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Smartphones, digital citizens and open secrets in Russia–Ukraine war
Posted By Graeme Dobell on March 14, 2022 @ 06:00
The public is now seeing President Putin as a quite lonely man, a quite vulnerable man. You can see that in his body language. He is increasingly taking personal responsibility for all of the judgments, the mistakes and operations that Russia undertakes, and he will be held accountable for that.
Putin brooks no dissent. But he is becoming more, not less, vulnerable. It’s too hard to speculate on his future just yet, but the emerging trend of personal miscalculation, combined with the loneliness of supreme leadership that he seems to prefer, does not augur well for his future.
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[1] smartphone: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/smartphone-hand-ukraines-president-takes-centre-stage-capital-under-attack-2022-02-26/
[2] sensors: https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2022/01/29/the-technology-of-seeing-and-shooting-your-enemies
[3] digital citizens: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/defence-confronts-the-media-age-part-1/
[4] just war’: https://iep.utm.edu/justwar/
[5] fault: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine
[6] documenting war crimes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jillgoldenziel/2022/02/27/how-to-fight-war-crimes-with-your-smartphone/
[7] standard of evidence: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/researchers-gather-evidence-of-possible-russian-war-crimes-in-ukraine
[8] analyse and explain: https://restofworld.org/2022/osint-viral-ukraine/
[9] investigation: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/03/01/has-vladimir-putin-committed-war-crimes-in-ukraine
[10] monopoly on intelligence: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/08/07/open-source-intelligence-challenges-state-monopolies-on-information
[11] collected and assessed: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/12/us/politics/russia-information-putin-biden.html
[12] US intelligence: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/world/europe/intelligence-putin-biden-ukraine-leverage.html
[13] crushing sanctions: https://www.economist.com/leaders/a-new-age-of-economic-conflict/21807968
[14] never be the same again: https://theconversation.com/putins-biggest-mistake-of-the-ukraine-war-trusting-the-western-financial-system-178635
[15] cannot win: https://samf.substack.com/p/russias-plan-c?s=r
[16] stopped with the truth: https://samf.substack.com/p/giving-peace-a-chance?s=r
[17] on-the-record chat: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/our-foreign-espionage-chief-reveals-what-makes-a-good-spy-20220302-p5a123
[18] murder in uniform: https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/03/05/in-a-resonant-staging-of-henry-v-war-is-murder-in-uniform