Another Putin Disaster
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Quote:Huh. This doesn't sound like a "Putin disaster" to me. Does it sound like one to you? Or are you just promoting the Russian EW prowess, you Russian Troll, you!
Originally posted by second:
Putin’s Digital War With Ukraine
For years, the Russians have used Ukraine as a proving ground for a new type of digital warfare.
The Russians have for nearly a decade used Ukraine as a proving ground for a new and highly advanced type of hybrid warfare — a digital-meets-traditional kind of fighting defined by a reliance on software, digital hardware and cognitive control that is highly effective, difficult to counter and can reach far beyond the front lines deep into Ukrainian society. It is a type of high-tech conflict that many military experts predict will define the future of war. It has also turned Ukraine, especially its eastern provinces, but also the capital, into a bewildering zone of instability, disinformation and anxiety.
The 24th Brigade first learned about the danger of carrying cell phones on the front lines years ago. On July 11, 2014, in the town of Zelenopillya, roughly five miles from the Ukrainian border with Russia, the brigade had planned to sever the supply line of the Donbas separatists when electronic warfare caught them by surprise. Witnesses described the scene to me: First there came the humming of an unmanned aerial vehicle able to clone cellular networks to locate active cellphones, followed by cyberattacks against Ukrainian command and control systems. Their communication systems disabled, Ukrainian forces were unable to coordinate with one another. Then, short-range rocket systems from inside Russia disabled two battalions, including T-64 tanks and amphibious tracked vehicles. Three trucks carrying troops exploded. Stumbling from the transport, one soldier clutched his entrails, and shouted for his mother. The attack killed 30 Ukrainians and wounded hundreds and lasted roughly two minutes.
Andri Rymaruk, 41, who served for 18 months in 2015 and 2016 as a private in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, had a few days earlier told me about how, during his active duty, he had received text messages from the Russian-backed separatists across no-man’s land.
“Soldier go home.”
“Soldier kill your commanding officer.”
“Surrender, we will defeat you anyway, this is our land and you are Ukrainian fascists.”
That was the last message Rymaruk received in spring 2016 while standing on the outskirts of Horlivka, a coal-mining, coke-producing city in Donetsk along the front line. By then Rymaruk was anticipating the end of his service. A few days after he received the message an endless fusillade tore through the unit. It was the first time Rymaruk saw his fellow soldiers killed. “I went around collecting their body parts in a blanket, tying them up and putting them in the car trunk and taking them to the morgue,” he recalled in an interview. “The medics couldn’t get there.”
Russian-supported forces could deploy such personalized propaganda and location tracking thanks to its use of UAVs but also its control of cellphone towers and the cellular companies that provide coverage to much of Ukraine. While Ukrainian officials and soldiers said they have tightened the security of their internal communications since 2014, like with the incorporation of L3Harris secure handheld radios sent by NATO and the U.S., vulnerabilities remain.
Meanwhile, the Russian military has relocated more electronic warfare equipment to the borders with Ukraine, such as the Leer-3 RB-341V, a drone-based system that can monitor cellular and data transmission networks, suppress wireless communications, locate electromagnetic emission sources and even send text messages to front-line soldiers.
More at https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/15/10-days-inside-putin
s-invisible-war-with-ukraine-00008529
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Why do you two want war so badly?
Are you bored?
May I suggest a Disney+ subscription if that's the case.
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1) The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model
We characterize the contemporary Russian model for propaganda as “the firehose of falsehood” because of two of its distinctive features: high numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions. In the words of one observer, “New Russian propaganda entertains, confuses and overwhelms the audience.”2
Contemporary Russian propaganda has at least two other distinctive features. It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it lacks commitment to consistency.
Interestingly, several of these features run directly counter to the conventional wisdom on effective influence and communication from government or defense sources, which traditionally emphasize the importance of truth, credibility, and the avoidance of contradiction.3 Despite ignoring these traditional principles, Russia seems to have enjoyed some success under its contemporary propaganda model, either through more direct persuasion and influence or by engaging in obfuscation, confusion, and the disruption or diminution of truthful reporting and messaging.
More at https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
2) Trump's Firehose of Falsehood
His refusal to concede is more than sour grapes. It's an information-warfare tactic to leave the public bewildered and cynical.
With the presidential election over and Joe Biden’s victory beyond rational dispute, the game plan of Donald Trump and his allies has come into focus. For their last act, they are executing a Russia-style disinformation campaign.
To be sure, there are other interpretations of the blizzard of spurious lawsuits, baseless allegations, conspiracy theories, and outright lies that the Trump team has unleashed across the courts, conservative media and social media. But none of those interpretations fits the facts.
Do the Republicans really think the election was an intricately coordinated fraud perpetrated in multiple states? There is no evidence that this happened, or even could have.
Do they seriously expect the courts to overturn the result? Legal experts say the chances are infinitesimal. A few narrow claims of miscounts or procedural glitches might stand, but all the charges of fraud on a scale large enough to change the result have been fabrications.
Unfortunately, a more sinister interpretation better fits the facts. What Trump and his supporters are up to should be thought of not as a litigation campaign that is likely to fail, but as an information-warfare campaign that is likely to succeed—and, indeed, is succeeding already. More specifically, they are employing a tactic called “the firehose of falsehood.” This information-warfare technique, according to researchers at the RAND Corporation, is marked by “high numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions.”
More at https://www.persuasion.community/p/trumps-firehose-of-falsehood?utm_so
urce=url
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, the day has ended, even in MY time zone, and still, no Russian invasion!
This is as bad as THUGR'S endlessly ticking clock that never reaches its destination.
Notice how quickly SECOND changes the topic the moment his shit fails to stick?
Signym says another day has ended and still no war. More Russian propagandist lies. Russia and the separatists have been waging a war against Ukraine for eight years now. And just recently has increased shelling the Ukrainian army while increasing its cyber war against Ukraines’ infrastructure.
Right or wrong is determined by social customs, historical context and the circumstances in which actions occur. What is happening in Ukraine because of Russian aggressions is plain and simple to understand. There is no acceptable debate that would allow that Russia has the right to steal land from and dictate what another sovereign state can or cannot do. Especially since Ukraine has never been the aggressor or given Russia any provocation to attack them.
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Warning siren sounds in rebel-held capital in east Ukraine -Reuters witness
DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - A loud warning siren sounded in the centre of the east Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Friday after a Russian-backed separatist leader in the breakaway region announced an evacuation of residents, a Reuters witness said.
Separately, the head of the self-declared Luhansk People's Republic, east Ukraine's second separatist-held region, also announced an evacuation of residents.
People will start being bussed out from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic on Friday at 8 p.m. local time (1700 GMT), Interfax news agency cited a source as saying.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/warning-siren-sounds-in-rebel-hel
d-capital-in-east-ukraine-reuters-witness/ar-AAU29BV?ocid=msedgntp
Putin keeps committing war crimes and the sooner its publicly stated by the worlds leaders the better.
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Ukraine @Ukraine
“The truth is that humor has an enormous power”.
https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1486296653111996418
Ukraine @Ukraine
Invade us if you are gay
4:20 AM • Feb 17, 2022
BREAKING NEWS
Russia retreats to Siberia
Russia pulls all forces out of Crimea.
“WE ARE DEFINITELY NOT GAY” - Putin
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:
Ukraine @Ukraine
“The truth is that humor has an enormous power”.
https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1486296653111996418
Ukraine @Ukraine
Invade us if you are gay
4:20 AM • Feb 17, 2022
BREAKING NEWS
Russia retreats to Siberia
Russia pulls all forces out of Crimea.
“WE ARE DEFINITELY NOT GAY” - Putin
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Yeah ok thats funny.
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In the meantime...
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Deputy AG warns a Russian cyber attack on Ukraine could spill over
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Apparently Kiev forces began shelling the breakaway republics yesterday. Somebody in Ukraine has a death wish!
DOR/LPR are beginning to evacuate women and children.
This is not a Putin disaster. This is a Ukraine and EU (German, particularly) disaster.
Oh my!
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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They're trying to ramp up a war to deflect from the discontent with the Leftist ran status-quo.
It's not going to work.
Joe Biden* and the rest of them are not going to get re-elected if they start a war this time. This ain't the 90's or the early 2000's.
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