CIA Director Bill Burns testified today that he believes Vladimir Putin is 'losing the information war' in Ukraine, undermining the Russian leader's ability to rally support at home and abroad for his war of aggression.
CIA Director Bill Burns testified Thursday that he believes Vladimir Putin is "losing the information war" in Ukraine, undermining the Russian leader's ability to rally support at home and abroad for his war of aggression.Putin has spent two decades building a "propaganda bubble" and laundering disinformation through state media, Burns said. That's why the U.S.
"I am convinced that our efforts at selective declassification, to preempt those kind of false flag narratives and the creation of false narratives, have been so important," testified Burns, a former veteran career diplomat and U.S. ambassador to Russia, to the Senate Intelligence Committee. "In this case, I think we have had a great deal of effect disrupting their tactics and their calculations and demonstrating to the entire world that this is premeditated and unprovoked aggression built on a body of lies and false narratives. So this is one information war that I think Putin is losing.
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