The United Eunuchs of Europe — Strategic Culture (strategic-culture.su) At the end of October, the president of the EU parliament Roberta Metsola was asked by a journalist whether the EU would formally open Ukraine and Moldova’s accession talks after granting candidate status to these countries in 2022. “If a country…

Chi è (veramente) Zakhar Prilepin e perché è così importante per il futuro della Russia — OP-ED — L’Antidiplomatico (lantidiplomatico.it) Seguo il lavoro di Zakhar Prilepin da molti anni, da quando rimasi folgorata dalla corrente che trasmette la sua scrittura: la ruvidità del registro parlato viene impastata così bene da…

(11) Talk The Walk with Laura Ruggeri — YouTube I was a guest on Azam Khan’s program “Talk the Walk” on HKIBC, a Hong Kong business channel. 1. You’ve researched and published extensively on “hybrid warfare” and its deployment for colour revolutions. Can you briefly explain the term hybrid warfare…

Marketing Ukraine’s Reconstruction to Fuel the War — Strategic Culture (strategic-culture.org) L’operazione militare russa in Ucraina era appena iniziata e i principali attori della coalizione che sostiene l’Ucraina, così come le istituzioni finanziarie e i think tank transatlantici, stavano già discutendo della ricostruzione del Paese. Inevitabilmente la spacciavano come un’opportunità…

Marketing Ukraine’s Reconstruction to Fuel the War — Strategic Culture (strategic-culture.su) Immediately after the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, key players in the coalition supporting Ukraine, as well as transatlantic financial institutions and think tanks, were already discussing Ukraine’s reconstruction. They invariably framed it as a historic opportunity…

PARTENARIATO ORIENTALE, LA SCOMMESSA GEOPOLITICA DELL’UE CHE STA INABISSANDO L’EUROPA La cooptazione di sei paesi ex-sovietici da parte dell’Unione Europea li ha trasformati in un campo di battaglia per la guerra ibrida contro la Russia e ha fondamentalmente minato l’architettura della sicurezza europea. <Traduzione italiana di Eastern Partnership, the EU’s…

Eastern Partnership, the EU’s Geopolitical Gamble Leading Europe Into the Abyss — Strategic Culture (strategic-culture.su) The European Union’s co-optation of six ex-Soviet countries around an anti-Russian agenda turned them into a hybrid warfare battleground and fundamentally undermined Europe’s security architecture. In February 2007, at the Munich Security Conference, Vladimir Putin…

On June 5 Corriere della Sera, one of Italy’s oldest and most influential newspapers, splashed the pictures and names of 9 people, including mine, above the headline “Putin’s network in Italy: the influencers and opinion leaders who produce propaganda for Moscow”. According to the clumsy article that accompanied this sensationalist…

Is Russia Losing the Information War? — Strategic Culture (strategic-culture.su) On March 10 when CIA director Bill Burns addressed the US Senate and declared “Russia is losing the information war over Ukraine”, he repeated a claim that had already been amplified by Anglo-American media since the start of Russia’s military…