomerantsev has some interesting observations on the Russian strategy of 'decomposition' as developed and perfected in East Germany at the end of the Cold War. Russia has for decades used chaos-as-strategy to their advantage in their psyops and cyberops, since they realise that it's much easier to break thin…
RE: Chaos as strategy - Peter Pomerantsev has some interesting observations on the Russian strategy of 'decomposition' as developed and perfected in East Germany at the end of the Cold War. Russia has for decades used chaos-as-strategy to their advantage in their psyops and cyberops, since they realise that it's much easier to break things than mend them. But as you note, they may have thrown one too many stones in their Crystal Palace.
RE: Chaos as strategy - Peter Pomerantsev has some interesting observations on the Russian strategy of 'decomposition' as developed and perfected in East Germany at the end of the Cold War. Russia has for decades used chaos-as-strategy to their advantage in their psyops and cyberops, since they realise that it's much easier to break things than mend them. But as you note, they may have thrown one too many stones in their Crystal Palace.
Agreed Maggie, on all accounts. On a related note, you may enjoy the following as well: https://www.hstoday.us/featured/how-ukrainian-narrative-identity-dominates-the-war-of-influence/