Peter Pomerantsev - The Atlantic - September 9, 2014: "How Russia Is Revolutionizing Information Warfare": "Ultimately, many people in Russia and around the world understand that Russian political parties are hollow and Russian news outlets are churning out fantasies. But insisting on the lie, the Kremlin intimidates others by showing that it is in control of defining ‘reality.’ This is why it’s so important for Moscow to do away with truth. If nothing is true, then anything is possible. We are left with the sense that we don’t know what Putin will do next— that he’s unpredictable and thus dangerous. We’re rendered stunned, spun, and flummoxed by the Kremlin’s weaponization of absurdity and unreality"
Peter Pomerantsev The Atlantic September 9, 2014 How Russia Is Revolutionizing Information Warfare RUSSIA UKRAINE A A Font size + Print . Email . Share . Recommend . Tweet Share At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration . Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations that then translate into political action. Take Novorossiya , the name Vladimir Putin has given to the huge wedge of southeastern Ukraine he might, or might not, consider annexing. The term is plucked from tsarist history, when it represented a different geographical spa