The war in Ukraine, Russia’s passivity in the face of attacks on Iran and Venezuela, and the gap between digital narrative and strategic reality.
– The narrative of Russian victory in Ukraine
– Moscow’s strategic passivity toward attacks on its allies
– Disinformation as a tool of geopolitical manipulation
On the track, you see the real horses…
That is what turf enthusiasts say, but apparently not only on racetracks.
According to reports reaching us from all media sources, the United States and Israel attacked Iran and would have killed Ali Khamenei, almost a representative of Allah on Earth, along with a senior military officer. Although the news is not entirely clear, everything initially indicates that this may have occurred.
Naturally, many people, including the author of these lines, might have preferred the target to be Díaz-Canel, even without sending him to the next world. But what motivates these reflections is something else.
Something no less important.
Disinformation.
For four years, mainly on YouTube but also through other channels, people of little intelligence or great bad faith have tried to convince the world that Russia has won the war in Ukraine and that its troops are already surrounding Lisbon.
False beyond false.
Russia has struggled immensely to advance only a few kilometers in the Donbass front against a third or fourth-rate power, bombing energy and civilian areas criminally, knowing that the military aid provided by the United States and Europe does not allow Ukraine to directly strike Russian territory, at least not massively.
And of course, Russia has lost thousands of young soldiers because of the megalomania of its autocratic leader.
So why mention this?
Because computer strategists and some clownish figures on social media and YouTube repeated like a mantra that the United States would not attack Venezuela and later that it would not do so regarding Iran, because the country of Dostoevsky and Putin would not allow it.
They were wrong.
Russia did nothing serious in either case because, aside from its nuclear arsenal, its obsolete military hardware does not allow it to act.
Of course, no one knows what will happen next, but up to now, silence.
And without nuclear weapons, the blond president of the North would likely have launched several missiles as well.
And then there is China. North Korea only served to send a few unfortunate men as cannon fodder.
China observes and waits, with few concrete expressions.
And of course, the Chinese are thinking only about Taiwan, while also observing how American weaponry performs.
They are not wasting time on any Ayatollah.