Startling allegations that the Base’s leader is a Russian spy lead to suggestions that the Kremlin is playing the ‘long game’

A former Pentagon contractor works with secretive sections of US special forces, then ups and moves to Russia. He gets married, radicalizes and starts popping up on Telegram channels as the leader of a neo-Nazi terrorist group recruiting Americans.

https://archive.ph/29a4O

  • ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
    1·
    17 hours ago

    We really need to take an offensive against Russia. Information warfare is still warfare, and Russia has been attacking us for years.

    • Realitätsverlust@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      You can’t take an offensive against the information war because that would quickly result in authoritarian practices where certain kinds of information are suppressed - you do not want to go there at all.

      Social media killed media literacy, that’s the issue. We need to rebuild that.