it's depressing that Molly McKew has been allowed to launder her fraudulent expertise through my own academic institution
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I curse myself for falling down this rabbit hole at 2 in the morning but it's odd that her name isn't listed anywhere in the catalog in relation to the course, there's no website or syllabus either
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anyway, to sum up: 1) McKew is about as qualified to teach a class on Russian hybrid warfare as any given content mill click farmer. Her one contribution to the "literature," the so-called Gerasimov Doctrine, has been repeatedly debunked as a paranoid chimera
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(she did not invent the concept but she leveraged it into fifty thousand articles and speaking gigs by misinterpreting it in the most tendentious way possible)
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2) she has a habit of smearing people on the basis of national origin, among other incredibly flimsy pretexts 3) she habitually acts as an agent of foreign governments without revealing this status. right now she appears to be on the payroll of the Estonian government
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4) a student who takes her class will not know which of her ideas are truth, which are credible suppositions, and which are complete fabrications. her fantasies about an imminent Russo-Estonian War are only the latest in a long career of unhinged fearmongering.
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If you're reading this thread, you might be interested in an event tonight at Politics and Prose Union Market: I'll be talking with Tony Wood, author of the excellent RUSSIA WITHOUT PUTIN. https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/tony-wood-russia-without-putin-money-power-and-myths-of-new-cold-war-in-conversation …
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(I have been informed by a credible source that McKew is not in fact employed by the Estonian government, despite appearances. Mea culpa.)
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in case you've arrived at this thread from the Hoya article, please see my full comments here:https://twitter.com/athenogenes/status/1089897555633364993?s=19 …
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she was an avid spreader of the bs crap doctrine, but she didn't invented. she's just an amplifier, like many more.
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