{"id":935,"date":"2022-02-21T02:30:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T06:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=935"},"modified":"2022-03-11T17:36:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:36:50","slug":"pomerantsev-beyond-crying-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2022\/02\/21\/pomerantsev-beyond-crying-foul\/","title":{"rendered":"Pomerantsev: beyond crying foul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are some deeply insightful nuggets in this interview with Peter Pomerantsev,<\/a> who is among the best analysts of contemporary information warfare. Pomerantsev describes twenty-first century conflict as radically different from the form the U.S. and western countries are used to. Conflict now is multifaceted, mixing informational with political and economic strategies to create a murky terrain where the lines between war and peace are blurred. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Russian and the Chinese governments,” he says, “do it all the time. They\u2019re doing army stuff, they\u2019re doing their troll farms, they\u2019re doing their TV channels, and they\u2019re thinking about different audiences. So already,” with western governments calling him out for his planned invasion, “Putin is pivoting: ‘The West have cried foul. They said it\u2019s war. We never said it was war.’\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Putin likes to be in the murk. He likes to be in this ambiguous space where you can\u2019t really tell what\u2019s going on. And that makes it very hard for NATO and allies to get their act together.” That they are succeeding more than Putin might have predicted is a good thing, but insufficient. They may hope for an “off ramp” for Putin, but “It\u2019s not about an off ramp. It\u2019s an Escher staircase. It\u2019s going to go round and round and escalating and de-escalating and on and on and on and on.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps most importantly, Pomerantsev raises the real questions we ought to be answering collectively: “what is public diplomacy for the 21st century? What is our long term dialogue that we\u2019re trying to have with the Russian people about Russia\u2019s role in the world? What is our communication to specific audiences in Ukraine to explain what we\u2019re doing? All that needs to be happening. It really means having a kind of communication statecraft policy and institutional capacity for the 21st century.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read “Ukraine, Russia, and the 21st Century Permanent Information War.<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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