Re: The Mandy Rice-Davies Proactive Defence
I have just come across the concept of the Overton Window*, which describes the range of policies people will accept as reasonable. More importantly, it describes how this can be manipulated by putting forward unacceptable ideas and then dialling back to something that would have been unacceptable if put forward initially, but which now seems reasonable in comparison (like negotiating a price, I suppose). I can't help thinking that, if the Russians are manipulating elections to get unacceptable results, they would than have a plan to offer "reasonable" results later. Just because the West had forgotten how to play long games, don't think others have (see also China).
*https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/politics/overton-window-democrats.html, amongst many sources.
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