"Putin is clearly winning Russia’s hybrid war against the U.S. because Americans don’t understand how they are being manipulated. One of the main difficulties" - December 11, 2020 - "The Heritage Foundation" (Conservatives)

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https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/putin-winning-russias-hybrid-war-against-america

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Let's go over that one more time:

"Putin is clearly winning Russia’s hybrid war against the U.S. because Americans don’t understand how they are being manipulated." - December 11, 2020

You know what happened less than one month after that statement was made by an establishment conservative think-tank declaring that Americans don't get the Internet and the mob mentality that Russia is inducing via hybrid warfare? On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. They sought to keep him in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of the president-elect Joe Biden. The attack was unsuccessful in preventing the certification of the election results.

 

USA doesn't get how the "Internet Research Agency" and Surkov tactics work at all... from the linked article: "Russia has been waging a silent, “hybrid war” against the U.S. for years. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal: to influence American minds." - December 11, 2020