If a country tries to spread fake news about another country or a group of countries, like the EU, what does the other country gain?
In this example, what is the effect if the EU is being destabilized and its people lose faith in it? What does the aggressor gain in this scenario?
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“United we stand, Divided we fall”. -Aesop
Disinformation can do a lot of things that can be entire papers worth of information.
Some examples are sowing division, losing faith in products, or getting populations to vote against certain things. Making an adversary weaker politically, economically or militarily is great.
A divided population that is stuck on infighting is going to be weaker than a unified population working against a common goal. If the population is less concerned on external issues and is more concerned about domestic issues, or believes it’s not worth it to respond to international ones then it helps the international adversaries.
Or in the case for the EU, getting a large, wealthy and powerful member to leave the union will weaken the union.
Losing faith in products. An example I can think of offhand is democratic military spending. Getting a voting population to think “We don’t need that crappy new fighter/ship/submarine/satellite.” Which instead of developing tech to counter it, or having to spend money to counter its deployment they can just kill the project in the voting stage.
Democratic populations are vulnerable to getting votes swayed as well. If a candidate is for policies that would benefit the other country they benefit from helping them get elected.
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