Russia’s war against Ukraine was called a “hybrid war.” The problem with phrasings in which the noun “war” is qualified by an adjective such as “hybrid” is that they sound like “war minus” when what they really mean is “war plus.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)
#hybridwar #war
The most remarkable element of Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine was the information war designed to undermine factuality… It, too, continued in the United States, with greater sophistication and more impressive results than in Ukraine. Ukraine lost the information war to Russia in the sense that others did not understand Ukraine’s predicament. In general, Ukrainian citizens did. The same cannot be said of Americans.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom
#russia #usa #informationwar #war