{"id":16067,"date":"2024-09-30T08:37:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T06:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/30\/in-tackling-vladimir-putins-web-of-troll-farms-and-hackers-we-have-one-advantage-democracy-peter-pomarantsev\/"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:37:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T06:37:24","slug":"in-tackling-vladimir-putins-web-of-troll-farms-and-hackers-we-have-one-advantage-democracy-peter-pomarantsev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/30\/in-tackling-vladimir-putins-web-of-troll-farms-and-hackers-we-have-one-advantage-democracy-peter-pomarantsev\/","title":{"rendered":"In tackling Vladimir Putin\u2019s web of troll farms and hackers, we have one advantage: democracy | Peter Pomarantsev"},"content":{"rendered":"

By focusing on its strengths and pooling information, the west can disrupt Russia\u2019s war machine \u2013 but there\u2019s no time to lose<\/p>\n

Russia is a \u201cmafia state\u201d trying to expand into a \u201cmafia empire\u201d<\/a>, the foreign secretary, David Lammy, told the UN, nailing the dual nature of Vladimir Putin\u2019s political model. On one hand Russia represents something very old \u2013 a world of bullying empires that invade smaller countries, grab their resources and indoctrinate their people into thinking they are inferior. But it is also something very new, weaponising corruption, criminal networks, assassinations and tech-driven psy-ops to subvert open societies. And if democracies don\u2019t act to stop it, this malign model will be imitated across the globe.<\/p>\n

Ukraine is resisting the older, zombie imperialism every day on the battlefield, and democracies will have to arm Ukraine and ourselves to constrain Russia properly. But how should we fight the more contemporary tools of political warfare that Russia pioneers? These are becoming ever more prevalent. Globalisation was meant to make us all so integrated that it would diminish the risk of wars. Instead, the free flow of information, money and people across borders also made subversion easier than ever. At the Labour party conference, Lammy indicated that democracies need to work together<\/a> to stop Russia: \u201cExposing their agents, building joint capability and working with the global south to take on Putin\u2019s lies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nBy focusing on its strengths and pooling information, the west can disrupt Russia\u2019s war machine \u2013 but there\u2019s no time to lose
\nRussia is a \u201cmafia state\u201d trying to expand into a \u201cmafia empire\u201d, the foreign secretary, David Lammy, told the UN, nailing the dual nature of Vladimir Putin\u2019s political model. On one hand Russia represents something very old \u2013 a world of bullying empires that invade smaller countries, grab their resources and indoctrinate their people into thinking they are inferior. But it is also something very new, weaponising corruption, criminal networks, assassinations and tech-driven psy-ops to subvert open societies. And if democracies don\u2019t act to stop it, this malign model will be imitated across the globe.
\nUkraine is resisting the older, zombie imperialism every day on the battlefield, and democracies will have to arm Ukraine and ourselves to constrain Russia properly. But how should we fight the more contemporary tools of political warfare that Russia pioneers? These are becoming ever more prevalent. Globalisation was meant to make us all so integrated that it would diminish the risk of wars. Instead, the free flow of information, money and people across borders also made subversion easier than ever. At the Labour party conference, Lammy indicated that democracies need to work together to stop Russia: \u201cExposing their agents, building joint capability and working with the global south to take on Putin\u2019s lies.\u201d
\nDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By focusing on its strengths and pooling information, the west can disrupt Russia\u2019s war machine \u2013 but there\u2019s no time to lose Russia is a \u201cmafia state\u201d trying to expand into a \u201cmafia empire\u201d, the foreign secretary, David Lammy, told the UN, nailing the dual nature of Vladimir Putin\u2019s political model. On one hand Russia …<\/p>\n

In tackling Vladimir Putin\u2019s web of troll farms and hackers, we have one advantage: democracy | Peter Pomarantsev<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}