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“Hearts and Minds” lost to Cambridge Analytica + Russian Hybrid Warfare
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“Russia and the Menace of Unreality. How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare” By Peter Pomerantsev - September 9, 2014
“that initiated in late 2012, launched on WWW in March 2013”
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“Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America. The adventures of Russian agents like The Ghost of Marius the Giraffe, Gay Turtle, and Ass — exposed for the first time.” - Max Seddon. June 2, 2014 - first to describe the “Internet Research Agency” deployment agency in English / Western press.
The entire USA nation is unable to resist weaponized humor, surreal antics, absurd comedy that the Kremlin has created as information warfare. Since March 2013, all American people can do is mock American people under the influence, entirely incapable of mounting any type of intellectual defense or stance against the surreal comedy antics themselves. “On this spring day in 2013, he was wearing a white shirt and a leather jacket that was part Joy Division and part 1930s commissar. “My portfolio at the Kremlin and in government has included ideology, media, political parties, religion, modernization, innovation, foreign relations, and …”—here he pauses and smiles—“modern art.””. At every turn, American people / the USA population, doubles-down on more fiction in response to the fiction alternate reality games. People are unable to call out the Kremlin and Cambridge Analytica manipulation and describe it, only able to LOL LOL LOL at the absurd comedy, surreal humor that is the very basis of the egomania self-harm to the USA. “But the key thing was, that Surkov then let it be known that this was what he was doing, which meant that no one was sure what was real or fake. As one journalist put it: “It is a strategy of power that keeps any opposition constantly confused.” A ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable because it is undefinable. It is exactly what Surkov is alleged to have done in the Ukraine this year. In typical fashion, as the war began, Surkov published a short story about something he called non-linear war. A war where you never know what the enemy are really up to, or even who they are. The underlying aim, Surkov says, is not to win the war, but to use the conflict to create a constant state of destabilized perception, in order to manage and control.”
The 5,000 alternate reality screen games are so irresistible to USA population and leaders, that in early 2019 Russia openly gloated in the American Press that they had won hearts and minds, knowing that Americans could not resist or defend against the surreal antics, absurd comedy, dehumanization via random humor. “The illusion of choice is the most important illusion, the main trick of Western democracy especially…. The rejection of this illusion in favor of the reality that everything is predestined will allow society to reflect first on our vision of democratic development,” Surkov wrote. “Foreign politicians talk about Russia’s interference in elections and referendums around the world. In fact, the matter is even more serious: Russia interferes in your brains, we change your conscience, and there is nothing you can do about it.”