More to your point: Avoiding world war 3, or the threat of it, is taken from
the same playbook Putin used in priming the West for his invasion. The West and
Ukraine supposedly thought: don’t do anything to antagonize Putin, he’ll use it
as a pretext for invasion. The invasion was already
And body bags are body bags. The Nationalism card depends on Putin’s ability to
invoke “The Great Patriotic War,” known in the West as WWII. This is the reason
Putin invoked “denatzification.” But turning an aggression on foreign soil into
defending the Father/motherland is a stretch even with
better and worse. So far the
> fascist / authoritarian resurgence has been the big beneficiary.
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> I forgot about the Adam Curtis film that refers to Surkov, because Curtis
> lost me at that point. There is a point at which one can no longer just
> wildly critique (although probably the locati
at refers to Surkov, because Curtis
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depending on who you are). I borrowed the title Almost Zero for the post
because of the abysmal state, not only of US society
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On 26/02/2022 06:24, Brian Holmes wrote:
Does anyone remember Vladislav Surkov, "managed democracy," "non-linear
war"?
Yes.
This was also included in a "documentary" by Adam Curtis called
'HyperNormalisation'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
"“HyperNormalisation” is
In 2014 Pomerantsev already wrote this:
"As the Kremlin faces down the West, it is indeed gambling that old
alliances like the EU and NATO mean less in the 21st century than the new
commercial ties it has established with nominally “Western” companies, such
as BP, Exxon, Mercedes, and BASF.
An interesting perspective but as a strategy against disinformation it failed
and it will have failed: everyone already knows Putin uses this model of hybrid
warfare. The obsession with “information “ is precisely what allowed this to
happen. If you know the tanks are moving in and you tell
Making their intelligence public did nothing except possibly tip Putin off to
its sources.
It was, in the technical register, actionable. And yet there was no action:
don’t provoke him by bringing in troops. Bringing in troops might have been the
very thing to deter him from acting though he
Does anyone remember Vladislav Surkov, "managed democracy," "non-linear
war"?
Sure, you must, he emerged into view in the West with the Ukraine war of
2014, with the disinformation and the little green men. He was an aesthete
and "political technologist," a PR guy and a reality TV fan, able in
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