Dissecting NATO Cogntive Warfare
A deep dive and analysis into the dossier on cognitive battlefields
The newest frontier for war is the human mind. Upon realizing how hackable and easy to influence it it actually is, our wonderful North Atlantic Terrorist Organization has decided it will be the next frontier of warfare. The battle for your attention—social media does this daily; the battle for your cognition—mass media information dissemination also bombards us daily; but only recently did the State decide to not only fight for your mind but your reactions, a deeper level of psychological manipulation. And they’ve written a guide on how they plan to do it. Let’s dive in.
The manual can be found here
We are fighting AI that is working on behalf of the state department.
And by defend against algorithms, we mean simply tie the companies in Silicon Valley that are responsible for and maintain the algorithms, into the government and make them an arm of the state. What do we call that thing when corporation in State merges together for the same idea logical purpose? Oh that’s right, that’s fucking fascism.
Have you wondered why lately some of your social media posts have been suppressed, some of your accounts have been blocked or warned—have you wondered why you’re not getting the reactions you used to get. NATO literally admitting its interfering.
Such as establishing a loosely connected group of nationalists parading themselves as socialist a.k.a. Breadtube serves imperialism. Cf. Jabba the Vash.
In the past this was radio free Asia, radio free Europe, and tons and tons of newspapers owned by the CIA as front operations. In today’s world, they are bought farms on Twitter with strings of numbers and their usernames. They are AI generated profile pictures. They are copy and pasted scripts of the same comments from different accounts at near the same time. They are movies faked with CGI and Hollywood budgets, to depict acts of warfare, that never happened. That is the level of reality our computers can create in terms of manufacturing narrative.
The ruling class has been doing divide and conquer for ages. This in and of itself isn’t anything new.
In fact in a way, the hyper individualism of Neoliberalism and its adjacent tendencies such as libertarian market ideology and the antecedent laissez-faire capitalism served as real time experimentation on such cognitive persuasion and division tactics. Literally the entirety of civil rights gains were populations working in coalition to overcome artificially stoked divisions
Look at Twitter for the duration of the Ukraine Donbas conflict. All of these are in play at once. Polarize the left vs itself. Keep the left-right American Overton Window tightly closed around acceptable beliefs. Isolate, by algorithm, individuals trying to combat the cognitive manipulation suppress into the electronic void
See the fake videos, false narratives, reused images from unrelated conflicts, any and all propaganda that can be tooled and retooled to support the State official narrative—in support of Ukrainian Nazis at this present moment—to combat Russian influence in its own territory.
Mass confusion. Check.
Disrupt economic activity — Nord 2 and Swift exclusion, sanctions, trade restrictions RT news banned, etc. check.
Attempted Delegitimizations of both the Russian Federation and the newly recognized DPR and LPR. Check
Every single point being used by the propagandists.
It goes back to the observations of Dr. Michael Parenti in the ability of the wealthy elite, the oligarchs to buy influence; with the help of the CIA front companies, known since 1975 as a gray asset. See below.
This is monopoly capitalism in action.
This is very much where we stand today. With tirades against the main stream media, specifically legacy cable media. With the recent banning of RT, a Russian news station on many platforms in the US, we’re seeing the immediate restriction of freedoms America has stood on as a foundational ground, specifically freedoms of the press; rights treasured as sacred since it’s inception. Seems these rights are only applicable to US press, even if a business if operating within the US as a legitimate legal business entity with US licensure.
The US leadership is undermining itself, and the ensuing chaos is ensuring further division.
The goal of Confusion for the general population with regards to the current Ukraine Russia conflict has succeeded. This is intentional by NATO’s own documentation. (See above)
Two years later, the irony is palpable. The exposed lack of honesty of the US institutions toward the people in regards to COVID-19, has proven that it can’t be trusted. Shutdowns, but no help for the people. Mass vaccine push, then we get Pfizer data released in 2022 showing a huge amount of side-effects. After five different variants and mutations of COVID-19, a media apparatus still pushing vaccination for a variant of COVID-19 no longer even active within the population.
Sowing distrust, the manual itself lives up to its advice several times throughout. And this, being a NATO friendly document itself, it’s no surprise the three countries with the most political economy to resist US and NATO imperialist expansion—China, Russia, and Iran—were mentioned often.
Even in its description of how it propagandizes in the digital age, NATO authors can’t resist demonizing arbitrarily assigned “enemies of the state”
Hint: The Iranian, Russian, and Chinese people are not your enemy.
Like Iraq weapons of mass destruction
Assad Gas Attacks Faked in Syria
US and State Police Gassing its own citizens in Portland Oregon.
Personal liberties like banning freedom of the press.
Lying continually about COVID-19 since its inception.
Militarization of local police forces because the bourgeois state is afraid of its own citizens as its economy collapses.
Those personal liberties?
Mask off, NATO openly admitting to and vindicating Lenin on the idea of Imperialism, economic dominance from monopoly capital—that’s the important part they left out, the monopoly capital, acting as if the government itself is not influenced by the oligarchic pressures of bought congress people and presidential cabinets—showing that sanctions are used to cognitively change the mind of the populace under a puppet regime or comprador class. See also: the global south coups, the Middle East destabilization, and making the the working population suffer, so as to facilitate the destruction of confidence in the leadership.
Next on influence:
Again, several prongs of cognitive warfare used for influence in various spheres of life.
Quell dissent, hmm, like the truckers fighting against mandates, or promote extremist ideologies like Jaysh al-Islam extremists in Syria, or extremist Imams on the Xinjiang borders to recruit impoverished Uyghurs (at the time before investment in the region) to extremist positions causing terrorist attacks in China.
Also, Turkey being a facilitator of the passage of these extremists as a NATO country, is complicit as a puppet state for US regime change and encirclement operations. And a good historical example of how geography, military strategy, and population control the through psychological operations can greatly enact harm to a region I can’t imagine why Russia wouldn’t want the Ukraine in NATO for all three of those respectively
Not surprising that a NATO authored document would vilify both China and the US taking care of its own citizens in the same breath, and use the buzzword “isolationist” with its negative connotation to describe social welfare. Neoliberalism indeed.
NATO document again, demonizing a political figure that was slowly dismantling NATO, no surprise there. Russiagate, which has been thoroughly debunked by now, but the subtle dig deserved mention.
The attention economy changed this timeframe dramatically, with things and historical events getting memory holed, and the ability of the oligarch controlled media apparatus to undermine and gaslight whole swaths of the population at once, it’s the Marxist historical materialist framework that allows us to delve into the past, and look into the driving historical forces that are behind these cognitive campaigns. It’s not even necessary for ideological purposes, but for simply analyzing historical contexts.
Example. Odd Bezmenov speaks of the 15-20 years needed for demoralizing a population against an ideology, form 1984, obviously cognitive of the destabilization of the USSR from the Gorbachev era, he seems suspiciously informed on the topic and the timeframe.
Social media has shortened this by 75-80%.
If NATO plans to preserve it’s own manufactured reality and expansionism it must continue to manufacture consent for warfare that only benefits the monopoly capitalists in the weapons industry. FTFY.
This is probably the most chilling passage yet. Facebook, explicitly stating here that it is working with the US State Department. We know monopoly capitalism devolves into oligarchic control of the state. Facebook and the intelligence community working together to censor what they deem detrimental to NATO interests. Of course, the keeper of all facts, the fact checkers god-kings at places like factcheck.org and the Snopes super soldiers, are the state sponsored arbiters of truth.
This is sounding more Orwellian, much like the ministry of truth the deeper we dive in. The greatest irony is that 1984 was supposed to be anti-communist, and yet here we are in the birth pangs of neo-fascism, mere days from the blackshirts 2.0, and we let the new public square, social media like Facebook, Twitter etc, algorithmically control the groups we associate with, the ideas we’re exposed to, and who is a legitimate user or a “russian bot.” Dire times incoming.
This is the end of part 1 of 3 in this series in Cognitive Warfare. The second half will work through the second half of the manual. If this was an account of the history of cognitive warfare and control of narrative NATO has used in the past. The next installment will look at the projected future threats and will be somewhat shorter but will apply it to the current situation of Russia and Ukraine in relation to NATO (whatever that situation looks like at the time of writing) Finally, the 3rd installment will delve into the recent upsurge in radical ideas from both he left and right, the technologies used to evade and congregate outside the surveillance state, and the material reasons that have arisen from cognitive warfare counter intelligence and signal intelligence and opsec designed by users of social media cognizant of the phenomenon. This third one will focus more on the work by Parenti, “Inventing Reality” as it’s very relevant to the current state of media and cognitive influence and attempts at nation-state actors control over the very battlefield of the mind.
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