Mocarstwa atomowe też przegrywają wojny! Starcie w domenie kognitywnej – rosyjski szantaż atomowy a szanse na zwycięstwa Ukrainy
- Institution: Instytut Bezpieczeństwa i Rozwoju Międzynarodowego
- Year of publication: 2024
- Source: Show
- Pages: 141-151
- DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/npw20244211
- PDF: npw/42/npw4211.pdf
Nuclear powers are losing wars too! Clash in the cognitive domain – Russian nuclear blackmail vs. Ukraine’s chances of victory
The clash conducted in the cognitive domain is aimed at influencing the will, determination, coherence of decision-making centers and threat assessment, at the level of individuals, groups and entire societies. Freedom of speech and multicentricity, make democratic societies more vulnerable to influence in the cognitive domain. Strategic signaling of nuclear readiness plays a special role among the leverage tools used by the Russian Federation. The interests of Western states have been and continue to be violated by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. At the same time, the potential of Western states exceeds Russian potential many times over in a number of areas. Russia can count on a favorable resolution of the conflict for itself due to a calculation that takes into account the effective disruption of Western unity and determination to support a belligerent Ukraine, an element of which is the aforementioned threat of Russia’s use of nuclear weapons.