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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 3h

“If Americans had a more clear-eyed view of Putin, they would see a dictator who’s bet everything on a failed invasion, a country losing its sphere of influence, and an economy…cooling. A realistic view of his power would strip Putin of his biggest leverage: the perception of his invincibility.”

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 5h

Russia’s leader isn’t nearly as strong as he’s made out to be, Andrew Ryvkin writes. “A realistic view of his power would strip Putin of his biggest leverage: the perception of his invincibility”:

Putin Is Not Winning

Underestimating the Russian leader is dangerous, but ascribing dark powers to him plays right into his hands.

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AngryFella @angryfella420.fellas.army · 1h

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Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦🪬 @badtoss.bsky.social · 3h

This is how we win.

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d

⚡️ NATO chief mocks Russia over malfunctioning submarine 'limping home from patrol.'

"What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October. Today, it seems more like the hunt for the nearest mechanic," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.

NATO chief mocks Russia over malfunctioning submarine 'limping home from patrol'

"What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October. Today, it seems more like the hunt for the nearest mechanic," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 3h

Justice. "The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors." FactMatters apnews.com/article/supr...

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shoot...

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Hanna Liubakova @hannaliubakova.bsky.social · 21h

#Belarus The heartbreaking and dark reality of what we face. Writer Ales Palynski died at the age of 58, and no one can bury him in Belarus. His wife and daughter are in jail. His son, my colleague, great journalist and musician, fled and now lives in exile. Painful.

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Red Scarf Fella @redscarffella.bsky.social · 6h

Anne Applebaum: “The image of the ugly American always competed with the image of the generous American. Now that the latter has disappeared, the only Americans anyone can see are the ones trying to rip you off.”

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 6h

The only viable countermeasure is sustained cognitive resilience — an interdisciplinary fusion of education, technological vigilance, intelligence adaptation, and public inoculation against manipulation.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 6h

The failure to detect, decode, and pre-empt these operations invites chronic policy paralysis, societal division, and long-term geopolitical disadvantage.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 6h

The result is a continuously evolving threat environment in which truth becomes malleable, perception is weaponized, and societal resilience is undermined.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 6h

Instead, it is deployed across integrated digital ecosystems, where narrative engineering intersects with AI-driven sentiment analysis, psychological profiling, and real-time adaptive messaging.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 6h

However, the global information environment has amplified both the scale and subtlety of these tactics. In an era of hyperconnectivity, reflexive control no longer relies solely on state media or clandestine operations.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 6h

The underlying mechanism remains constant: influencing adversaries by exploiting their decision-making structures, cognitive biases, and institutional blind spots to induce voluntary compliance with the manipulator’s strategic objectives.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 6h

Reflexive control, once a distinct feature of Soviet military strategy, has evolved into a transnational cognitive warfare framework adopted by multiple state and non-state actors.

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The recipient, influenced by this tailored information, acts in what they believe is their own interest, but in fact aligns with the manipulator’s strategic objectives.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 6h

<< Reflexive control (рефлексивное управление), as codified in Russian military thought, is a method by which an actor conveys information — often deceptive or misleading — with the aim of causing the target to make decisions that favor the sender. >>

Weaponized Perception: Reflexive Control and Cognitive Subversion in 2

The doctrine of reflexive control, originating from Soviet military theory in the 1960s and 1970s (notably articulated by V.A. Lefebvre and N.I. Turko), refers to a method of transmitting specially pr

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 6h

To fight disinformation effectively, we must stop imagining we are correcting errors.

We are, instead, contending with an enemy that understands the human need for certainty, pattern, and purpose—and uses that need to install software into the mind.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 6h

They begin with plausible auxiliary hooks—masks are uncomfortable, voting software is flawed, experts can be wrong—and slowly construct hardened networks of belief that are immune to contradiction.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 6h

Disinformation campaigns surrounding COVID-19, the U.S. election system, the war in Ukraine, and globalist conspiracy theories have all relied on fixation engineering.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 6h

—over-reliance on core fixations, failure to revise in light of new data, and susceptibility to projection.

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Through a combination of contradictory messaging, symbolic confusion, emotional overload, and selectively truthful claims, reflexive control exploits the same vulnerabilities Dielenberg describes -

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 6h

It is not about brute persuasion.

It is about manipulating the fixation architecture of the target audience.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 7h

<< Reflexive control seeks to manipulate an adversary by shaping their decision-making framework: implanting premises, seeding perceptions, and guiding behavior from within their own reasoning process. >>

From Fixation to Manipulation: The Biological Foundations of Disinform

In the age of algorithmic propaganda and weaponized narrative, the human mind has become contested territory. Disinformation no longer functions as a crude tool of ideological persuasion. It now

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

LOOSING AND LASHING OUT?
HOW DANGEROUS IS RUSSIA?

One argument running through the analytical minds of many is that now Russia has failed so miserably in Ukraine - and that seems to have sunk in to even the harder line commanders, there’s a danger that Putin may try something very different.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 8h

⚡️ The Kremlin just gave Putin the power to send up to 2 million reservists into combat abroad, including Ukraine.

The Kremlin Gives Putin Free Hand to Send Up to 2 Million Reservists Into Battles Abroad

The Kremlin has eased restrictions on reservist deployment, allowing their use in Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to the Institute for the Study of War.

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