Putin’s digital aggression is backfiring in Ukraine

It’s already clear that the Russian propaganda blast is finding the Kremlin no friends in Ukraine, even though Putin and his war cabinet were clearly prone to believe that Ukrainians were waiting to be 'liberated' and that the Ukrainian army was likely to lay down its arms or turn against its own government.
Demonstration rally in support of Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression outside of Ottawa City Hall on Feb. 27. Putin, if he believes his own propaganda and thinks he is winning the info war, is living in a dangerous feedback loop, writes Wesley Wark.
The Russian blitzkrieg in Ukraine has not gone according to plan. While force of arms might ultimately prevail in an unequal match, Vladimir Putin’s old-fashioned industrial-age war of steel, iron, and blood has met ferocious resistance from the Ukrainian military. The accompanying Russian disinf...

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