I have not read the entire report, but my question is this : Why is it that the West is so in awe of what the Russians, Chinese, Iranians and North Koreans are doing? Surely our combined resources are far greater than what they have? Why is it that they apparently have so much control over us? Are dictatorships the way of the future? Or can the West persevere in this apparent battle between the ideologies that seperate us? Bewildered
Thank you for the interesting Report on Deception…you are correct that in the non-West we use different conceptions and doctrines of deception.
I won’t go into detail as you already know this - one concept we use is Reflexive Deception.
In this respect I found this line of particular interest: “President Volodymyr Zelenskyy masterfully leveraged social media to ensure his nation received military, economic, intelligence, political, and humanitarian aid from the West..”
You are surely aware of the current friction between Poland and Ukraine as Poland will now officially commemorate what they call “the genocide and ethnic-cleansing” by Ukrainian Nazis during the Great Patriotic War/WW2. This has upset Ukraine as they have integrated the descendants and modern manifestations of these Nazi groups into their Army and society. The Jewish Forward magazine has warned for years about this.
The Polish President - in order not to escalate the friction - said that “the anniversary of the genocide in Volhynia will be observed on July 11," adding that “this will be a national day of remembrance of victims of the genocide committed on Poles by Ukrainian nationalists in Volhynia.”.
The ZELENSKY regime riposted with “Poland's decision to designate July 11 as the National Day of Remembrance of Poles – Victims of Genocide Committed by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) on the Eastern lands of the Second Polish Republic contradicts the good neighbourly relations..”
Reflexive Deception inter alia relates to how the self-deception of an adversary is turned against him and how one maneuvers and funnels him into a position of paradox or zugzwang…mostly through tiny cognitive adjustments…
Your observation of the “masterful ZELENSKY” is in fact all about how he deceived the West - you own definition says “Deception—the act of deliberately misleading your foe so that they will take actions that contribute to your own goals—has a long history and enduring value in war.” You cannot have your cake and eat it is a popular saying and another one is “don’t interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”. Your analysis is heavily biased towards praise-singing for Ukraine about whom you write endlessly - the task of intelligence is to study the adversary so perhaps your subconscious brain agrees with me: you were and are deceived by the Ukrainians in defence of a regime that had openly integrated neo-Nazis - simple facts - and such a regime is not a member of “democracies that fight authoritarians”…neither are settler -colonies which are inherently violent, authoritarian and spin narratives to maintain domination through hegemonic trickery.
You make a sharp observation: “An effective way to deceive humans is to have them engage in self-deception. As Conrad Crane wrote, “It is easier to deceive us than most of our enemies..”…
Indeed Sirs, it is … and you are being “masterfully” deceived…
I have not read the entire report, but my question is this : Why is it that the West is so in awe of what the Russians, Chinese, Iranians and North Koreans are doing? Surely our combined resources are far greater than what they have? Why is it that they apparently have so much control over us? Are dictatorships the way of the future? Or can the West persevere in this apparent battle between the ideologies that seperate us? Bewildered
Dear Mick RYAN and Peter SINGER
Thank you for the interesting Report on Deception…you are correct that in the non-West we use different conceptions and doctrines of deception.
I won’t go into detail as you already know this - one concept we use is Reflexive Deception.
In this respect I found this line of particular interest: “President Volodymyr Zelenskyy masterfully leveraged social media to ensure his nation received military, economic, intelligence, political, and humanitarian aid from the West..”
You are surely aware of the current friction between Poland and Ukraine as Poland will now officially commemorate what they call “the genocide and ethnic-cleansing” by Ukrainian Nazis during the Great Patriotic War/WW2. This has upset Ukraine as they have integrated the descendants and modern manifestations of these Nazi groups into their Army and society. The Jewish Forward magazine has warned for years about this.
The Polish President - in order not to escalate the friction - said that “the anniversary of the genocide in Volhynia will be observed on July 11," adding that “this will be a national day of remembrance of victims of the genocide committed on Poles by Ukrainian nationalists in Volhynia.”.
The ZELENSKY regime riposted with “Poland's decision to designate July 11 as the National Day of Remembrance of Poles – Victims of Genocide Committed by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) on the Eastern lands of the Second Polish Republic contradicts the good neighbourly relations..”
Reflexive Deception inter alia relates to how the self-deception of an adversary is turned against him and how one maneuvers and funnels him into a position of paradox or zugzwang…mostly through tiny cognitive adjustments…
Your observation of the “masterful ZELENSKY” is in fact all about how he deceived the West - you own definition says “Deception—the act of deliberately misleading your foe so that they will take actions that contribute to your own goals—has a long history and enduring value in war.” You cannot have your cake and eat it is a popular saying and another one is “don’t interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”. Your analysis is heavily biased towards praise-singing for Ukraine about whom you write endlessly - the task of intelligence is to study the adversary so perhaps your subconscious brain agrees with me: you were and are deceived by the Ukrainians in defence of a regime that had openly integrated neo-Nazis - simple facts - and such a regime is not a member of “democracies that fight authoritarians”…neither are settler -colonies which are inherently violent, authoritarian and spin narratives to maintain domination through hegemonic trickery.
You make a sharp observation: “An effective way to deceive humans is to have them engage in self-deception. As Conrad Crane wrote, “It is easier to deceive us than most of our enemies..”…
Indeed Sirs, it is … and you are being “masterfully” deceived…