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   #Russia2012 #SurkovWon #SurkovWonBig

   A decade ago, Mitt Romney went on CNN and made a statement that was widely perceived as a major mistake. “Russia, this is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe,” Romney, who would be the Republican presidential nominee in the 2012 race against President Barack Obama, told Wolf Blitzer in March of that year. “They — they fight every cause for the world’s worst actors.”

   Sunday February 27, 2022

   https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/politics/mitt-romney-russia-ukraine/index.html

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     #CrisisInUnderstanding "Understanding the Crisis in Understanding" #FWakeObama

     “It’s something I grappled with a lot during my presidency, I saw it sort of unfold, and that is the degree to which information — disinformation, misinformation — was being weaponized and we saw it,” Obama told Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg in an interview. “But I think I underestimated the degree to which democracies were as vulnerable to it as they were, including ours.”

     April 7, 2022

     https://cyberscoop.com/obama-says-underestimated-threats-posed-disinformation/