Even bad faith can be hybrid

Either they twist his words or portray him as the ‘boom, boom’ minister. Guido Crosetto spoke of hybrid warfare, but he never mentioned Russian interference in the demonstrations and never attributed responsibility for those protests to Russia. Each time Crosetto sounds the alarm—even within the government—one of his colleagues distorts his words to spread propaganda and spout nonsense about peace with Putin and purchases of Russian gas. Hybrid warfare, however, is something that goes beyond Cyrillic bots. For Crosetto, it is a way of steering public sentiment and influencing how people interpret reality. All it took was for the Defence Minister to mention hybrid warfare for his warning to be spun into an attack by Crosetto on Putin. Obviously, failing to correct a flawed interpretation ends up validating it, confirming that even bad faith can be hybrid.