{"id":39144,"date":"2018-10-15T06:22:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T11:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39144"},"modified":"2018-10-15T06:22:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T11:22:12","slug":"nato-coordinates-information-war-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39144","title":{"rendered":"NATO Coordinates Information War on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"NATO Coordinates Information War on Russia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/10\/05\/or-41507.jpg\" alt=\"NATO Coordinates Information War on Russia\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/10\/05\/nato-coordinates-information-war-on-russia.html\">NATO Coordinates Information War on Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>The US, Britain and other NATO allies upped the ante this week with a coordinated campaign of information war to criminalize Russia. Moscow dismissed the wide-ranging claims as \u201cspy mania\u201d. But the implications amount to a grave assault recklessly escalating international tensions with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The accusations that the Kremlin is running a global cyberattack operation are tantamount to accusing Russia of \u201cacts of war\u201d. That, in turn, is creating a pretext for NATO powers to carry out \u201cdefensive\u201d actions on Moscow, including increased economic and diplomatic sanctions against Russia, as well as \u201ccounter\u201d cyberattacks on Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>This is a highly dangerous dynamic that could ultimately lead to military confrontation between nuclear-armed states.<\/p>\n<p>There are notably suspicious signs that the latest accusations against Russia are a coordinated effort to contrive false charges.<\/p>\n<p>First, there is the concerted nature of the claims. British state intelligence initiated the latest phase of information war by claiming that Russian military intelligence, GRU, was conducting cyberattacks on infrastructure and industries in various countries, costing national economies \u201cmillions of pounds\u201d in damages.<\/p>\n<p>Then, within hours of the British claims, the United States and Canada, as well as NATO partners Australia and New Zealand followed up with similar highly publicized accusations against Russia. It is significant that those Anglophone countries, known as the \u201cFive Eyes\u201d, have a long history of intelligence collaboration going back to the Cold War years against the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands, another NATO member, added to the \u201cspy mania\u201d by claiming it had expelled four members of Russian state intelligence earlier this year for allegedly trying to hack into the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), based in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO Coordinates Information War on Russia The US, Britain and other NATO allies upped the ante this week with a coordinated campaign of information war to criminalize Russia. Moscow dismissed the wide-ranging claims as \u201cspy mania\u201d. But the implications amount to a grave assault recklessly escalating international tensions with Russia. The accusations that the Kremlin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[41,93,103,4884,1997,2711,1542,471,542,553,4002,694,8203,827,862],"class_list":["post-39144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-australia","tag-britain","tag-canada","tag-cyberwarfare","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-five-eyes","tag-information-war","tag-kremlin","tag-moscow","tag-nato","tag-new-zealand","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39145,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39144\/revisions\/39145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}