258: The Soft Annexation of the Prairies
A Crimean Playbook for North America
What Russia demonstrated in Crimea was not an invasion in the old sense but a rehearsal for a new kind of power: hybrid war. Identity manipulation, economic dependency, media saturation, legal ambiguity, and the steady erosion of legitimacy. By the time the world realized what was happening, the territory had already changed hands in every way that matt…
