Andrew Korybko draws some useful conclusions from watching the information war being conducted by the West against Russia:

“The average Westerner is practically incapable of ever recovering from the incessant narrative-psychological operations that they’re exposed to by their governments and their media allies, yet the non-West is much more open-minded and neutral.”

and

“The Global South is therefore the real cognitive battleground so to speak of the New Cold War, not the West or Russia. That’s because most of the governments representing this majority of humanity mostly practice a policy of principled neutrality towards the Ukrainian Conflict.”

I am not as sanguine as he is about the Global South, only because the West is already here poisoning the information space with its fact-checking websites.

These self-appointed fact-checkers have a fixed set of priorities: agree with climate catastrophe and you are pro-science and fact-based; demand mass vaccinations and you are pro-science and humane; disagree and you are unreliable, anti-science, a conspiracist and most-likely also a holocaust denier, only waiting to trot out the sieg heil, the Nazi cry permissible only to Ukrainians willing to be cannon-fodder for NATO].