Thread by @andrewsweiss

“Our longstanding rival Russia is exploiting a new playbook to divide us from within and to separate us from our allies” @MarkWarner #GlobalRussia

“Mr. Putin has at his disposal a wide array of nonconventional tools...these are designed to help Russia undermine its enemies in the West....many are deployed by non-state surrogates” @MarkWarner #GlobalRussia

“We are now engaged in a war in the shadows. I am not convinced we are winning” @MarkWarner #GlobalRussia

“We failed to understand the psychic hit that most Russians felt about the loss of superpower status” @MarkWarner #GlobalRussia

“Putin’s chief strategic aim remains squarely targeted on (undermining) the liberal international order....so Russia honed its toolkit for a different form of great power rivalry” @MarkWarner #GlobalRussia

Russia first launched and perfected its new arsenal of deniable assymetric tools in Russia’s neighborhood: Estonia, Georgia, Ukraine “@MarkWarner #GlobalRussia

.@MarkWarner places Russian role in 2016 election within Moscow’s more expansive definition of information warfare. “An election can be swung by a few thousand votes in a specific state” #GlobalRussia

“We are not fully prepared” and haven’t successfully hardened US electoral machinery against the next phase of Russian interference—@MarkWarner #GlobalRussia

“Putin has trolled the US by denying meddling in US elections while allowing the possibility of participation of patriotic Russian hackers”—@MarkWarner #GlobalRussia

Today’s attacks resemble “past Soviet-era active measures, (which) were aimed at undermining Americans’ basic faith in our democratic form of government”— @MarkWarner #GlobalRussia

“Tracking the impact of Russian disinformation is inherently difficult...but it operates like invisible radiation that moves you in the direction the Kremlin wants”—@MarkWarner #GlobalRussia

.@MarkWarner talking about Russian attempts to spur violence between Muslim-Americans and Texas secessionist activists at Houston mosque, compares it to #Charlottesville tragedy #GlobalRussia

.@MarkWarner says making clear that threatening Russian activities in cyberspace and social media didn’t end on Election Day is even more important than identifying whether any Americans cooperated with or supported their efforts #GlobalRussia