Sept 5- Alex Alvarova- breaking Russian and digital mercenaries
Alex Alvarova
Alexandra Alvarova is a recognized authority in political marketing and public relations, a sought-after seminar leader, facilitator, and public speaker.
In 2017 she wrote The Industry of Lies, a non-fiction work that introduces, outlines and fully supports a core concept: "Russia used the 2013 presidential election in the Czech Republic as a trial run to perfect its hybrid-warfare aggression for altering the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential elections.
In 2021, she published Feeding The Demons: The conquerors of America, a political thriller on bannonist behavioural BigTech propaganda. She has written numerous articles on political marketing and algorithmic propaganda.
Please continue onto Alex’s website as it’s a treasure trove of articles and information.
Breaking the ties of Russian and digital mercenaries
Russians and digital mercenaries from the US ( Flynn, Prince) started a demonstration of power in Czech Republic, Prague.
Why should you pay attention:
Cambridge Analytica tested their final performance (2016) years before in the Czech Republic. The Czech population has similar pool of demografic and psychographic numbers as the American southern states and states where DFG scored 2016.
The internet mobilization targeted the same people as the Refugees-Trump-AntiVaxx-Truckconvoy propaganda before. It’s the same pool.
A new narrative: gas and inflation. The next narrative might be Attack from Mars.
It doesn’t matter. It’s a TEST!
Listen to what I say: It has nothing to do with gas, inflation or other core content. Do not try to solve inflation as a response. The content is not important.
This war is aiming at capturing your amygdala. It’s not about content, it’s about networks. The goal is get them under total cognitive control. Next time they will protest against cheap gas, if the networks say so.
The networks are creating influence based on coercive stimuli.
The Czech Republic is not important in this game. It’s a test.
Networked insurgency is military grade know-how. You could be successful in it only if you can develop, deploy and maintain networks of cultural tribes. Tribes have leaders and shared culture, they could get hacked.
That’s why what the victims say is not important. People under undue influence do and say incoherent things.
Only the network matters. Physical and digital networking, data mining, creating or hacking tribes. Get multiple networks together. Get them ready to fight the system.
Go and look for the physical and digital networks. They provide their victims their daily drops of connection and appraisal.
The tribe lives and thrives through cohesion as a fish in water. An illusion of majority, peer pressure and parasocial connections create the coercion ( Do so!)
Go and map the networks. Break them. Cut their connections off.
PS: Networked insurgency has no vertical hierarchy. It’s based on “nudges”, not on given orders.
Further Reading…
Elisabeth Flock, After a week of Russian propaganda, I was questioning everything
One day this past fall on my morning commute from D.C. to Virginia, I tuned the radio to 105.5 FM, expecting to hear my usual bluegrass. But instead of fiddles and guitar, I heard a voice in Russian-accented English announce: “This is Radio Sputnik.”
To better understand the organization, I put myself on a weeklong Radio Sputnik-only diet. I also spent a day in its newsroom, speaking with employees, including one who was fired soon after he began speaking with me. What I found was a stranger picture than I anticipated, one in which I began to understand how persuasive disinformation could be.