“…you don’t want to. You have to.”
That is how I started one of my morning awakenings. Without concentrating at all on my feelings and perceptions, I discovered that with this metaphor, I had started a new turn in my life – a turn in which my world view, my cognition, and even my holiday, simply put, everything that I considered extremely mine – all of it is now secretly connected to the words troops, border, invasion. In addition, with the bitterness of conscious internal rhetoric, I have come to think that here it is, hybrid warfare.
Two years ago, I wrote an article about hybrid warfare in Ukraine. Then, after finishing the last sentence, I concluded that what was happening in Ukraine at the time was nothing more than the first fruits of a hybrid war that had been identified and manifested in 2014 but had a place to multiply and infiltrate much earlier.
And what? I mentally stated to myself that even with such a caring attitude towards the information space of my country, I had become a “hybrid offshoot”. My mind told me clearly that the plans were now totally wrong, in the wrong place and possibly even with the wrong people. Frantically, my thoughts brought me back to the words of my nephew, who enjoyed his holiday in Odessa very much. A child’s semi-anxious understanding of war and the question: “… we will not rest there?” and my naive answer is that do not be sad, we will go to Uncle Erdogan’s. I told the kid nonsense.
I realized with pain that I was unprepared to evacuate. “There’s nowhere to run, either,” my inside voice supported my desperate state.
Then, my thoughts filled with the deep worry that the children were sick to Omicron. Moreover, quite sad I could not be calm and balanced now, but I should be.
Well, you say a lot of rhetoric, but where is the salt of the truth? To summarize, I can say in the affirmative:
– HYBRID TECHNOLOGIES destroy inner resilience and undermine self-confidence. In place of inner strength and attitude towards oneself, there is a vague sense of apathy, homesickness, a failure of forecasting and planning, forgetfulness and non-acceptance, and an increase in conflict with no cause.
– HYBRID SPEAKERS!!! Waiting for their master, discharging into emotionally sadistic rhetoric, devaluing all that is their sold-out and oversold homeland. They have fully established themselves in their primitiveness and voluptuousness towards others, dissenters.
– INFORMATION ATTACKS project the excitement of the most effective mechanism of human unconscious thinking – childlike faith – in which, like a mirror, all childhood unfulfilled hopes rise, clinging to the information-human mud, filling the mix with feelings, reactions, chaotic actions, and leading to the imagined fulfilment of all the inner evils of everyone. From buying tons of buckwheat and, ending with pointless real estate purchases where you never planned to have it.
– HYBRID PLANS, constantly displaying something uncontrollable and demanding some sort of momentary decision and action. Sowing panic and fear. And lastly. Fooled by all this, WE, living in the epicentre of a country that is on the cover of every publication in the world, are experiencing an incomprehensible drive that people worldwide noticed us, people have started talking about us. And we are experiencing the universal emptiness that we, and not they, need to do something and that it is not their children who are asking whether Odessa will be taken away from us, but their rulers are doing one thing – debating whether to support this little patch of a maddened universe.
Well, trying to disconnect hybrid warfare from one’s inner world, in which losing to oneself is very likely, is one of the most effective mechanisms of self-preservation, but not available to everyone…
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