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War Has Changed: Foreign Influence Networks and the Art of Strategic Deflection
- anovikov 1y agoOne weak point here is that US is intrinsically interested in fossil fuels, because it has a lot of them and it's natural to use them as a control tool. US is a major fossil energy exporter. There's nothing pro-Russian in any US force in pushing fossil fuels.
- nabla9 1y agoYou did not read the article right. Economic Nationalism ----> Heritage Foundation, in the graph. The "substrate": beliefs and ideology are also strongly in play. Russian is meddling hard, not single cause.
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- strep_viridans 1y agoThere is a tiny little bit of irony in this being posted on a ycombinator site. More to the point though, I think it’s a pretty fantastic synthesis, I do enjoy the forward thinking.
- vjulian 1y agoThis contains a level of bias not befitting HN: A political article that presumes a governance of ‘baddies’ vs ‘goodies’. His analysis is not necessarily wrong, it’s only 50% complete. It wouldn’t be hard for him to complete it; fundamentally his ‘goodies’ operate in the same fashion as his ‘baddies’ (he just likes them more).
- strep_viridans 1y agoI don't think there are any baddies or goodies in the analysis, but a focus on systemic mechanics of indirect state capture