The US tech world and Russia

US accuses Russia of interfering in 2024 election via RT, faked news

After interfering in the US 2016 election, Russia has returned. This time, even more is riding on the interference campaign.

The Kremlintarian tendency of American libertarians

A while ago, I wrote about what appears to be a rhetorical alignment between Western libertarians and the Kremlin’s messaging. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the divide between East and West regarding libertarianism has become more evident. In some European libertarian circles, those who adopt such views are derogatorily referred to as […]

The US tech world and Russia

Given the interest in Elon Musk’s flirtation with the Kremlin view on Ukraine, the topic of the Western tech world’s openness to Kremlin narratives has emerged again. I’ve gotten a small spike of interest in a presentation I made at SXSW in 2018. So I’ll share it here again in a downloadable form. If I […]

US declassifies and releases more intel to ‘expose Russia’s strategy’

The US has released the kernel of another intelligence assessment that describes the Kremlin’s global malign influence machine. Following the liberal tradition, it produces facts, allowing the public the make up its mind. This is in contrast to the authoritarian model that relies more on producing narrative. Democracies argue in facts. Authoritarians play with meanings. […]

China’s challenge & Russia’s threat: the director’s cut

The film director Brian De Palma had this to say about director’s careers… “We don’t plan them out, we happen to be working on one thing, then another happens, then another thing is delayed. Then we do the thing we can do at the time.” There is a lesson in this for the great debate […]