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RUSSIA’S WAR IS ALSO COGNITIVE
>To achieve more, Putin needs others to do less.
>Russia is using cognitive warfare—a form of warfare that focuses on influencing the opponent’s reasoning, decisions, and actions—to secure strategic objectives that are unattainable through its physical capabilities alone.
>The ultimate target of Russian cognitive warfare is the opponent’s will to act. To achieve more, Russia needs others to do less. Russia may very well lose if the West leans in to support Ukraine. The combined economies of NATO countries, non-NATO European Union states, and the United States’ Asian allies dwarf Russia’s, among other things. The Russian goal has therefore been to have the United States reason its way to the conclusion that Russia prevailing in Ukraine is inevitable—or even in accord with U.S interests—and that Washington should stay on the sidelines.
>Russia uses all platforms that transmit narratives—media, conferences, international frameworks, diplomatic channels, individuals—as tools of its cognitive warfare.
>Russia’s cognitive warfare involves the recycling of Soviet messaging strategies and implements. Flaunting its conventional power—its nuclear weapons, its fleet, and its missile systems—is a tactic that the Soviets frequently used in their strategic messaging against the West.
>The Kremlin intensified its external cognitive warfare efforts following a series of largely peaceful protests against corrupt regimes in former Soviet states, including Georgia’s 2003 Rose Revolution and Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution. Russia’s neighbors’ striving toward more transparent, Western-style governance threatened Russia’s goal to control those states, and Putin perceived this development as a threat to his regime.
Article in Foreign Policy is written by someone working for ISW kek. Prime seethe & cope.
https://archive.md/NCNnH