Russia uses overt Russian propaganda and covert information operations, supported by kinetic ‘direct actions’, to exert influence and gain a strategic advantage over the West.
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Year: 2024
Author: Ryszard M. Machnikowski, University of Lodz, Poland
ISSN: 2736-5816
DOI: 10.53121/ELFPP25
This paper deals with the problem of Russia’s information–psychological warfare on the strategic level. While the attention of the West in general is focused on tactics used by Russian side to foment so-called “disinformation” and attempts to counteract it by correcting or denying Russian lies, Western experts and commentators frequently lose strategic and ultimate goals of all these actions, which are to to destroy the West or at least to deny Western influence on the World’s matters, and in this way ultimately prevail in the second Cold War.