This government document is from 1989. At that time Paul J. Manafort, had been a political consultant and campaign adviser to Presidents Bush and Reagan.
POLITICAL WARFARE and PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS RETHINKING the US APPROACH Edited by FRANK R. BARNETT CARNES LORD 1989 ~ National Defense University Press in cooperation with National Strategy Information Center, Inc. The Kremlin, whose leaders have studied the manipulative arts of Sun Tzu and Pavlov, routinely acts to enervate the national will of opposing states.
each situation of instability is used to probe democracy’s reaction.
One of Leninism’s favorite ploys is to probe with a bayonet until steel is met.
According to the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu, “what is of supreme importance In war is to attack the enemy’s strategy . . . . Next best is to disrupt his alliances . . . .The next best is to attack his army. The worst policy is to attack cities.”
the best security for American democracy is a world network of viable democracies. Despite the short-term disagreements between democracies, in the long run, all democracies must be partners against totalitarianism-and every present democracy needs to understand that
In support of Voice of America:
But in a world wherein falsehood is
aggressively disseminated by advanced technology, is it not
both necessary and moral to propagate the truth with equal
vigor and persistence, even though such structured activity
constitutes a form of propaganda?
According to SUN Tsu; it is of supreme importance to attack ENEMYS Strategy. As u.s. strategy is “democracy”: Enemys of the U.S.would strive to attack or subvert our “democracy”
What evidence do you see of Putin’s success in attacking/subverting our democracy?
What evidence do you see of Putin’s success in attacking/subverting the image of democracy in the
world?
What evidence do you see of Putin’s success in attacking/subverting other democracys in the world?
What evidence do you see of Putin’s success in disrupting/subverting our alliances?
What evidence do you see of Putin’s success in disrupting/subverting our military AND OUR ALLIANCES?
2014
The Russians have perfected to a science; covert political influence operations, active measures, agents of influence placed in foreign governments. We have stopped tracking soviet activities which allowed people to see how their perceptions were being managed. April 21 2014 John Lenczowski CSPAN
2014
Steve Bannon addressing the Vatican via skype. Transcript published by BUZZ FEED:
You know, Putin’s been quite an interesting character. He’s also very, very, very intelligent. I can see this in the United States where he’s playing very strongly to social conservatives about his message about more traditional values, so I think it’s something that we have to be very much on guard of.
Russian elites invested in Trump Buildings
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CBS News March 30, 2017,
“Follow the trail of dead Russians”: Senate hears testimony on “cyber invasion”
But the Kremlin has collected a different return on its effort to help elect Trump in last year’s election: chaos in Washington. The president’s decision to fire FBI Director James B. Comey last week was the latest destabilizing jolt to a core institution of the U.S. government.
‘A very different world’ – inside the Czech spying operation on Trump
The Guardian Mon 29 Oct 2018
Exclusive: files reveal Trump was the target of an extensive spying operation in the late 1980s by the country’s intelligence service, with ‘friends’ from the KGB
The trio walked into the gleaming lobby and took the lift up to the executive floor. Their meeting was with Donald J Trump. For the men from behind the Iron Curtain, Trump was a celebrity capitalist. He was also, we now know, the target of an extensive spying operation conducted by Czechoslovakia’s Státní bezpečnost (StB) intelligence service – together with “friends” from the KGB.
The StB had been interested in Trump since 1977, when he married a Czechoslovakian-born woman, Ivana Zelníčková. News of the wedding reached the StB bureau in Zlín, the town in Moravia where Ivana grew up and where her parents lived. Ivana’s father, Miloš, regularly gave the StB information on his daughter’s visits from the US and his son-in-law’s burgeoning career.
Czechoslovakia ramped up spying on Trump in late 1980s, seeking US intel
Exclusive: aided by Ivana Trump’s father, intelligence service with KGB ties targeted high-level government information, files show
October 29 2018 The Guardian
The communist intelligence service in Prague stepped up its spying campaign against Donald Trump in the late 1980s, targeting him to gain information about the “upper echelons of the US government”, archive files and testimony from former cold war spies reveal.
Czechoslovakia’s Státní bezpečnost (StB) carried out a long-term spying mission against Trump following his marriage in 1977 to his first wife, Ivana Zelníčková. The operation was run out of Zlín, the provincial town in south-west Czechoslovakia where Zelníčková was born and grew up.
Ivana’s father, Miloš Zelníček, gave regular information to the local StB office about his daughter’s visits from the US and on his celebrity son-in-law’s career in New York. Zelníček was classified as a “conspiratorial” informer. His relationship with the StB lasted until the end of the communist regime.
New archive records obtained by the Guardian and the Czech magazine Respekt show the StB’s growing interest in Trump after the 1988 US presidential election, won by George HW Bush. The StB’s first directorate responsible for foreign espionage sought to “deepen” its Trump-related activity.
A former StB official, Vlastimil Daněk – tracked down to the village of Zadní Arnoštov, where he lives in retirement – confirmed the Trump operation. Addressing the matter publicly for the first time, he said: “Trump was of course a very interesting person for us. He was a businessman, he had a lot of contacts, even in US politics.
“We were focusing on him, we knew he was influential. We had information that he wanted to be president in future.”
White house Counsel Ty Cobb: “I don’t think it’s a witch hunt.”
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Dutch secret service provided crucial intelligence on Russian interference with American elections
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Carter Page Touted Kremlin Contacts in 2013 Letter Time Feb 4 2018
February 2018:
Six Top Intelligence Officials Warn Russians Are Targeting 2018 Midterm Elections
Federal vote-protection efforts lag ahead of first primaries
Russia is attacking American democracy, and Trump stays silent – Chicago Tribune Feb 13 2018
Special Counsel Issues Indictment Against 13 Russian Nationals Over 2016 Election
By SHARON LaFRANIERE FEB. 16, 2018
Feb 16, 2018
Russian disinformation distorts American and European democracy The Mueller indictment reveals some of the Kremlin’s tactics
February 22 2018
Trump Falsely Claims, ‘I Never Said Russia Did Not Meddle’ FEB. 18, 2018
Former CIA chief Michael Hayden sounds off on the Russia investigation and President Trump’s potential complicity. By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
Feb 28 2018
Mark Warner Warns of New Cold War With Russia
Top Democrat on Intelligence panel says West is falling behind
Britain warned Russia on Tuesday of a robust response if the Kremlin was behind a mysterious illness that has struck down a former double agent convicted of betraying dozens of spies to British intelligence. MARCH 6 2018
March 6, 2018 / From polonium to a poisoned umbrella – mysterious fates of Kremlin foes
March 12,2018
Britain’s May wins backing of Trump, EU leaders in showdown with Russia
Why Did Trump Fire Tillerson Now? The specific timing of the move—following the secretary of state’s split from the president to condemn a Russian attack in the U.K.—raises questions about its motive.
Mar 13, 2018
March 14 2018
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March 15, 2018
Key Senate committee concludes Russian interference; calls for voting reforms
March 20, 2018
Mueller probing Russia contacts at Republican convention: sources
March 29 2018
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Special counsel eyeing Russians granted unusual access to Trump inauguration parties June 28 2018
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Ahead of summit, Trump finds new ways to help Putin’s Russia
July 3 2018
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Malcolm Nance: ‘The Republican Party Has Surrendered To Russia’ July 5 2018
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“It took a long time for Washington to get that idea, but it got there in the end.”
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Trump’s business career is more connected to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy than we ever knew. The son of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was leading a real-estate division of Deutsche Bank as it gave President Donald Trump over $1 billion in loans to finance his real-estate projects when other banks wouldn’t, The New York Times reported Thursday.
Follow the Money Citizens United = Russian Money in American Campaigns
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Judge to Manafort: Don’t Worry, the Jail You’re Going to Knows How to Handle Terrorists, Traitors and Spies
Warner demands no one-on-one for Putin-Trump Friday, July 13, 2018
‘The Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again’
Asked what he would tell Putin, face to face, Coats said, “My message would be, We know what you’re doing, and we know you know what you’re doing and what we’re doing. If your goal is to strengthen Russia in the proper way, we can cooperate with you. But if you want to stay in this tit-for-tat, we’re going to beat you.”
July 14 2018
Mueller indicts 12 Russian intel officers for hacking Democrats in 2016 election
July 15 2018 Adam Schiff: Putin an unindicted co-conspirator
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July 16 2018
Federal authorities have arrested a Russian woman accused of conspiring to infiltrate American political organizations, including a gun-rights group, at the direction of a senior Kremlin official.
Butina worked on behalf of an unnamed Russian official to influence senior U.S. politicians and develop relationships with other political organizations between 2015 and 2017.
Shock as Trump backs Putin on election meddling at summit
July 15 2018
Trump ‘Parroted’ Putin Talking Points, Carpenter Says
President Trump: Dont be Putins Puppet July 16 2018
Is Donald Trump committing treason? JULY 16 2018
Ex-CIA chief Brennan: Trump’s comments nothing short of treasonous
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John McCain: Trump abased himself before a tyrant JULY 16 2018
The Trump-Putin meeting reveals how Trump is killing American power. July 16 2018
John Brennan: President Donald Trump Is Giving Aid, Comfort To The Enemy JULY 17 2018
Ret. Lt. Colonel: Trump Is ‘Actively Betraying Our Country’ JULY 17 20018
GOP lawmaker: Trump manipulated by Russian intel
Fmr. CIA Director: Speaking Out To ‘Shake Some Sense’ Into People Around Trump | MTP Daily | MSNBC July 18 2018
TREASON:
Actions may assume the form of oral pronouncements. The utterance of words frequently constitutes a crime. For example,to advocate the overthrow of the government by force and violence, to urge some one to commit a crime, to disseminate obscene literature, to foment a riot, are all criminal offenses, even if they are committed merely by verbal statements.
Words uttered with intent to betray one’s country may well constitute treason. For instance, to deliver valuable secret information to the enemy by word of mouth is treason. It is a fallacy to contend that to constitute treason there must be some act other than the utterance of words.
To traffic with the enemy and to accept employment from the enemy for the purpose of preparing speeches to be used in a program of psychological warfare designed by the enemy to weaken the power of the United States to wage war successfully, is treasonable conduct. It is not protected by the First Amendment. Acting as a radio commentator, as the defendant did in this case, for the purpose of spreading and disseminating proenemy propaganda, constitutes treason. United States v. Burgman, 87 F.Supp. 568 (D.D.C., 1949)
Maria Butina Case Bolsters Understanding of ‘Infiltration’ In Russian 2016 Attack
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Indicted Russian Company Relentlessly Trolls Mueller by Invoking Kavanaugh
Bluman v. Fed. Election Comm’n. This case ultimately narrowed the scope of the ban on foreign nationals to exclude “issue advocacy.” Kavanaugh wrote [emphasis in original]:
“[W]e caution the government that seeking criminal penalties for violations of [laws regulating foreign nationals’ political contributions or expenditures] will require proof of defendant’s knowledge of the law…There are many aliens in this country who no doubt are unaware of the statutory ban on foreign expenditures…
As Campaign Legal Center’s Brendan Fischer noted, Kavanaugh’s opinion did some very heavy lifting to narrow said scope:
in Bluman, Kavanaugh went out of his way to narrow the foreign national ban to apply only to “spending money in order to expressly advocate for or against the election of a candidate.”
That excludes much of Russia’s spending–and Russia’s lawyers picked up on it: pic.twitter.com/wsck3fGYcI
— Brendan Fischer (@brendan_fischer) July 17, 2018
GOP Refuses to Hold Trump Accountable on Russia: A Closer Look July 19 218
GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick: ‘The President Was Manipulated By Vladimir Putin’July 22, 2018
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President Trump attempted to discredit the media saying “what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.” July 24 20018 Jake Tapper
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President Donald Trump Criticizes NBC News Report And Reporter Reacts July 25 2018
Exclusive: White House stops announcing calls with foreign leaders
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The Russian mob first ‘made its move’ on Trump when he was hemorrhaging money in 2002 August 2 2018
FBI Director Christopher Wray issued the following statement during a press briefing at the White House. (Remarks prepared for delivery.)
Good afternoon.
Last fall, shortly after I became Director, we established a new Foreign Influence Task Force to identify and counteract the full range of malign foreign influence operations targeting our democratic institutions and our values. The task force now brings together the FBI’s expertise across the waterfront—counterintelligence, cyber, criminal, and even counterterrorism—to root out and respond to foreign influence operations.
For their part, our adversaries’ influence operations have encompassed a wide range of activities. A few examples include:
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Targeting U.S. officials and other U.S. persons through traditional intelligence tradecraft
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Criminal efforts to suppress voting and provide illegal campaign financing
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Cyber attacks against voting infrastructure, along with computer intrusions targeting elected officials and others
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And a whole slew of other kinds of influence, like both overtly and covertly manipulating news stories, spreading disinformation, leveraging economic resources, and escalating divisive issues.
- Former director of the CIA John Brennan responds to Trump revoking his security clearance August 15 2018
Fmr. Acting CIA Dir.: President Donald Trump Is Attempting To ‘Muzzle Free Speech’ | All In | MSNBC
August 15 2018 The CIA’s former Acting CIA Director, John McLaughlin, says he looked at President Trump’s 26-page executive directive to revoke a security clearance and none of its 13 listed reasons match up to what the White House said on John Brennan.
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August 16 2018
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Leon Panetta warns revoking clearances used as “political tool” by Trump August 19 2018
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Russia Braces for Impact from US Sanctions VOA August 22 2018
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Watergate Prosecutor Hits Trump: ‘The President Is An Unindicted Co-Conspirator’ August 22 2018
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August 24 2018
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Study: Russian trolls stoked US vaccine debates August 25 2018
“Putin is getting inside help on his mission to highlight shortcomings in US Democracy every time the President issues a tweet like he did this morning”
US Navy Revives 2nd Fleet to Counter Russia in North Atlantic VOA August 25 2018
Russian politician on McCain: The enemy is dead August 27 2018
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Trump presses Supreme Court chief justice for action on Russia dossier August 29 2018
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Washington lobbyist W. Samuel Patten pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered foreign lobbyist, and admitted to lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee and funneling a Ukrainian oligarch’s money to Donald Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee. August 31 2018
NYT: US tried to ‘flip’ Russian billionaire
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How Brett Kavanaugh Made Russian Election Interference Easier and Robert Mueller’s Job Harder
The Supreme Court nominee gutted part of a law that prevented foreign influence in US elections.
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September 11 2018…
Rudy Giuliani admits Trump’s lawyers have a confidential backchannel to Paul Manafort Sept 13 2018
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What is Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency? Oct 5 2018
What are the GRU’s capabilities?
According to a Western assessment of GRU seen by Reuters, the GRU has a long-running program to run ‘illegal’ spies – those who work without diplomatic cover and who live under an assumed identity for years until orders from Moscow.
“It has a long-running program of ‘illegals’ reserved for the most sensitive or deniable tasks across the spectrum of GRU operations,” the assessment said.
The GRU is seen as a major Russian cyber player.
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Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society (Complete)Yuri Bezmenov:
KGB Officer Explains Russian/NWO Agenda For “Amerika”
Wed Jun 3, 2009 13:55
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Synopsis: G. Edward Griffin interviews Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov on the 4 step program of demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization used by the KGB to subvert nations. This interview was conducted in 1985 but has only recently been re-highlighted. Yuri explains why people cannot recognize truth when presented to them and why America has difficulty resisting a Socialist agenda.
Transcript of interviewSelected portions:
Ideological subversion is the process which is [a] legitimate, old word, and open. You can see it with your own eyes. All American mass media has to do is to “unplug bananas” from their ears, open up their eyes, and they can see it.
…in reality the main emphasis of the KGB [ ]…According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, [ ] about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare.What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
Comment: Fake news, misinformation, disinformation, fox news etc.When you cannot separate truth from fiction you are unable to draw conclusions with conviction and you are not sure what you know.Different realities create division and confusionWhen you do not know with certainty what the facts are you are unlikely to act. Thus you are prevented from taking action.
Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion.(site comment: Religious Leaders, Rupert Murdock Roger Ailes, and many others )Publishers, editors, journalists,uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science.Members of (site comment: House of Rep, Senate )parliament, representatives of business circles. Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups: those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation; [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution
Same way as in a small town of Hua in South Vietnam; several thousands of Vietnamese were executed in one night when the city was captured by [the] Viet Cong for only two days; and American CIA could never figure out – how could [the communists] possibly know each Individual, where he lives, where to get him; and [in order that they] would be arrested in one night basically in four hours before dawn, put on a van, driven out of the city limits and shot.
The answer is very simple. Long before communists occupy the city, there was extensive network of informers; local Vietnamese citizens who knew absolutely everything about people who are instrumental in public opinion – including Barbers and Taxi Drivers. Everyone who was sympathetic to United States was executed. Same thing was done under the guidance of the Soviet Embassy in Hanoi, and same thing I was doing in New Delhi. To my horror, I discovered that in the files were people who were doomed to execution. There were names of pro-Soviet Journalists, with whom I was personally friendly.
…the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of Soviet or Communist or Socialist or whatever system; when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point, “never bother with leftists, forget about these political prostitutes – aim higher” this was my instruction. Try to get into, uh, large circulation, established conservative media.
Site Comment:
You know, Putin’s been quite an interesting character. He’s also very, very, very intelligent. I can see this in the United States where he’s playing very strongly to social conservatives about his message about more traditional values, so I think it’s something that we have to be very much on guard of.
Steve Bannon 2014
racism in the far right gets “washed out”
Steve Bannon thinking of manipulation using racism and racists since 2014
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:…they serve purpose only [up] to the stage of destabilization of a nation. When the job is completed, they are not needed anymore. They know too much. Some of them, [] get disillusioned – when they see that Marxist-Leninist come to power. Obviously they get offended;…they think that THEY will come to power. That will never happen, of course; they will be lined up against the wall and shot.
The result? The result you can see — most of the people who graduated in the 60’s, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them. You can’t get rid of to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. In other words [for] these people the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible
And yet these people who have been programmed and as you say [are] in place and who are favorable to an opening with the Soviet concept [meaning NEW WORLD ORDER]- these are the very people who would be marked for extermination in this country?
YURI BEZMENOV:
Most of them, yes. Simply because the psychological shock when they will see in [the] future what the beautiful society of EQUALITY and social justice means in practice, obviously they will revolt. They will be very unhappy [and] frustrated people, and Marxist Leninist regime does not tolerate these people. Obviously they will join the [ranks] of dissenters; dissidents. Unlike the present [1984] United States there will be no place for dissent in future Marxist-Leninist America. [Now] you can get popular like Daniel Ellsberg and filthy rich like Jane Fonda for being a dissident [and] for criticizing your Pentagon. In [the] future these people will simply be [he makes a squishy noise] squashed like cockroaches for criticizing the government. Nobody is going to pay them nothing for their beautiful [and] noble ideas of EQUALITY. This they don’t understand and it will be the greatest shock for them, of course.
The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years. Actually, it’s over fulfilled because demoralization now reaches such areas where not even Comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such tremendous success.
Putin hails the fall of United States as a moral leader around the globe in annual speech Oct 18 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin used his annual address to hail the end of the United States’ influence on the world. According to a write-up from the Financial Times, Putin told his country “luckily this monopoly is disappearing. It’s almost done.”
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards.
FROM THE WEEKLEY STANDARD: Conservative support for an American foreign policy that seeks to encourage and defend democratic change in other countries—once a mainstay within the GOP—is now up for debate.
“Demoskepticism” does not yet prevail among Republicans in Congress, nor among neoconservatives. But it is a growing phenomenon among conservative writers and this shift is a sign that the Trump presidency is reshaping foreign policy thinking on the right.
Some conservatives now dismiss policies that are infused with democratic values. Chris Buskirk, the publisher and editor of American Greatness, condemns pro-democracy foreign policy as a reflection of American “moral imperialism.” Others have identified certain antid-emocratic rulers as conservative kindred spirits—excusing their acts of repression, praising their leadership qualities, even fawning over their roughshod tactics.
At the top of this list of favored despots is Vladimir Putin. Some praise him as a kind of man’s man among world leaders. Matt Drudge hailed Putin as the “leader of the free world.” Rudy Giuliani described Putin as someone who “makes a decision and he executes it, quickly. And then everybody reacts. That’s what you call a leader.”
Another group, consisting primarily of Christian social conservatives, has lauded Putin for his close ties to the Russian Orthodox Church, his denunciation of a morally corrupt Europe, and his crackdown on Russian LGBT activists. In response to Russia’s adoption of a law banning “gay propaganda,” Franklin Graham hailed Putin for protecting “his nation’s children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda.”
American conservatives are not Putin’s only admirers in the world’s leading democracies. He is widely revered by European populists and radicals on both ends of the political spectrum, who cheer his hostility toward the European Union and his anti-Americanism.
But for conservatives in this country, an embrace of Putin means setting aside basic principles, including representative government, freedom of speech, equality before the law, and the proposition that history should be written by historians, not the state. None of these fundamental tenets of democracy is respected in Putin’s Russia.
Domestic abuses during his tenure have run the gamut, encompassing the assassination of political opponents and journalists, rigged elections, persecution of religious minorities, show trials in kangaroo courts, the rehabilitation of Joseph Stalin in state propaganda, and the arbitrary seizure of billions of dollars in assets from private businesses as part of a kleptocracy. (It’s fun to contemplate how Trump-supporters can make excuses for Putin while simultaneously decrying the the supposedly-outlaw Mueller investigation.)
On the global stage, Putin’s record is similarly unambiguous. He has invaded foreign countries to grab their territory, and provided critical military and diplomatic support for some of the world’s most odious regimes. Admiration of the Russian leader requires American conservatives to ignore the many instances in which his government has undermined American interests, menaced the United States’ democratic allies, and interfered in the workings of American democracy.
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued: As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore.
A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures.
Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him the concentration camps…he will refuse to believe it…. until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom. When the military boot crashes – then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.
The next stage is destabilization….this time, subverter does not care about your ideas and the patterns of your consumption. Whether you eat junk food and get fat and flabby doesn’t matter any more. It only takes 2 to 5 years to destabilize a nation.This time what matters is essentials1) Manipulating and Extorting Degrading communications outlets: (added)
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Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:
2) economy,
(running up vast amount of debt)
Seeing red: US deficit jumps $779 billion, adding budget pressure 10-19-2018
Disrupting and changing trade alliances, Trade war with chinaTrump’s trade war with China will affect all of us – this is howThe idea that one can limit the domestic economic impact of tariffs by carving out exemptions for certain popular or sensitive products is naïve in the extreme Ben Chu
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:3)foreign relations,Disrupting NATOAttacking and weakening United Nations(Pulling out of treaties and disrupting trade agreements, acting like a bully and irritating our friends, bringing into question our reliability, weakening our allies)
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:4) defense systems.(withdraw from Treaties Iran Neuclear treaty) Disrupting and weakening Nato,), United Natiions.
‘Nearly All’ of the Pentagon’s New Weapons Systems Are Vulnerable to Hacking
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Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:And you can see it quite clearly that in some… sensitive areas such as defense and [the] economy, the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideas in the United States is absolutely fantastic. I could never believe it 14 years ago when I landed in this part of the world that the process will go that fast.
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:
The next stage of course is crisis, which may take only up to 6 weeks to bring a country to the verge of crisis. You can see it in Central America now; and after crisis, with the violent change of power structure and economy, you have the period of so called “normalization” [which] it may last indefinitely.
Normalization is a cynical expression, borrower from Soviet Propaganda. When the Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia in 1968, comrade Brezhnev said “Now the situation in brotherly Czechoslovakia is normalized”.
This is what will happen in [the] United States if you allow all the shmucks to bring the country to crisis.
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:
To promise people all kinds of goodies,
and the paradise on Earth.
Uh to destabilize your economy to eliminate the principal of free market competition; and to put a big brother government in Washington D.C.; with benevolent dictators….
who will promise lots of things – Never mind whether the promises are fulfilled or not. He [the dictator] will go to Moscow to kiss the bottoms of a new generation of Soviet Assassins.
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Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:
Never mind [nothing to see here, move along], he will create false illusions that the situation is under control. Situation is NOT under control. Situation is disgustingly out of control.
Most of the American politicians, media, and educational system train another generation of people who think they are living at the peacetime. False.
United States is in a state of war; undeclared, total war against the basic principles and foundations of this system. And the initiator of this war is not Comrade Andropov of course – it’s the system. However, ridiculous it may sound, [it is] the world Communist system, or the world Communist conspiracy.
Whether I scare some people or not, I don’t give a hoot. If you’re not scared by now, nothing can scare you. You don’t have to be paranoid about it. What actually happens now; that unlike myself, you have literally several years to live on unless United States wake up. The time bomb is ticking. With every second the disaster is coming closer. Unlike myself, you will have nowhere to defect to, unless you want to live in Antarctica with penguins. This is it, this is the last country with freedom and possibility.
ED GRIFFIN:
Okay, so what do we do? What is your recommendation to the American people?YURI BEZMENOV:
Well, the immediate thing that comes to mind is, of course, there must be a very strong national effort to educate people in the spirit of REAL patriotism, number one. Number two, to explain [to] them the real danger of socialist, communist, welfare state, Big Brother government. If people fail to grasp the impending danger; nothing ever will help the United States. You may kiss goodbye your freedoms, including [sending] homosexuals to prison inmate. All this freedom will vanish in 5 seconds – including your precious lives.
The moment at least part of [the] United States population is convinced that the danger is real, they have to FORCE their government, and I’m not talking about sending letters, signing petitions, and all this beautiful, noble activity, I’m talking about FORCING [the] United States government to stop aiding Communism….
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Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”[1] – Russian President Vladimir Putin, 2017.
“A people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.”[2] – Hannah Arendt, 1978
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