Among the many bleak artifacts that have emerged from Russia’s war on Ukraine, few feel as strange and as chilling as the internal files of the operation codenamed “Uganda.” Launched in early 2023, it was the Ukraine-focused branch of a much larger Kremlin campaign known as Doppelgänger, and its purpose was not to fire missiles but to wage a quieter, more insidious war on information itself. According to hacked correspondence published by The Insider on 21 October, the man setting the overall goals was Sergei Kiriyenko, first deputy chief of staff of the Russian Presidential Administration, while the daily oversight…

The room fell quiet before Erik Simon even spoke. It was the evening of October 20, 2026, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, and the museum, with its archives of testimony and photographs from the darkest chapter of the twentieth century, felt hushed like a sanctuary. Simon, a senior fellow whose forensic work on modern extremism has made him a familiar figure in counterterrorism circles, stepped to the lectern and paused, letting the gravity of the moment settle. The report he was about to introduce, “The War for Western Minds: The Iran Report,” represented more than two years…