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Strategic Disinformation
And in the subject of internal strategic disinformation, today is Russia Day. Here is a video with translation. Did I mention the Moskva has been under the waves for over a year now?
https://twitter.com/natalkakyiv/status/1668244832702156804?s=61&t=ygG_YhSDxXnxF8CrYkrG-w
Russia has a long history of using strategic disinformation inside and outside the country. This is how Joseph Stalin had the most powerful army before Operation Barbarossa, rinse repeat with this current war. This is also how we learn about Russian victories and inventions. This is where the old Star Trek joke that the Klingons invented everything and wrote Shakespearean plays comes from. When written in the 1960s, it was a commentary on the Cold War. This piece of trivia has been mostly forgotten.
During this war, we have seen this kind of disinformation as well. The latest involved the mobility hits on a company worth of Western vehicles. Oryx confirmed the destruction of one Leopard; the rest, mostly Bradley’s and one Leopard, were recovered and fixed. Most importantly, there were few casualties due to design features meant to protect both crew and passengers.
Russians have used this video from multiple angles and passed it as more hits. They are mining it for all it’s worth. Worst, they may have used AI to produce a second video of the defeat of western…