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> I don't see why an official would publicly broadcast active wartime capabilities and tactics that might not be known. That explains the anonymous officials
by gpm 5y ago
> I don't see why an official would publicly broadcast active wartime capabilities and tactics that might not be known.
That explains the anonymous officials not agreeing with this stance. That doesn't explain the non-government experts not agreeing that this is the reason though. They don't have any special knowledge and wouldn't be telling the Russians anything they didn't already know.
> And, there's a strong possibility that we're experiencing some psyops here, to make the Russians appear incompetent
There's probably a degree of this, but from what I've seen it also seems to be legitimately the case that they are somewhat incompetent.
Besides which, the Russian's letting that psyop succeed, would itself be direct evidence of incompetence.
- ethbr0 5y agoRe: psyops, Russia has many of the same weaknesses as China, in that their practitioners cannot conceive of an independent, actively contradicting and adversarial infosphere. Inside Russia or China, psyops is muting whoever says something you don't like, and deciding on and disseminating the message of the day. Outside of Russia or China, that looks very different, with everyone opining on your message whenever they feel like it, in addition to virality being a huge component of message reach. That's a very different skillset to navigate successfully.