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Russia’s hybrid war

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Below is an excellent interview with Sean Wiswesser, author of TRADECRAFT, TACTICS AND DIRTY TRICKS: RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE & PUTIN’S SECRET WAR

Hybrid warfare is a strategy that blends conventional military force with non‑military tools—such as cyberattacks, disinformation, economic pressure, and proxy actors—to achieve political objectives while staying below the threshold of open war.

Hybrid warfare integrates multiple instruments of power—military, political, economic, informational, and technological—to exploit ambiguity and weaken an opponent without triggering full-scale conflict. It deliberately blurs the lines between war and peace, state and non‑state actors, and overt and covert action.

Update on CIA Moscow visit

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Many analysts say that the CIA director’s visit to Moscow was to warn the psychopaths in the Kremlin not to embark on action too provocative to ignore. The Russian government’s hostility towards the democratic West has not subsided – indeed has never changed. We in the West are the eternal enemy. Most of us don’t realise that we are constantly trying to appease an enemy that will never be appeased. Now, the American intelligence community thinks the Kremlin’s hybrid war of subversion and infrastructure assaults threatens to escalate to military action in the Baltic states. The message to Moscow: don’t do it. That was the message to psychotic Putin before the Ukraine attack. It’s likely he’ll bare his bum to the second visit.

Towards the end of the video below is the warning to Europeans to prepare for possible disruption to critical parts of their infrastructure. Stock up for at least four days. We in Australia are not too far away to escape the disruption. We need to act resolutely. But our problem is that the country has been feminised, and thus weakened.

Interview with former MI6 Chief Richard Moore

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This is an excellent, enlightening view of the world of a secret intelligence service. People in the West must know that especially Chinese, Russian and Iranian spies are among them. China wants control and expects all Chinese abroad to gather intelligence – I mean all Chinese. Chinese communities abroad are considered part of China, with their first allegiance to the PRC. The PRC even have their own police stations in some countries in order to keep a check on what they’re up to. The Russians are busy conducting a hybrid warfare against those thwarting their attempts to claim Ukraine.

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For nearly 40 years, Richard Moore was a career spy in the UK’s secret intelligence service. He was unable to tell all but his closest friends and family what he did for a living. When he was appointed chief of MI6 in 2020, that changed: The name of the person in the agency’s top job is the only one made public.
In his first interview since leaving the role in Sept. 2025, Moore talks to The Mishal Husain Show about managing China’s security threat, the psychology of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and why spies shouldn’t expect recognition. See my page on Spycraft and Espionage.