“We see the disinformation society in its heyday.” Mario Caligiuri, President of the Italian Intelligence Society and Director of the Masters in Intelligence at the University of Calabria, spoke. His scientific reasoning is based on the debate about the war in Ukraine. Are we fully aware of what is happening and the causes of the conflict? According to the university professor, the answer is no. “Assuming that solving disputes with bombs is unacceptable he says to AGI Putin, he will most likely win the war on the ground, but he already has the loss of information.” Caligiuri quotes Polybius: “Truth is the first casualty of war”. And he frames the story from the perspective of disinformation, since manipulation of reality is an inherent weapon in any conflict. «Public opinion during the First World War he explains was very oriented. Britain organized a campaign to persuade American citizens to enlist them in US intervention in the conflict; The Second World War resulted from blatant acts of disinformation such as the false attack by Polish soldiers on a German post. There was also much discussion about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After World War II, the Cold War was waged through propaganda, cultural influence and thus manipulation of information and espionage ».
Nothing seems to have changed today, on the contrary, the situation has been “perfected” through social media. “Regardless of the story, we find ourselves says Professor Caligiuri in a complete information war, the target of which is people’s minds. This is the ultimate battleground where over sixty percent of the world’s population is connected to the internet and will technically reach one hundred percent by the end of this decade. As early as 1997, the US theorized an information dominance exercised thanks to America’s power in cinema, art, media, information, publishing and even science with universities and Nobel Prize winners. It is well known that the secret services use the world of information and there are many publications in this regard as well as wellknown cases of journalists being bought and paid by the CIA. Unsurprisingly, US intelligence services announced the invasion of Ukraine a few days before February 16, 2022, giving the exact date, which was then pushed back by a week.
It should be noted explains Caligiuri that the Russian one is a leaden painting with poisoned opponents like Aleksandr Litvinenko; arrested politicians like Alexei Navalny; killed journalists like Anna Politkovskaya ». He also emphasizes: “The Kremlin has been involved in the 19th conflict since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Just as it should be remembered that not a day in the world goes by that there are no war deaths, since there are currently dozens and dozens of conflicts active on the planet and there are no more deaths than the others ». In short, everything has to be put in the right context. Beginning with the events that preceded the invasion of Ukraine, predicted by many, which is the consequence of a very complex reality and “which according to Caligiuri cannot be trivialized. Putin is described as insane, illadvised by generals who are said to be planning a blitzkrieg in Ukraine; also opposed by his intelligence and challenged by the square, in the process of being replaced by the will of the oligarchs. It can be like that, but it can also be the opposite. In addition, we have seen he adds false news about the bombing of the Cheronobyl nuclear power plant, improbable and outdated photos, unconfirmed articles ».
