Published on, Sept. 3 -- September 3, 2025 2:19 AM

Let me explain the topic first, before people dismiss it as a social media lesson. The famous phrase TikTok, a popular entertainment app introduced by China, and used around the world, came into play in the strategic literature when Kyle Chayka published an article Watching the World's First TikTok War," in the New Yorker on March 3, 2022. Perhaps, because social media was bombarded with short videos of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the people who fled the war zones to nearby European borders took these images and uploaded them to tell the world about what was happening there.

Hence, another hybrid war ended up using kinetic applications because, from Russia'...