“He Must Have Got This From K.”

How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence

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Concepts from Soviet military and intelligence doctrine have a bad habit of degenerating into American buzzwords, if not cliches, especially in the Age of Trump. Disinformation, which has a very specific meaning and is a powerful and relevant tool in the right hands, has, through overuse and politicization, come to mean in th…