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Information Warfare Can Turn Russians Against Putin
It is time the West make use of information warfare’s full potential to split Vladimir Putin from his supporters.
Despite Russian president Vladimir Putin’s 83 percent approval rating, his deceptions about losses in Ukraine and gradual increases in the costs of sanctions make him vulnerable to a Western campaign of information warfare.
- Julian Spencer-Churchill and Touraj Riazi
- The National Interest
Putin must now deliver victory or face being removed.
Skeptics warn that any perceived foreign interference in Russian society will trigger a defensive nationalism that neutralizes any of the effects of Western-influenced agitation.
They will highlight the consistent failure of contemporary…