Commentary
Security
America’s New Cold War: Europe Faces a Stark Choice – COMMENTARY
15 April 2025
26 May 2020
How to build a country’s resilience when your own government is spreading foreign disinformation? Hungary is a unique case in point to discuss what steps can be taken.
Although the phenomenon of foreign-led disinformation has existed for almost a century, there is no single solution to counter it, due to the very nature of this method – and will probably never be.
Instead of trying to find a magic recipe, we should rather strive to prepare members of the public, government, defence and security agencies, journalists and others to be less vulnerable to such disinformation and to build up the resilience of society.
Disinformation targeting other countries was widely used by the Soviet Union and in recent years was reinvented as a primary foreign policy tool by Vladimir Putin. Hence, the very term “disinformation” is often associated with Russia.