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Originally Posted by Itse
The west has utilized these strategies forever. Not shooting back isn't the problem, and shooting back only escalates the problem as information warfare is really kind of a bioweapon, it doesn't really respect borders and problems created have a tendency to circulate.
What we need is to get serious about defense and making better social media platforms, and forcing social media platforms to become better.
Taiwan has also achieved a lot by actually educating its population. (They're obviouslu a huge target for Chinese propaganda.)
I highly recommend the podcast "Your Undivided Attention" and specifically their episode "Future Proofing your democracy in the age of AI" from last February.
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To be blunt, whatever strategies the west is using on the information warfare front is failing miserably. The proof is in the pudding; Brexit, Trump back for round 2 and the various pro-russian leaders that have been instilled recently throughout Europe. That's not to mention what happened in Georgia and Moldova recently. If we think we are doing a great job going tit-for-tat, we need to check the scoreboard and come to the realization that we are well behind and not doing enough.
As they say, the best defence is a good offence and that is especially true to a russian leadership that only understand force. Constantly defending means we are constantly behind the 8ball, always reactionary and not proactive. It can be called escalatory, red line, whatever other big word of the day. But in the end we are
losing miserably and it is eating western societies from the core. We can either play by the magical rulebook our opponents have no desire to follow, or was can sack the #### up and take the fight to them before it's too late.
I agree with the social media part. Education is key and I heard a few countries that have instilled social media education as a way to combat it. But simply put, we're too stupid/lazy to do that on this side of the ocean. We simply do not take this problem seriously enough.