suzanne raine is from the centre for geopolitics at the university of cambridge. and, suzanne, you also worked in the foreign office for over 20 years. in terms of what these three states want to deliver within their countries, how does their generation of disinformation, and also their imposition of censorship, help them pursue those goals? well, who wouldn't want to rule a country with no opposition? i mean, it's a no—brainer. if you can get rid of the opposition, you would do. but there's a cost to that. it's costing time and resource to suppress your political opponents, and that's resource which could be spent on governing the country better. it's also doing something really sort of insidious when you're sealing off your country from outside because it immediately triggers an interventionist response among people in the west who think human rights are being abused. and i think the third observation i'd make at the very beginning is it's economically very unhealthy because states need foreign investment, generally, it's accepted. but if you demonstrate that