NATO Leaders Prepare Response to Russia's Information Warfare
July 14, 2014
Nato has been shaken by the effectiveness of Russia's online information war during the Ukraine conflict and is now looking for ways to counter the country's aggressive propaganda campaigns , the UK ambassador [Adam Thomson] to the world's largest military alliance has said. . . .
"The summit will take decisions on Nato's long-term posture,"
Mr Thomson said. "Some of that will be military steps, some of it will
be steps to address these new tactics [military planning?], which we are thinking about hard
right now."
"How do you counter Russian propaganda? How do we do better on cyber defence? How do we improve our intelligence collaboration so we have better situational awareness if you've got unbadged soldiers operating on alliance territory?"
Pro-Nato think-tanks, military organisations linked to member states and Nato itself have been the target of internet trolling campaigns, traditional media disinformation and cyber attacks
designed to bolster domestic support and attack foreign opponents, in
traditional media and online. Senior Nato officials have told the FT
they are in little doubt that such activities are orchestrated on a large scale by the Russian government. . . .
"Nato [needs] to be able to pop the Russian myths that are propagated about Nato itself... it needs to be able to look after its own equity in this, if you like," he said.
SOURCE - Atlantic Council - here.
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COMMENT
Love the 'trolling campaigns' they're referring to. Notice the arrogance?
What a way to dismiss everybody that doesn't fall into line with US-EU expansionist objectives, eh?
People see through what's going on.
Mind you, this isn't about Russia; this is about US-NATO and their objectives and their propaganda.
The accusation is just something they've pulled out of their hats, because they're masters of manipulating the public; they're professional, practised liars. Like lawyers and used car salesmen are.
This is political spin delivered by the unscrupulous; they're vilifying Russia -- who has been cast as 'enemy' and an 'aggressive' one at that (but no Russian action ... it's US soldiers on European soil).
Need to do this because they
must create an enemy to sell their predetermined commitment to piling billions of dollars from the public purse to the NATO war chsest, to fund the corporate snatch happening in Eastern Europe.
It's necessary to create a boogey man to:
(a) justify their expansion and aggression; and
(b) to obtain public acceptance of their objectives, by whatever means it takes.
NO, LET'S GET NAOM CHOMSKY
TO POP THE US-NATO MYTH
NO, LET'S GET NAOM CHOMSKY
TO POP THE US-NATO MYTH
Another beauty:
"Nato [needs] to be able to pop the Russian myths that are propagated about Nato itself... it needs to be able to look after its own equity in this ...
Did that guy refer to NATO's 'equity'? LOL.
Yep. Equity is all they have on their minds.
It's all about looking after US corporate interests ... and the residual interests (if any) go to corporate interests in UK, France and Germany.
NATO and the EU are US tools
primarily for US advantage.
US has created a
gang of
extra-national bodies that it uses to further American (and allied corporate interests) across Europe - like it or not.
Typical. US won't even get out of Cuban territory:
Guantánamo Bay
The United States assumed territorial control over the southern portion of Guantánamo Bay under the 1903 Cuban–American Treaty. The United States exercises complete jurisdiction and control over this territory, while recognizing that Cuba retains ultimate sovereignty.
The current government of Cuba regards the U.S. presence in Guantánamo Bay as illegal and insists the Cuban–American Treaty was obtained by threat of force and is in violation of international law. Some legal scholars judge that the lease may be voidable. [wikipedia]
So what does that tell you?
If you want to see American propaganda in action hosted by the British, check out this post.
It's a BBC presentation; article and video.
The narrator presents a the-world-hates-Russia 1:54 minute video that pops up automatically ... and the narrator goes on about figures supposedly obtained from a NGO/charity ... a survey conducted RIGHT AROUND THE WORLD ... LOL ... and the world hates Russia (er, except for a handful of countries).
It is absolutely laughable.
This mob that's supposedly provided the survey is an off-shoot of an oil trust fund and there's serious money (and serious oil corporation interests associated) with the 'surveyor'.
Link to blog article is
here.
The unsuspecting viewer of that BBC material wouldn't take the trouble to investigate where this 'survey' is coming from. Most people passively accept information that's aired. What a cheek.
But, wait, there's more folks:
Russian company representatives were denied visas they'd arranged MONTHS in advance with the UK, so they were denied attendance at an annual trade show (Farnsborough airshow) where business interests associated with military and corporate aviation, show their wares. Link to blog post -
here.
At the time, I concluded that the UK was being very petty and it struck me as a dishonourable way to behave, so I wrote it off as something inexplicable and petty.
Well, it turns out there was an agenda in place -- or that's how it comes across to me.
David Cameron, according to Reuters, will be announcing a $billions commitment to military spending ... at the Farnsborough air show!
On its own that doesn't mean a lot, I'm guessing.
- But when you are vilifying a nation (as the BBC and US have been vilifying Russia); and
- when you cut them out of the picture;
- when make a concerted effort to falsely depict Russia as the aggressor (when Russia's within own borders);
- when you dramatically boost military spending and presence of troops on European soil;
-- the combination of all those factors shows that cutting Russia out by not having visas ready wasn't just an administrative oversight (as if ... this is months of planning).
It also shows it's a very deliberate and chilling isolation of Russia, while painting Russia as the aggressor.
Of course, it's to justify to the populace why public monies must be spent on military while welfare spending doesn't get a look in.
The choice of the air show to make the announcement is revealing. Perfect place for such a happy announcement -- sweetened with 'jobs' and 'improved technology'.
Anyway, if anyone's interested in propaganda, check out the posts in relation to military spending -
here - and post in relation to the no-visa-for-Russians (and no air show) -
here.
[Excuse any typo's - in a rush.]
PS -- they've put billions into the Ukraine snatch -
here. Must see.
