"because Americans don’t understand how they are being manipulated." - December 11, 2020

"a central part of a new system of political control. And to understand how this is happening, you have to look to Russia, to a man called Vladislav Surkov, who is a hero of our time. Surkov is one of President Putin's advisers, and has helped him maintain his power for 15 years [as of 2014], but he has done it in a very new way. He came originally from the avant-garde art world, and those who have studied his career, say that what Surkov has done, is to import ideas from conceptual art into the very heart of politics. His aim is to undermine peoples' perceptions of the world, so they never know what is really happening. Surkov turned Russian politics into a bewildering, constantly changing piece of theater." - BBC, Adam Curtis, year 2014

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Egoism / egomania / LOL / mocking / mockery / amused / hilarious / WTFBBQ / ... ++ !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world / absurd humor / surreal humour / simulacras everywhere / ... !NAFO@lemm.ee LOL LOL chambers / anti-citation / anti-quotation / anti-intellectual LMFAO / tactical cleverness - year 1951

“Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985 !BackTo1985@lemm.ee

Let's go over that one more time:

"Putin is clearly winning Russia’s hybrid war against the U.S. because Americans don’t understand how they are being manipulated." - December 11, 2020

You know what happened less than one month after that statement was made by an establishment conservative think-tank declaring that Americans don't get the Internet and the mob mentality that Russia is inducing via hybrid warfare? On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. They sought to keep him in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of the president-elect Joe Biden. The attack was unsuccessful in preventing the certification of the election results.

USA doesn't get how the "Internet Research Agency" and Surkov tactics work at all... from the linked article: "Russia has been waging a silent, “hybrid war” against the U.S. for years. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal: to influence American minds." - December 11, 2020

Because Americans are entitled idiots with easily manipulated pudding brains. Heritage Foundation holds no small part of the blame for helping Trump and the other ideologues to foment discontent with the government by dialing in on the bigotries held by the idiot masses.

LOL
"The U.S. should confront Russia with evidence of their malign behavior"
There lies the problem. As if they wouldn't show it if they had any.
Usually the regime press doesn't talk about evidence in their constant demonising and slandering of Russia.
Wild accusations and blaming them for every bad thing that happens in the west based on nothing more but "it is believed, sources say,alledgedly"

By contrast, the U.S thinks of hybrid warfare as actions or tactics used before a conventional war. While the U.S. thinks it is managing pre-conflict aggression, Russia already considers itself in the midst of a strategic battle disguised as competitive aggression.

US has no "hybrid" options against Russia. Sanctions and confiscating Yachts don't prevent its high production levels. It has high gold production in addition to all other important resources and food. The Russian people know US to be evil aggressors in this war, and have a stronger determination to fight/resist than Canada does in the face of its own US aggression, because Canada has corrupt/bribable political leaders, and easily prone to division and gaslighting from those politicians.

Russia is accused of amplifying GOP division messages. It's unclear that US sources wouldn't be enough to create hate against immigrants, vaccines, trans/queer/diversity employment mandates, but GOP being thrilled by such hate, means they are by far the main responsible party.

Factual evil about the US, including admissions from politicians and mainstream media, and its BS propaganda that pretends to be informational warfare against Russia, but really is purely for domestic/western brainwashing, is general informational/factual warfare that democracies are more vulnerable to have truth influence them. US/west has still had remarkable success in maintaining anti-Russia propaganda. Israel and Iraq wars have far more detractors, and in Israel's case, truly extreme fascism is required to punish detractors from ruling class.