A review by tativv
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth

challenging dark informative reflective tense slow-paced

2.0

I can barely imagine the extensive research behind this book. Together with great storytelling it had humongous potential, but unfortunately Perlroth is guilty of what so many other US writers are - complete lack of objectivity, orientalization of whomever does not come from US as well as constant collonial thinking. Only the US has good and bad people, other countries have one-two people representing them all. Every tiny little thing Perlroth does not know from US gets specific stress in the storytelling, no matter how stereotyping, biased and unimportant it is. She uses very different language speaking of other countries "they are meddling with our elections" whilst using very sterile language when the US "targets" other countries. Do US writers acknowledge that only because they have troubles understanding other languages/cultures it does not apply vice versa?! I could continue like that on and on and thats why its a generous 2/5 from me. Greetings from Europe.