On this week’s World War Next, Cliff Schecter, putting on his former State Dept democracy promotion hat, is joined by Olga Lautman, expert on Russian propaganda and influence operations, and Jacob Kaarsbo, former Danish intelligence officer. They take a hard look at a Russia that keeps escalating, because nobody's tried to stop it.
Putin is rattling the nuclear saber again--an old Soviet propaganda trick: everything will result in nuclear war!--as Russian embassies are pushing a crisis that doesn’t exist. Meanwhile, Ukraine is rewriting how wars are fought with a combination of World War I and World War Next tactics. Past and future, all in one war.
Jacob explains why Denmark’s new threat assessment comes down to one point: Russia isn’t deterred. Olga makes the case for how to change that: an escalation ladder that tells Moscow, in advance, exactly what each provocation will cost them—and lays out networks Western agencies have been slow to act on for decades.
For the details of how Olga would set up the escalating ladder of punishment, Jacob's explanation of what a credible deterrence strategy looks like, and Cliff's take on a political strategy to end Americans' using special forces training to help Russian killers, watch the video and read the rest at BAM!
