demoralize, divide, distract, and ultimately defeat a rival country, according to the russians military doctrine on this subject, you don t just do it in wartime, you have to do it all the time or it doesn t work. when huffington post did their dive into how bernie supporters got targeted in this russian attack, they focused in part on a bernie sanders facebook page called bernie sanders lovers which says it is based in burlington, vermont. it s not. it s based in albania and nobody who s not from albania appears to have anything to do with that bernie sanders site. but the important thing here is that that bernie sanders lovers page run out of albania, it s still there. still running. still operating. still churning this stuff out. now. this is not american politics. this is not partisan warfare between republicans and democrats.
and in the russian militaries preeminent journal which is called military thought in 2014 in a seminal article entitled information operations on the battlefield in that article in 2014 russian military bragged that if information warfare is going to work, it must be conducted constantly, in peacetime, in the period of threats, and in wartime. if you re going to use information warfare to confuse, demoralize, divide, distract, and ultimately defeat a rival country, according to the russians military doctrine on this subject, you don t just do it in wartime, you have to do it all the time or it doesn t work. when huffington post did their dive into how bernie supporters got targeted in this russian attack, they focused in part on a bernie sanders facebook page called bernie sanders lovers
must be conducted constantly, in peacetime, in the period of threats, and in wartime. if you re going to use information warfare to confuse, demoralize, divide, distract, and ultimately defeat a rival country, according to the russians military doctrine on this subject, you don t just do it in wartime, you have to do it all the time or it doesn t work. when huffington post did their dive into how bernie supporters got targeted in this russian attack, they focused in part on a bernie sanders facebook page called bernie sanders lovers which says it is based in burlington, vermont. it s not. it s based in albania and nobody who s not from albania appears to have anything to do with that bernie sanders site. but the important thing here is that that bernie sanders lovers page run out of albania, it s still there. still running.