Exposing the Hybrid Psychological War Behind Defendant Trump & MAGA Cult
American pundits & legacy media need to get serious about the threat level & existential cultural crisis 💀 ♞♘
Hybrid War for the Minds & Future of America (“Active Measures”)
Putin & Kremlin are INSIDE the House (of MAGA)
From Texas to Ukraine, from Middle East to Africa, we are facing the geopolitical game played by the old KGB playbook—and again and again, the Western democracies are blind to it. Insanity is repeating the same action and expect a different result… Thread on hybrid war, guest history exposé by Zarina Zabrisky
Since 1999, a criminal government, headed by Putin, runs Russia as a mafia state. By 2018, a conglomerate of officials, security forces and organized crime has consolidated power and took under control all aspects of political and social life.
Its wealth generates from appropriating the national natural resources, mainly oil, gas and diamonds, as well as the major assets. Each year, the Kremlin siphoned out of Russia, laundered and stored in the Western banks and offshores an estimated 40–50 billion dollars.
Since 2014, motivated by the need to protect these assets, the Kremlin has been waging a hybrid war against the Western democracies, openly speaking about establishing “a new, Post-West world order.”
The West needs to acknowledge the threat, run research and training programs to understand the Kremlin’s strategy and take an immediate action by developing and implementing a united response to the attack.
The long-term goal of the Kremlin hybrid war: the expansion of the Russian economic and geopolitical interests as a guarantee of the personal wealth and power of Putin and his allies. “…not a shooting war, a war of geopolitics and trying to undermine our systems,” - Dr. Galeotti
The Kremlin’s short-term goals include: 1. Weakening and dissolution of the EU and NATO 2. Removal of the economic sanctions against Russia 3. Destabilization of the US 4. Normalization of the military intervention in Ukraine and Syria
By 2018, the Kremlin has built a strong network of agents of influence and weaponized all aspects of the political, economic and cultural life in the US:
→political system (In 2018, special counsel Robert Mueller charged 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities with an illegal “information warfare” scheme to disrupt the 2016 presidential election and assist the candidacy of Donald Trump….
…Other means of undermining the political system include bribing, recruiting, blackmailing and manipulating Senators, Congressmen and local politicians; donations to parties, using “Manchurian candidate” model; lobbying; sending “phishing” emails to officials…
… hacking election system; supporting political parties, leaders, social movements, including separatists, nationalists; supporting “independence” referendums around the world, etc.)
→financial system (funding Western startups and companies through the Kremlin-funded venture funds, money-laundering, corporate raiding, etc.) →judicial system (court trials, Interpol Red Notices extradition, denaturalization)
→business industry (running conferences, offering business opportunities and deals, shares in offshore companies, etc.) →science (climate change denial, history re-writing, etc.)
→arts (funding exhibitions, shows and films normalizing the Kremlin policy; recruiting Western celebrities, political leaders and public figures by offering free publicity, financial incentives, career opportunities, etc.)
→educational system (inciting conflicts in traditionally liberal colleges, infiltrating colleges, etc.)
The Kremlin uses multiple covert and overt strategies (called “active measures”) and combines traditional and non-traditional methods such as organized crime, terrorist acts, etc. The traditional warfare is also used (in Ukraine, Syria, African Republic.)
One of the most successful operations of this hybrid war is the mind war (also called cyberwar, information warfare, hybrid war, brain war, non-linear war, psychological war, etc).
Mind War Main Goals: →Demoralizing the population of the US and EU by planting discord, mutual hatred and distrust by means of disinformation, confusion and manipulation of the consciousness. →Corrupting democratic values and morals.
→Dehumanizing other demographic groups perceived as enemies. →Creating a new collective mentality, identity and self-image in the West.
I will do a separate thread on the mind war methods. None of it is new. Yet, it is unrecognized; we are not fighting back. The consequences of a mafia state taking over are dire
Part 2.
Mind war in a nutshell: A red spider wasp paralyzes a spider by injecting poison; lays an egg inside of it. The spider’s vital organs are still working. It is alive but can’t move. The egg hatches and the larva eats the spider from the inside out.
The adversary corrupts minds slowly and inconspicuously. It injects myths and narratives into the public information space. It contaminates individual & collective minds. The attacked country is paralyzed. The adversary takes over. Russia wages a mind war against West.
A human mind operates in stories and narratives. Human behavior can be programmed through stories. The adversary plants narratives into the collective mind. Narratives vary depending on the political situation. Similar types of myths are created in Russia and the West.
Below are a few myth models with examples from the US current political discourse. These narratives are supported by the Kremlin associated trolls and bots:
→Divine nature of the ruler, cult of personality, “savior” (e.g. “Trump is God’s Messenger, Messiah,” etc.) →Union through religion (e.g. “War on Christmas,” “They want to remove Confederate monuments–soon they will burn crosses,” “Christian Nation”)
→The external enemy (e.g. “Muslim ban,” “Mexican Wall,” immigrants phobia, “the war on the white people,” etc.) →The internal enemy(e.g. “deep state,” “Jews will not replace us,” “communist/socialist threat,” “traitors,” “Reality Winner’s case,” etc.)
→Besieged fortress, perpetual war (e.g. “weak borders,” “unfair trade systems,” etc.) →Chosen people, imperial ambitions (e.g. America First, etc.) →Nostalgia for the past (e.g. MAGA, Make Our Farmers Great Again, coal mining come back, Confederate myth, etc.)
Method: The propaganda machine uses brainwashing techniques based on physiological factors, used by cults and religious recruiters. Combined with the modern technology, the Nazi, Communist, Cold War brainwashing methods, it alters minds and emotional patterns.
To convert, “political technologists” first create the atmosphere of danger and crisis through the continual flow of mass media fabrications
Propagandists use images (natural disasters, graphic violence, crime) and language (neuro-linguistic programming) that create a visceral reaction. Reports of disturbing events instill catastrophic/apocalyptic thinking, panic and form the atmosphere of danger and crisis.
Falsification and distortion of the past and present further instill fear, paranoia and confusion. The stories are inserted via the information space: mass media (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines), social media and the Internet (FB, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, blogs, etc.)
Paid trolls on social media generate fake news, conspiracy theories and photoshopped visuals (peaceful protests depicted as violence, Antifa protesters presented as fascists, etc.)
Since 2015, the trolls, sponsored by the Russian government, get high rankings on search engines and promote disinformation. An average Internet user pays attention to the content and not to the source.
Engineered information is then shared by SM users and bots. It gets quoted/echoed by reliable and respectful news sources and SM. The Kremlin-generated narrative is transmitted via the Kremlin-created echo chambers to the mainstream press and international audience.
Repeated 24/7, this causes stress. Next, people under stress are offered “salvation”–solutions that promote militarism, the cult of personality. Marketing & sales techniques are used. (e.g. appeal to all senses, neuro-linguistically engineered calls for action, etc)
The information offered relieves emotional stress. Trust to the source of information offering the solution is formed. Based on this trust, the new information is accepted easily. The cult-like attitude to the leader is formed.(E.g. Trump’s ratings despite criminal trials)
This method creates physiological changes in the brain. Recovery takes special treatment. Thinking patterns are altered and conventional logical arguments fail to deliver facts. The victims of brainwashing develop acute negative emotions to opponents, evidence or facts.
The war is in your mind. It is for the minds. Ideas and emotions turn into actions. Actions change physical reality and political landscapes. Every word counts.
Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War | NYT Opinion, click here
“ACTIVE MEASURES” feature film trailer, click here
Trump/Russia: Follow the money (1/3) | Four Corners ABC Australia Special Report, click here
Putin's Revenge, Part One (full documentary) | FRONTLINE PBS, click here
Trump and Putin: Bosom Bullies | DW Documentary, click here
Related comment posts from the past year:
"Deranged demagogue is an active measures agent created by the Kremlin, enabled & promoted by billionaires like Murdoch & Musk & their minions, backed by neo-fascist psyops & militia folk like Flynn & Oathkeepers, & an entire pseudo-religious cult of whack-jobs out of a bad twilight zone meltdown. Not to mention the former political party that has become a massive criminal conspiracy, GOP now = RICO."
ie: inmate P01135809 is the ultimate manchurian candidate malware”
What if we told the story of monstrously powerful energy vampires, perhaps named vlad & donald, who've been elevated to sucking the intelligence, compassion, hope & possibility out of our reality, enabled by cults of corruption busily sucking the money-monopoly economic system dry, forcing their toxic chemical products on the impoverished masses... Well climate collapse is just part of their program, so all resistance must be crushed beneath fear, insanity, despair & ultimately, enslavement to the cult of dominance.
Much of the world already trying to survive where every chance of change or resistance has been crushed, imprisoned or outlawed, from Afghanistan to Russia, North Korea to China, Saudi Arabia to Palestine... insanity & despair are survival mechanisms. USA under daily terrorist threats of a dehumanized future of violence, enabled & normalized by the establishment, the ugly, hateful face of Big Brother shouting at us from his tower of corruption & madness.
See our exposé of the Putin-Epstein-Trump connection: “Billionaire Corruption Cult behind Putin’s Palace & Mar-a-Lago”
“Heard recently from a former Russian intelligence officer, who was pointing out how Putin plays the long game in hybrid-war. In Trump's case "Vladdy daddy" had been setting the subversion & destruction of America since his marriage to Ivanka's mom, now buried in the back golf course like a box of secret documents. That is when kgb/kremlin became involved, first in corruption/RICO offshore & real estate money laundering, then preparing the manchurian candidate malware agent for election subversion & violent overthrow. Everything about the 2016 election stinks of Putin, but it was Comey the gaping space which allowed the tiger to invade, with his forced laptop conspiracy only days before the election. Not only is the legal system unequipped & unprepared for this hybrid & psycho-war but our media, our internet overlords, our politicians. What with Musk being Vladdy's lost stepchild, America is perhaps more vulnerable in 2024 than in 2016. Try singing "Imagine there's no Putin, it's not easy but we try, insane hell below us, above us unsecured sky"... also, Slava Ukraini
What is most alarming about 2/8/24 & “MAGA stooges” is the coordinated timing of events, obvously orchestrated, from Putin & Carlson & many many youtube & X feeds & promos, to the bumbling SCOTUS numbskulls being quite ok w/ongoing insurrection, to this blatant political attack on Biden from INSIDE the DOJ, shades of Comey dirty tricks, to every legacy media outlet regurgitating attacks on Biden while covering the “victory” of Trump in a rigged NV caucus, where he was basically the only candidate.
Epic WTF folks, this is way, way worse than the troll & bot attacks on twitter in 2016, this is a society wide hybrid war being waged from within our information environment, using Putin’s decades of experience undermining & subverting elections around the world. Most sad, the deranged defendant at the center of all this shitstorm floodzone is a fraudulent, moronic, ugly & hateful bumblefuck. Being given the gold card at every checkpoint. »> https://vote.org