Russia was supposed to be the epitome of malign foreign influence in Washington. But its post-Cold War operation came late, on a small scale and in a clumsy fashion.
The influence operations of China and Qatar are larger, far more long-lasting, and far deeper in effect than Russia's. The "normality" of these operations has made them diffi…
Russia was supposed to be the epitome of malign foreign influence in Washington. But its post-Cold War operation came late, on a small scale and in a clumsy fashion.
The influence operations of China and Qatar are larger, far more long-lasting, and far deeper in effect than Russia's. The "normality" of these operations has made them difficult to resist, as they're difficult to identify for what they are.
The Iranian case is more like Russia's: recent, clumsy, and fairly obvious. In a sane world, it would be shut down completely or never allowed to have started in the first place. Let's hope for sanity.
Kudos to Jay Solomon for reporting on this. It's not clear to me why even the Journal shies away from talking about this. It's clear that all sorts of invisible taboo lines inhibit even a paper as good as the Journal from reporting on "sensitive" topics.
Russia was supposed to be the epitome of malign foreign influence in Washington. But its post-Cold War operation came late, on a small scale and in a clumsy fashion.
The influence operations of China and Qatar are larger, far more long-lasting, and far deeper in effect than Russia's. The "normality" of these operations has made them difficult to resist, as they're difficult to identify for what they are.
The Iranian case is more like Russia's: recent, clumsy, and fairly obvious. In a sane world, it would be shut down completely or never allowed to have started in the first place. Let's hope for sanity.
Kudos to Jay Solomon for reporting on this. It's not clear to me why even the Journal shies away from talking about this. It's clear that all sorts of invisible taboo lines inhibit even a paper as good as the Journal from reporting on "sensitive" topics.