[igor47]

Fascinating, if not surprising. I sometimes wonder whether China's firewall is a huge tactical advantage in distributed warfare like this. Open societies are vulnerable to this kind is manipulation, and I'm not sure what defenses there are short of also becoming closed societies. Russian corruption is infectious

Relatedly, I recently heard Dan Carlin (of hardcore history) on Sam Harris's podcast wonder how much of the current discord in the US is the product of Russian influence campaigns (and whether we'll ever find out)

[SPICLK2]

I've been saying this for a while. WW3 is already over and we lost, we just haven't noticed yet. It was fought against the West (primarily the US) using their own tools and ideologies.

[tim333]

It's not really a world war in the WW1 and WW2 sense though. More a low level conflict, plus some fighting in Ukraine.

I guess you could argue Russia got a Russian backed president into power in the US but he doesn't do everything they want and Russia is having a bad time at the moment.

[N_Lens]

Your post getting downvoted is classic “they hated him because he spoke the truth”. WW3 is an information war, a war for narrative control.