The Kyiv Submit simply revealed: “A knockout study by the Institute for the Study of War (“ISW”), just out March 27, is a must read for all the leadership of the West, and particularly, the US Administration and Congress. [PDF]
Vladimir Lenin’s well-known assertion, that “a lie told often enough becomes the truth” has been the mainstay of Russia’s profitable program of lies and deception since 1917. This highly effective quote encapsulates the facility of dishonesty and manipulation to sway public opinion. And this stratagem was amplified by Stalin, the KGB and all of the Russian rulers since.
Putin has added the idea of “reflexive control” to this technique, which places out false bases for determination making to the West in order that they freely decide pre-determined by Putin and the Russian regime.
“Russia uses perception manipulation to advance its interests globally”, states the ISW research. “Information operations have been a key part of the Kremlin’s toolkit for decades.”
Most of the lies and deceptions have been debunked by the Ukrainian military within the present warfare of aggression by Russia – eg: the infallibility of the Russian army (over 400,000 lifeless and wounded), the energy of its Black Sea fleet (27 warships and 1 submarine misplaced to a rustic with out a navy), the prevalence of its hypersonic missiles (destroyed by the Patriot methods), and the accuracy of their precision weapons (non-existent).
However the West should not fall for the continued lies and deceptions of the “reflexive control” propaganda packages now massively deployed by the Putin regime, which is ready out intimately within the hooked up research artfully entitled “Denying Russia’s Only Strategy for Success”.
The phrases used are completely different, however the ideas are the identical: disinformation and social engineering on large scale.
Bob Onyschuk is President and CEO of Onyschuk Strategic Advisors and the Founding President of the Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce.
