Disinformation is based in the Soviet military strategy of reflexive control, and its use arguably enabled Russia to annex Crimea. But Russian disinformation’s failure to accomplish in 2022 what it did in 2014 is due to one person, and he just might provide the key to defeating disinformation in another goal of the Russian government: dividing the United States.
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Resources/Mentioned in the Episode
New Yorker’s Politics & More Podcast: Igor Novikov on Standing His Ground in Ukraine
The Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
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