Russia is effectively waging a cognitive war against the West, exploiting ideological fissures and weakening democratic confidence, while the West has dismantled its own information warfare capabilities. Moscow's intelligence continuity spans five centuries, consistently using surveillance, provocation, and manipulation to defend the center and control the periphery. The Soviet collapse did not end this operational culture, which views sovereignty as conditional and civil society as penetrable, demanding intelligence access from former Soviet states like Ukraine and Georgia.
Yuri Bezmenov's warnings about subversion as a war on perception, aimed at reengineering a society's mental environment over "15 to 20 years," remain relevant. Russia's modern influence ecosystem is ideologically promiscuous, amplifying diverse radical narratives to corrode trust and fracture alliances. American politics, with exploitable pathologies in both parties, has become fertile ground. The West's institutional capacity for ideological competition has severely decayed since the Cold War, leaving it vulnerable to foreign powers colonizing its imagination and fostering internal chaos.
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