Kiev’s “Resistance Operating Concept” Isn’t All That CNN Cracks It Up To Be

While it might sound exotic to casual news consumers, the "Resistance Operating Concept" is really just a combination of special forces missions, the attempted use of Color Revolution technology in the liberated areas of the former Ukraine, and American-amplified propaganda.

CNN published a front-page piece on Saturday about “How Ukraine is using resistance warfare developed by the US to fight back against Russia”, which claims that Kiev is supposedly employing the so-called “Resistance Operating Concept” (ROC) devised by its US patron to impede Russia’s on-the-ground advance. While it might sound exotic to casual news consumers, the ROC is really just a combination of special forces missions, the attempted use of Color Revolution technology in the liberated areas of the former Ukraine, and American-amplified propaganda. It therefore isn’t all that CNN cracks it up to be.

To explain, the article itself spills the beans about what the ROC actually is, but attempts to make it sound like some secret master plan. It isn’t, at all, since everything that it comprises has already been know to those who have even a passing knowledge of the military and political technologies. There’s nothing new about special forces missions, nor in channeling the late Color Revolution mastermind Gene Sharp’s seminal works “From Dictatorship To Democracy” and “There Are Realistic Alternatives” to make it seem like Kiev and its patron have supposedly devised a completely new form of obstructing authorities (in this case the Russian ones in the newly liberated areas) through non-violent means.

The propaganda dimension is the most obvious to all observers though since it’s literally become ubiquitous on legacy and social media. While special forces missions remain in the shadows and nobody even talks about Kiev’s failed use of Color Revolution technology in the liberated areas anymore after it completely fizzled out, everyone sees pro-Kiev/anti-Russian propaganda countless times a day. Some of it is organic but most of it’s artificially manufactured, and much of the former is also directly amplified by the US-led Western Mainstream Media (MSM) as well as US Government-funded “government-organized NGOs” (GONGOs), to say nothing of those trolls who role-play as government agents.

All of these objectively existing and easily verifiable observations naturally prompt the question of why CNN would hype up Kiev’s ROC if it really isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. It of course can’t be known for sure, but it certainly seems as though their primary motive is to manipulate their targeted audience’s perceptions for the purpose of recycling the regularly discredited myth of a “valiant Ukrainian defense”. The timing of this latest propaganda campaign coincides with that crumbling former Soviet Republic failing to regain any of its lost territory despite the arrival of much-ballyhooed “superweapons” like the HIMARS and others earlier this summer.

Although influential MSM outlets like CBS News, CNN itself, and The Guardian – not to mention the equally influential Amnesty International NGO – have recently published unsavory reports about Kiev all throughout August right after the Zelenskys’ tone-deaf Vogue photoshoot offended countless Westerners, they’re still at the end of the day coerced by the US into carrying water for its proxies in order to manage public opinion in the face of indisputable disappointments over the course of NATO’s proxy war on Russia through Ukraine. This explains why CNN, which is one of that declining unipolar hegemon’s global opinion shapers, was tasked with hyping up the ROC.

There’s nothing novel about that concept as was explained in the present piece, but the latest US-provoked phase of the Ukrainian Conflict does indeed have some unique aspects even if they don’t directly concern media or military affairs. Rather, what this proxy war has done is unprecedentedly accelerate the global systemic transition to multipolarity and surprisingly place Russia at the center of these complex processes. That in turn prompted President Putin to unveil his global revolutionary manifesto in late July, which is expected to inspire the entire Global South to rally around his Great Power’s cause of systematically dismantling the US’ already declining unipolar hegemony.

It's this outcome, as well as the Russian leader’s prediction the month prior during the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in mid-June that the Western masses should expect a populist-driven “change of elites” in the coming future, that truly scares the US-led West’s Golden Billion. Those same elites that are at risk of being ousted by their people obviously have a vested interest in distracting them, ergo the need to desperately hype up certain aspects of the Ukrainian Conflict by falsely portraying them as unique successes that haven’t ever been achieved in the history of warfare. Those who know anything about the subject matter, however, won’t fall for this shoddy infowar narrative.

To sum it all up, CNN is simply trying to spin their US patron’s indisputably failed proxy war into a partial victory by attempting to convince their targeted audience that the declining unipolar hegemon’s Eastern European proxies have still somewhat succeeded against Russia in spite of the supposed odds (which were always based on false expectations preemptively seeded by the state into the media in order to manipulate the masses later) even though this isn’t objectively true. The only reason why such an easily discredited narrative is being rolled out at this point of time is because those same proxies are in a lot of trouble, which is becoming increasingly impossible for even the MSM to ignore.