Putin’s Real Long Game

The world order we know is already over, and Russia is moving fast to grab the advantage. Can Trump figure out the new war in time to win it?

Overview

What both administrations fail to realize is that the West is already at war, whether it wants to be or not. It may not be a war we recognize, but it is a war. This war seeks, at home and abroad, to erode our values, our democracy, and our institutional strength; to dilute our ability to sort fact from fiction, or moral right from wrong; and to convince us to make decisions against our own best interests. (Excerpt)

Why is this important?

I underlined many sentences in this remarkable Politico piece about what Putin thinks he’s up to in attacking with weaponized narrative. E.g, “What both administrations fail to realize is that the West is already at war, whether it wants to be or not.” And Putin wants “the West – and specifically NATO and America – to become weaker and more fractured until we are as broken as [Putin] perceives them to be.” Well worth the read. – Joel Garreau