I had the pleasure of interviewing Lauren Morris in the New Year. Lauren is an investigative journalist and research analyst in Austin Texas who has recently traveled to Ukraine, Poland and Romania. She is CEO of the Centrist Inc., supporting the Conservatives for Ukraine platform.

A discussion on the China deception with Alex Benesch.

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  1. Mr. Nyquist, I ran a few numbers.

    The legendary Brazilian druglord, Fernandinho Beira-Mar, stated in a 2001 Congress deposition he would annually give Russian armaments to the Colombian guerrila, the FARCs, in exchange to 200 tons of cocain. Then Beira-Mar would send the drug to the US.

    A UN sheet with details about the retail price for cocain indicates the retail price per gram in the US stayed more or less at 90 dollars around the same time.

    https://www.unodc.org/unodc/secured/wdr/Cocaine_Heroin_Prices.pdf

    So the drug Beira-Mar gave over generated a retail gross revenue of 18 billions.

    So the FARCs received something around 18 billion dollars worth of Russian armaments per year. Possibly this continued to this day, since Sao Paulo Forum is still strong and still providing institutional backing, presumably, besides Beira-Mar is rumored, as indicate in a more recent SBT tv news interview, to receive on a regular basis dozens of attorney in prison; through which one can speculate he still commends the Red Command Organization with court-case evidence collected connections to the FARcs.

    A surface search on the internet indicates this amount of money, 18 billion, corresponds to the same scale of Brazil’s annual military budget, a source called Statista claims was 17.7 billion dollars in 2022.

    Does that sound like Russia, providing this much military support to a paramilitary group who are financed by the American consumer of drugs, does that sound like Russia is just a survivalist country trying to mind its own business as some American conservatives consistently imply?

    I’m beginning to suspect a significant number of conservatives who push the idea de Cold War is over simply fear Russia; and signal subliminally “Just take everything you want; as long as you leave us alone”.

      1. FARC still exists. Of course. There is no collapse. But there was a peace deal so that FARC supposedly disarmed in 2017. I think there is a breakaway faction that remains armed, but I do not know all the details. Communists usually cheat when it comes to disarmament agreements.

    2. Excellent points. The FARC is then receiving about the same level of military support from Russia as Ukraine is getting from the U.S., since the U.S. is sending around $19 billion in armaments per year. Of course, there is the much larger civilian aid packages and other countries are sending arms too. But this puts Colombia and the FARC in persoectuve if true.

      1. In 2008, during a US-Colombia joint-action against the FARCs a news segment in Globo News, a mainstream tv news on Brazil, made some significant remarks. The journalist, whom Olavo de Carvalho worked with by the way, remarked an organization called ALN in Colombia has a similar profile to the FARCs, and Guatemala as similar groups.

        Merval Pereira: “It’s hard for the Brazilian government to deal with the FARCs issue, because PT [Lula’s party] has always been a FARCs ally in the continent leftist political scene. When elected Lula promised Uribe [Colombian president] the Brazilian State wouldn’t pursue a FARCs aligned policy. However, the promised policy and the pro-FARCs leftist stance get mixed up in practice. Marco Aurelio Garcia, special secretary for Latin American relations of President Lula, is at the same time Sao Paulo Forum’s PT representative. The same Sao Paulo Forum which gathers Latin American leftist parties as well as guerillas like the FARCS, ALN also from Colombia, and similar Guatemala groups. The two policies get terribly mixed up. It makes it hard for the Brazilian government to take definitive action and condemn the FARCs. Thus, no Brazilian authority condemned the FARCs. ”

        In 2014 the Sao Paulo meeting occurred in Uruguay, in the Mercosul [international trade organization for South America] headquarters. In it Daniel Ortega [as seen in the recorded video from the event by Brazilian Veja Magazine organization], president of Nicaragua, paid condolences to the FARCs and to a then late deceased FARCs commander, Manuel Marulanda. As of June 2022 Daniel Ortega invited Russian troops and enforced their right to move in and out of Nicaragua by a legislative procedure or decree. THis was claimed to be part of a cooperation initiative to, among others, curb drugtrafficking. This only makes sense if the idea is to go after people trying to compete with the FARCs or other members of Sao Paulo Forum. A prior attempt to achieve monopoly status of organized crime in Latin America was noted by Olavo de Carvalho, because he noted that the blueprints of American anticartel intervention in Latin America during Bill Clinton’s presidency was predicated, essentially, on hurting the competitors of the FARCs and similar politically drive organizations; leaving the FARCs alone.

        It seems communism is using organized crime in Latin America as an icebreaker and smokescreen to be relatively independent of election results, and apply preassures and offer rewards on the political and journalist classes through alternative means. The veteran journalist class in Brazil, controlled by Sao Paulo forum, only talks about the network of alliances like the FARCs-PT alliance through Sao Paulo Forum in order to acknowledge it rarely, casually and as discreetly as to suggest it is the most inconsequential and boring subject possible. That is one reason I think Sao Paulo Forum is behind the US border crisis, of coursed backed by Russian/Chinese political wherewithal; because this crisis seems to be too complex, to connected to infiltration, specially in the media, as Ann Coulter suggested many years ago. According to her modest projection, 30 million illegals had entered the US when she published her book Adios, America in 2015; and almost no one in the media wanted to touch it, this subject, with a ten foot pole. You don’t just have 30 million people enter a country without it raising a public debate.

    3. I think you’re right in your statement about conservatives “just take everything…” statement. Prior to WW2, Americans were isolationists for the most part until something directly affected the US.

      The conservatives don’t want to believe that all of the things going on in the world will and does currently affect them. It’s easier to escape off into sportsball and Trump and all of the shallowness that’s taken over our culture for the last 30 years…

      1. Yes. Joe Douglass wrote about this more than thirty years ago in his book, “Red Cocaine.” Moscow and Beijing are the dominant powers behind the drug cartels.

  2. China is very powerful but how does it operate along with the Soviet agents in modern Russia?

    I see mr Nyquist has extensively covered the operations of Russia (fraudulent USSR) through his accounts with Russian defectors. Yet, I see little information from the Chinese. Does the Chinese control its intelligence network more ruthlessly than Russians to prevent anyone from defecting or leaking info?

    Additionally, do you think that Biden and his leftists will give a win for Russia to annex Ukraine and China to annex Taiwan? Assumed if Russia got Ukraine and China got Taiwan, what will they plan to do next, realistically?

  4. An additional indication that the Ukrainian uprising in 2014 was motivated by the natural feelings of the Ukrainian people is the level of feelings for their country in fighting the Russian invasion a few years later. Excellent discussion, thank you both.

    1. Thank you, yes. The intense feelings of the Ukrainian people and their commitment to freedom is often missed — and this is why the disrespect of Ingraham, Carlson, Macgregor and Ritter et al is so scandalous. These people are standing up for their freedom, paying a tremendous price, and it is supposedly not worthwhile to support them? They are actually defending us! They are standing up for us. Russia is our enemy.

  5. Hello Mister Nyquist, happy new year! What do you think will China do, after the Taiwan elections? Just one point, i don’t know if you know it but Ratzinger (the previous pope), when was very interested, when he was young, in prophecies. He lived close to the village of Alois Irlmeier who can be considered the most important visionary in Germany who predicted WW3 as well as the russian invasion in Germany. He know pretty well also the Feldpostenbriefe, the Fatima Secrets and so on and whas often talking about the Antichrist and Apocalypse. So i was curious what was his opinion about Wladimir Putin and there is a part of his biography (he wrote it with Peter Seewald) where he was talking about Putin. To be honest he wrote nothing special about Putin (it’s the same chapter where he talked about his impressions also about other leaders like Napolitano, Obama, Castro and non comunist leaders). But then i noticed the number of the chapter and it was the chapter 66. After i checked the index and figured out that chapter 66 is in the part number 6 of the book (so we have 666). Funny, isn’t? Please keep in mind that the parts of the book are 6 and the chapter 74. Coincidence? Anyway hope to read a new essay…..

    1. Interesting. China will be calculating its next moves with Russia. Everything really depends on defeating Ukraine first. You do not take on more enemies until you’ve can finish off the ones you’ve invaded. China is Russia’s partner in crime.

  6. Outstanding interview with Lauren Morris. She calls out the Bannon/Tucker/Jones crowd for not supporting Ukraine. She knows the history of Ukraine and the people. She was in Ukraine and learned how special they are. Contrast Lauren Morris with Martin Armstrong.
    Armstrong talked with Loudon and he is clueless about Russia. He swallows the 1991 Russia deception and talks like Putin is not that bad. Putin is a cold blooded murderer for Day 1. Look how he treats his own troops invading Ukraine. The elephant is in the room and Armstrong does not see it.

    2. The interview sounds worth hearing, I can’t wait to listen to it. In the meantime, Alex Benesch’s article below shows that Russia needs to have Ukraine firmly under its thumb before it can even think about making a military play for the heart of Europe. Russia needs 40 million new people and Ukraine’s industrial base and technical expertise to power its own military machine. It is similar to how Germany boosted its army and war industry by taking over Czechoslovakia before WWII.

      https://candorintel.com/?p=1898
      Russia wanted to steal the population and industry of Ukraine

      Russia’s invasion has nothing to do with fighting Nazis or protecting Russian speakers, as the destruction of Russian-speaking cities like Mariupol plainly shows. In the early days when Russian mouthpieces were trotting out one ridiculous justification after another, it was easy to miss the strategic reasons for the invasion. Russia also seems to be engineering its own population replacement, with a disproportionate number of non-Russians from the hinterlands dying on the frontlines so that the Kremlin can absorb millions of new “Russians” to replace them. Very ghoulish when you think about it. And yes, guests on Russian state TV have referred to people outside of Moscow as “undesirable” (https://twitter.com/ne_vluchiv/status/1657195026387030020). They along with the politicians also regularly discuss how many millions of Ukrainians need to be killed until the rest submit to the Russian boot and they can all be “one people” (https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1657177465658257409). But most of our the high-paid conservative “journalists” and media stars –Carlson, Ingraham, Waters, Beck, Deace– are not interested in reporting any of this, all they do decry Ukraine’s unwillingness to make “peace” and blame its government for prolonging the war. They complain about left-wing media bias and never notice their one-sided pro-Russian bias, in their hubris they think they are clever and independent-minded. I bet these clever people never notice that they’re all reading from the same script.

      Here is a recent example of how fake news about Zelensky’s associates spread like wildfire on on the internet and within a few days was influencing Congressional debates. Did anti-corruption czar Marjorie Taylor Green ever apologize for citing a completely fake story? “Scoops” like this one are given an air credibility by American propagandists who attach their name to them, and then they are pumped on the internet by Russian bots who amplify and legitimize them with millions of fake views. There is little analysis or discussion of anything anymore, the conservative movement appears to be mostly driven by “personalities” and viral social media stories.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67766964
      How pro-Russian ‘yacht’ propaganda influenced US debate over Ukraine aid

    3. The interview sounds worth hearing, I can’t wait to listen to it. In the meantime, Alex Benesch’s article below shows that Russia needs to have Ukraine firmly under its thumb before it can even think about making a military play for Europe. Russia needs 40 million new people and Ukraine’s industrial base and technical expertise to power its own military machine. It is similar to how Germany boosted its army and war industry by taking over Czechoslovakia before WWII.

      https://candorintel.com/?p=1898
      Russia wanted to steal the population and industry of Ukraine

      Russia’s invasion has nothing to do with fighting Nazis or protecting Russian speakers, as the destruction of Russian-speaking cities like Mariupol plainly shows. In the early days when Russian mouthpieces were trotting out one ridiculous justification after another, it was easy to miss the strategic reasons for the invasion. Russia also seems to be engineering its own population replacement, with a disproportionate number of non-Russians from the hinterlands dying on the frontlines so that the Kremlin can absorb millions of new “Russians” to replace them. Very ghoulish when you think about it. And yes, guests on Russian state TV have referred to people outside of Moscow as “undesirable” (https://twitter.com/ne_vluchiv/status/1657195026387030020). They along with the politicians also regularly discuss how many millions of Ukrainians need to be killed until the rest submit to the Russian boot and they can all be “one people” (https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1657177465658257409). But our high-paid conservative info-tainers–Carlson, Ingraham, Waters, Beck, Deace– are not interested in reporting any of this, all they do is decry Ukraine’s unwillingness to make “peace” with the country that is hell-bent on murdering their people [insert comparison with Israel-Hamas situation here]. They complain about left-wing media bias and never notice their one-sided pro-Russian bias, in their hubris they think they are clever and independent-minded. Some of them profess to be God-fearing, but they don’t think they will ever have to answer for callously denigrating a people in their hour of suffering. They are not serious people so they assume there will be no consequences to what they say.

      Here is an example of how fake news about Zelensky’s associates spread like wildfire on social media and within a few days was influencing Congressional debates. Did anti-corruption czar Marjorie Taylor Greene ever apologize for citing a completely fake story? “Scoops” like this one are given an air credibility by American propagandists and then are pumped on the internet by Russian bots who amplify and legitimize them with millions of fake views. There is little analysis and discussion of anything anymore, the conservative movement seems to be mostly driven by “personalities” and viral social media stories.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67766964
      How pro-Russian ‘yacht’ propaganda influenced US debate over Ukraine aid

      1. I had the same thoughts about Ukraine industry and resources from the beginning but it didn’t seem like folks wanted to hear that when it’s somehow easier to believe that Russian was invading another nation to stop Nato (an organization that was created to counter soviet expansion) from expanding and to stop a Jewish led nazi army…

        Ukraine was the center of Soviet heavy manufacturing and it made sense to me that they would want that back in order to build back better. The artifical reef Moskva was built in Ukraine, as was most of their heavy weapons and aircraft.

      2. Indeed! A man who tracks super Yacht sales debunked the propaganda about Zelensky buying a expensive yacht. The Putin Bots infesting The Gateway Pundit were in full flight about the lie.

  7. No one is preventing this lady to volunteer to fight, they allegedly accept women. She wants to send working class Ukrainian to fight for her ideology against their will, which is disgusting and will backfire.

    1. So, you are running for Canada if the Chinese invade the U.S. I got it. You’re against people who fight for their freedom. You think the Ukrainian “working class” is coerced. How very communist of you, believing the Russian trolls. Perhaps you are writing from a troll farm in Venezuela. What’s your ideology? — let the dictators have the planet? What an idealist you are. Haven’t you read any history?

      1. “How very communist of you”

        Is it suppose to be an insult? You delete my other answers. I am not afraid arguing with anti-communists, unlike you supposed a supposed expert on communism being afraid of other side.

      2. Kn: You are trolling me, and you were advancing communist-like notions, so I pointed out what side in the struggle you are on, though I doubt you know anything about Marxism or communist history. I deleted your posts because they were unintelligent and insolent. I am not afraid of arguing with you, but you don’t know how to frame an argument. And you haven’t the sense to understand what I am saying; so, you are a waste of time. Bye bye.

  8. The Fat Leonard prisoner swap is an incongruous boon under this Administration. The US Navy scandal going by his callsign underscored the kind of damage such an individual and network could do in wartime, or in the prelude to hostilities. What are your thoughts on this in light of the Guyana ‘SMO’?

    https://www.npr.org/2023/12/20/1220816420/who-is-fat-leonard-and-how-did-he-end-up-as-part-of-the-venezuelan-prisoner-swap
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fat-leonard-francis-venezuela-prisoner-swap-bribery-charges-court-hearing/

    1. Venezuela is trying to help China get the oil contracts by scaring off U.S. companies. That’s all. Fat Leonard is not somebody they could turn to account, but why did we swap for him? He belongs there. It’s a mystery wrapped in manure.

      1. I wondered if Venezuela messing with Guyana was an attempt to cause problems closer to home with the goal of spreading the US military and resources even more thinly

  10. THIS IS FROM THE LATEST BILL GERTZ “INSIDE THE RING”:

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/3/inside-ring-xi-jinping-advocates-world-communism-s/

    Xi advocates world communism in speech marking Mao’s birth

    Pentagon touts decisive year in Asia; China shows off newest carrier

    By Bill GertzThe Washington TimesWednesday, January 3, 2024

    NEWS AND ANALYSIS:

    Chinese President Xi Jinping announced recently that the ruling Communist Party’s ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics can serve as a global alternative to the West’s U.S.-led capitalist system.

    In a speech Dec. 26, the Chinese leader invoked the late dictator Mao Zedong in outlining his plan for replacing Western capitalism with Chinese-style Marxism-Leninism. Mr. Xi said in the speech that Mao was a “great Marxist and a great proletarian revolutionary, strategist and theorist.”

    “He was a great patriot and national hero in modern Chinese history, and the core of the party’s first generation of central leadership,” Mr. Xi said. “He was a great man who led the Chinese people to change their destiny and the nation as a whole, and a great internationalist who made significant contributions to the liberation of oppressed nations and the cause of human progress worldwide.”

    The Chinese president, who is also general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, used that address and another speech on New Year’s Eve to underscore China’s determination to one day take over the democratic-ruled island of Taiwan.

    “The motherland must and is bound to be reunified,” Mr. Xi said in the first speech. China, he added, must “deepen cross-strait integration and development in all areas, and promote the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations.”

    The comments come as Taiwan is set for presidential elections later this month that polls say will return the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party to power.Renewed veneration for Mao marks a shift in official Beijing policy. In the past, “the Great Helmsman” was seen as only partially successful as a leader because of the disastrous results of many of his policies.

    Western academics say Mao is responsible for the deaths of an estimated 60 million Chinese through attempted forced modernization programs such the Great Leap Forward, which produced a famine in the 1950s, and the politically charged Cultural Revolution.

    The decade-long Cultural Revolution that began in 1966 unleashed Red Guard zealots against both party and non-party elements of Chinese society and set back the entire country economically until a team of reform-minded communists took over in the 1980s.

    Mr. Xi’s own policies have sparked analyses that he is trying to create his own Mao-like personality cult. The Communist Party eliminated term limits for Mr. Xi in 2018, opening the way for him to secure an unprecedented third five-year term as president last year. He argues that the prime mission of the Chinese Communist Party is to “build China into a stronger country and rejuvenate the Chinese nation on all fronts by pursuing Chinese modernization.”

    Rejuvenation and modernization are seen as code words for promoting Chinese socialism as a replacement for the system of democracy and free markets in the West.Mr. Xi said modernization is a “cause passed down from veteran revolutionaries, including Mao Zedong” that represents “the solemn historical responsibility of today’s Chinese communists.

    ”Chinese propaganda outlets have stepped up promoting Mao. A Communist Party research institute last month stated that Mao should be remembered for “high achievements and strong morals” — concepts that clash with historical accounts of Mao’s debauched lifestyle, as revealed in the 1996 book by his personal doctor, Li Zhisui.

    Since taking power in 2012, Mr. Xi has launched a constant stream of political purges of perceived rivals in both the party and the military, another feature of Mao’s rule. Hundreds of senior officials have been arrested and jailed under the campaign, including several members of the party’s Standing Committee of the Politburo, the seven-member collective leadership headed by Mr. Xi.

    Most recently, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and Defense Minister Li Shangfu both abruptly disappeared from public view and were later fired. Mr. Xi named Adm. Dong Jun, a former chief of the People’s Liberation Army navy, as defense minister on Dec. 29.

    Three days after the Mao speech, Mr. Xi gave another speech on foreign policy declaring that Beijing’s communist policies abroad will become more aggressive, including seizing strategic opportunities to advance global “influence, appeal and power” and strengthening Communist Party control of foreign affairs.

    Party officials were also urged by Mr. Xi to resist what he termed “bullying” and “hegemonism” by the West.

    Mr. Xi then warned of “high winds and choppy waters” in the coming months as the world enters a time of “turbulence and transformation” — a veiled reference to confrontation with the United States and Western allies over both ideological and geopolitical differences.

    The Biden administration has sought to shrug off China’s undeclared ideological war as geopolitical competition. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior administration leaders have said publicly the United States will not seek to overthrow the Chinese communist system.

    As for China, it has accused the CIA of seeking to foment a democratic “color revolution” in the country.

    Pentagon’s decisive year in Asia

    The Pentagon says its policies in the Asia-Pacific region are producing a critical year in confronting growing Chinese aggression, leading state media in Beijing to accuse the Defense Department of hyping the threat from China.

    Last week, the Pentagon issued a fact sheet outlining how the United States, along with allies and partners, delivered “groundbreaking achievements for peace, stability and deterrence in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific region.”

    “In this decisive decade, 2023 will be remembered as a decisive year for implementing U.S. defense strategy in Asia,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin declared.

    U.S. efforts last year strengthened the military and defense posture in Asia by producing what the Pentagon statement said was a “more mobile, distributed, resilient and lethal” force.

    The list of actions included deploying key military units to Japan, including an advanced Marine Corps force called a littoral regiment, and an Army watercraft unit. Both were said to “significantly enhance combat-credible deterrence.”

    Together with Australia, the U.S. military pursued initiatives including extended visits Down Under by submarines, bombers and fighters, stepped-up naval and ground forces cooperation, and enhanced space and logistics efforts. The Australians also upgraded key bases and moved toward setting up a submarine rotational force by 2027.

    In the Philippines, four new defense sites were designated to bolster U.S.-Philippine military ties in confronting what the statement said were “shared challenges in the Indo-Pacific region” — a reference to increased Chinese military pressure on the Philippines.

    “The United States is deploying cutting-edge military capabilities right now, developing the capabilities needed to maintain deterrence in the Indo-Pacific in the future, and supporting allies and partners as they invest in their own capabilities,” the statement said.

    The capabilities will be funded by $170 billion to procure advanced air, sea and land weapons; $145 billion in weapons research and development; and $9.1 billion for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, a spending program for regional power.

    While China was not mentioned as a motivating force, Chinese state media sharply criticized the Pentagon claims.“

    These aggressive moves are reflections of the U.S.’ Cold War mentality and its pursuit of military hegemony through bloc confrontation, which will only harm peace and stability in the region and the world,” the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated Global Times stated.

    Beijing shows off newest aircraft carrier

    Chinese state media on Wednesday revealed new images of the country’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian. The carrier is the first domestically produced warplane-carrying ship using electromagnetic catapults and arresting devices.

    The warship, first launched in June 2022, is estimated to have an 80,000-ton displacement and is considered more advanced than two other Chinese carriers: the Liaoning, which was built from a scrap Ukrainian carrier purchased in 1988, and the Shandong, which was commissioned in 2019.

    Chinese state television on Tuesday showed video of the Fujian being towed by a small vessel. The video revealed all three tracks of the electromagnetic catapult system.“In the new year, we will seize every minute, work with determination, and strive for combat readiness as soon as possible,” an officer aboard the Fujian officer said in the video, Reuters reported.“

    China’s carriers are no match for U.S. carriers, but they offer China the kind of power-projection capabilities that its neighbors in Asia lack,” said Andrew Erickson, a Chinanaval expert and professor of strategy at the Naval War College. “It is a symbol of power.”

    The United States deploys 11 aircraft carriers. The value of carriers, however, is being diminished with the deployment of long-range precision-guided anti-ship missiles, such as China’s DF-21D and DF-26 anti-ship ballistic missiles.

    Like the Fujian, the Navy’s Ford-class aircraft carriers, a new class of nuclear-powered warship, will use the advanced Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, known as EMALS.

    The Chinese version of the catapult will be able to launch more types of aircraft than just jet fighters, including electronic warfare aircraft, unmanned aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft.
    __________________________________________

  11. Uh oh. It seems that Diana West has joined the ranks of 9/11 truthers.
    https://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/4703/We-Were-Such-Easy-Marks.aspx
    http://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/4702/From-the-Dust-of-9-11-The-Surveillance-State.aspx

    The US government was behind the attack, Bin Laden was a CIA asset, and the towers did not collapse because they were hit by two jetliners. All of that is preposterous and people who believe the official story are dupes. The reason for the attack was to justify the creation of the surveillance state we have to this day. And it wasn’t just 9/11, the US government was involved in other Islamic terror attacks designed to instill a fear of terrorism and love of big government in American citizens. No mention of the USSR/Russia’s decades-long sponsoring and nurturing of Islamic and Arab terrorism, but only a cheap shot meant to imply that the USA is the new USSR. The Old USSR fell off a cliff in 1991 and was never heard from again, but like the alien in the movie “Alien” it successfully replicated itself by planting its seed in a new American host.

    Diana’s case is a sad turn. Jeff wrote before about other American conservatives who were equally knowledgeable of Soviet subversion and who, unlike West, believed Golitsyn’s warnings but who are now firmly in the Russian camp, driven by unremitting hatred and distrust of their own government (or by hate of Biden if we’re talking about low-info conservatives). A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, and knowing half the story is in some ways as bad as not knowing anything. People can read the history of Soviet penetration of the US government in the 1930’s, the history of FDR’s many bad decisions during WWII, the history of the US’s many security failures during the Cold War, the history of the Kennedy assassination and subsequent investigation, the history of Kissinger’s many foreign policy “triumphs” which benefitted the Communist powers, etc. and come away from all this thinking that the modern US government is as bad or worse than the Soviet one. There is something about studying the history of Allied appeasement of the USSR during WWII in particular that demoralizes some anti-communists so much that they veer towards the opposite extreme, they lose any balanced perspective of history and end up casting their own Western governments as irredeemably guilty. (US support for the USSR in WWII was too much and went on for too long and Patton’s advice for driving out the Red Army should have been followed, but there was a legitimate fear that if Nazi Germany took control of Russia’s vast natural resources it would become unstoppable. Even today the extreme right in Germany think that the key to German greatness is the marriage of German industry to Russian natural resources. As Jeff says, this alliance would lead to the quintupling of Russia’s current defense production.) So now 80 years later the US government is so evil that a justification for its continued existence can no longer be made. At least that’s the sense I get from West’s language. So the USSR which is now baring its fangs and loudly announcing its return from the dead becomes a side note to its own saga of masterful subversion of the West.

    I think the problem as Jeff has explained before comes from a lack of nuance and a fundamental misunderstanding of communism. There is so much focus on Leftist activism and the infiltration and subversion of the US government that the big picture geopolitical strategy of the USSR and PRC is overlooked. Communism is wrongly understood to be a set of rigid yet nebulous ideological beliefs (command economy, socialism and Western wokeness) and not recognized as a very flexible strategy employed by two global powers. A strategy with an ideological cover that can change shape and morph into the complete opposite of itself, a strategy that is always moving forward from opposite sides, a strategy that is shaping individuals’ consciousness and that of whole countries and continents, a strategy that is agitating the whole developing world against the West with the goal of establishing a totalitarian world system headed by Russia and China. Misreading all this leads many right wingers to blame the victims of communist subversion and indoctrination in a fit of misplaced moral outrage. It is something the Communists are experts at exploiting.

    It is worrying reading Jeff’s 2018 articles at the old blog site (for example http://www.jrnyquist.com/what-if-the-plan-was-.html) and the comments made by Alex Benesch in a recent video discussion how Russia is hoping that the long-term strategy of flooding the West with Muslims while quietly fostering the growth of new nationalist right-wing parties will pay dividends once Europeans have finally had enough of the Muslims invaders and vote en masse for pro-Russia parties like Germany’s AfD. A similar thing is happening in the US with the border crisis and the steering of a large part of the MAGA movement into the Russian camp. The grand strategy seems more real than ever but many anti-communists are missing it.

    1. Thank you, Laura, for your incisive comments. People who believe in elaborate conspiracy narratives, like the JFK and Truther and fake Moon landing narratives, are no longer rational interlocutors. They leave aside rules of evidence, reason, etc. They are so animated by resentment that they use ill-defined terms like “Deep State” or “globalist” or “banksters.” These are supposedly orchestrating all of it, even though we have no precise idea what these terms even mean. The conspiracy theorists can only be objects of study. They are unfit as allies and researchers because their syndrome leaves them open to manipulation by the communist strategists — who have long used conspiracy narratives to leverage right and left. Instead of pointing to socialism as a movement, and to the Marxist-Leninist manipulation of this movement in all its forms, their focus turns to the CIA and American big business. Suddenly the targets of communist subversion are blamed as the originators of the subversion. The institutions of the victimized society are confused with the perpetrators. The most common error in the social sciences is to invert cause and effect. This is what they do. Conspiracy theory accomplishes this inversion by failing to understand communism itself. Conspiracy theory is wrong because history is too big for a “conspiracy” to have determined the larger historical trends of the last 235 years. Nobody has that capability. Lenin’s conspiratorial political party of professional revolutionaries has been a decisive factor, of course; but the socialist phenomenon is more complex than a conspiracy. It is more the result of social and psychological pathologies amplified by Machiavellian political practices that have crystallized into bureaucratic practice and scientific pretense. Marxism-Leninism is, rather, an intensification of the political religiosity of the French Revolution plus positivism, scientism, and organized crime. The same can be said for the pedigree of National Socialism. The totalitarian movements, for all their differences, bear a family resemblance to each other. That is not by design, because these movements emerged spontaneously. These movements resulted from the mixing of modernity and Christianity, liberalism and democracy — facilitated by the collapse of the aristocratic function. Socialism is the disease of modernity, as it were. Despite its many mutations it is the same disease in every country it appears. And it is the wasting disease of Christendom. As the United States is infected, and shares some of the pathologies observable in socialist dictatorships, it is important to say that we have not fully transitioned to socialism. Our Constitutional system has not been entirely overthrown. It functions to a surprising extent; only, under magistrates that hate it, undermine it, or cynically exploit the system’s weaknesses. The conspiracy theorists disagree with the sociological and historical approach to the problem, because they think there is a supremely capable central cabal that controls history. But human beings are too weak, too stupid, and too short-lived to carry out perfect conspiracies. Look at Russia’s bungling in Ukraine. Human beings cannot control history. The thing that moves history forward is the inherent strengths and weaknesses of the existing dispensation. Our civilization emerged out of Medieval Christendom. The changes of the last 500 years are unlike anything in previous history we know of. The notion that we are “progressing” has been an article of faith. The idea that “thinkers” like Marx or Francis Fukuyama know where history is going, is laughable. The notion that humanity is “advancing” is belied by rising illiteracy and falling test scores, by rising incompetence.
      History is a mysterious process mortals cannot fully fathom.

      1. The problem with the Twin Towers destruction is that the official story is so full of inconsistencies and improbabilities that it is unbelievable. We have only half the story, if even that.

        The problem with the conspiracy theorists is that they want closure. But we don’t have enough information to get closure. We must be satisfied with only a partial history, recognizing that we may never get the whole history. Knowing a little is better than nothing, if (the big IF) we recognize that we have only a partial understanding and therefore must wait for more information before drawing conclusions.

        Part of wanting closure is blaming the many for the actions of a few. For example, the Twin Towers could have been brought down with a crew of as few as ten, with half of them not in on the conspiracy. And some in on the conspiracy foreign agents. We don’t know. We don’t have the information. It is the height of hubris to think that on the basis of very partial knowledge that we can recognize the whole. And hubris is foolishness. Yet the whole government is being blamed for what could have been, for lack of better knowledge, the actions of a few traitors and communist moles.

        One thing I have to disagree, “These movements resulted from the mixing of modernity and Christianity,” All these movements that you mentioned hate Christianity and want its destruction. Part of its destruction is to infiltrate heresies and call them “Christian”. This has been going on well over a millennium. “Modernity” is one of those movements.

        Thucydides may be the patron saint of conspiracy theorists. How many of the speeches that he recorded were actually given the way he recorded them? How much was his theorizing to get closure? The Greeks of that time were not sticklers for historical accuracy.

        Were communists and traitors behind the destruction of the Twin Towers? The more I see and hear, the more it appears that way. But there are many details that I don’t know, and don’t pretend to know, that make a hole in those conspiracy theories that one can drive a semi through with room to spare. There’s no question that the Twin Towers were hit by airplanes apparently piloted by lapsed Muslims hoping by their martyrdom they could yet get their 72 virgins. But what else happened is so full of claims and counter claims that can anyone get to the bottom of it? The unbelievable official story only gives rise to more unbelievable conspiracy theories. We need to recognize our limits.

        It’s sad to see people get caught up in conspiracy theories.

      2. As a rule, conspiracy theories sound consistent but always turn out to be counter factual. The inconsistencies they allege are due to the fact that all truthful accounts contain minor errors. The fact that there are errors or inconsistencies in otherwise true accounts is not proof of a conspiracy — as conspiracists believe. It merely proves that people are error-prone. It’s like imagining every minor mistake is part of a grand nefarious design. If we think on it, real conspiracies do not remain secret for long. They fail more often than they succeed, and they are not continuous — especially as men are mortal and often die before realizing their dreams. In truth, political movements in which human belief is engaged.

      3. The problem with the official story is that it contains not just minor errors, rather major unanswered inconsistencies as evidenced by eyewitness testimonies backed up by pictorial and video evidences that I won’t detail here. Those inconsistencies are what the conspiracy theorists latch onto in order to spin their speculations for which they have no evidence. Further, their speculations ignore possibilities that throw narratives wide open making closure impossible without more information. Information that they don’t have.

        I mention possible KGB/GRU involvement that can’t be ruled out without evidence as well as communist moles within the various conspiracy theorist groups that steer away from possible communist involvement. I don’t have evidence for communist KGB/GRU involvement, nor evidence against that possibility. But we know that our society is infested with traitors and moles who take their orders from Moscow, who make what I mention concerning conspiracy theories a possibility. Further, their moles and traitors include many useful idiots fed enough false information in bits and pieces who then can influence others. The biggest false information is “the collapse of communism”. A sneer of “You can’t be serious” is enough to stop investigation into a possibility.

        As for me personally, I’m left with a bunch of questions with no answers. I refuse to go down rabbit holes of speculation without solid evidence, solid evidence that no one has provided.

      4. I’ve started reading about Dugin’s 4th political theory and more folks need to read about and think critically about it… the combination of the “benefits” of nazisim, fascism, and communism.

        If you want to see the amount of influence this ideology has on westerners (which claims is not an ideology afterall) and what that ideology looks like then go create an account on gab.com and pay attention to what people post. It’s an interesting study.

        I have to wonder if the train wreck idea of “Christian Nationalism” is part of or influenced by Dugin’s ideas and theories and if it has been something pushed by the FSB as part of their subversion of the Christians here in the US.

      6. “Christian nationalism” is like the Ku Klux Klan, it barely exists. The title is mostly a label used by leftists on all serious Christians.

    2. Some of your assertions mentioned in the third paragraph reminded me of what a former KGB officer (a Major I think) Victor Sheymov stated in a 1993 interview: “Another point is political and ide­ological, which is especially impor­tant these days when we hear that communism is dead. Why should we bother with communism? In response to that, I think it is important to re­member that communism is not just an ideology. It is a mentality, a mind­set. And that mind-set, unfortunately, is alive and well. Communism is dead as an ideology, true. But we are going to deal with people from such a back­ground for a couple of generations.”

      1. As history shows, communism has reinvented itself several times. It has always been mutating. It invariable returns to a virulent form.

      1. Excellent response by Jeff in defense of Golitsyn, really good find.

        “This merely shows that a deeper understanding of the totalitarian system doesn’t require that you have lived under it, or that you have worked inside the disinformation department of the KGB; for many who live under such a system — or even worked for it — do not understand the strategic principle of the thing. Strategy is like playing the piano. You have to practice, you have to study, and you must have aptitude.”

        And the top professional piano players practice 3-5 hours every day for years, decades even. So then the long-term strategy of Moscow is not just theory or conspiracy, it is history, religion and culture, it’s a way of doing things which is practiced every day by the top leaders but only doled out in small bits and pieces to the functionaries below them. The point about people who have lived under Communism not understanding what it was is sadly true. I have older relatives here in North America and in Romania who buy into the Russian narrative on Ukraine and NATO; unlike me they experienced Communism under Ceausescu so accordingly, they know that the current West is behaving like a latter-day Communist Bloc, waging wars of aggression to impose their progressive ideology on everyone. How can you argue with that? They lived under Communism so they know what they’re talking about. Yet the thing is, if you are a person who believes the commonly accepted version of the events of 1989-1990, then the West’s aggressive stance toward the USSR in the 1980’s was a good thing because it led to the liberation of many East Bloc countries and those people got the freedom to make a better life for themselves. So why don’t the Ukrainians deserve the same chance at freedom and prosperity that most other East European countries already had? The answer I get is that they are so uniquely nasty and corrupt that they can’t be expected to have what everybody else has. This is really the number one catch-all excuse.

        As for Diana West, at least the recent article about Whitney Webb’s book on Epstein was very informative. Webb buttresses her “one nation under blackmail” thesis with sordid unproven allegations about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s personal life, allegations that never had a shred of proof behind them. And the fact that Communism or the KGB is never even mentioned in her book at all tells you all you need to know about her true motivations for writing it. Webb’s book is the anti-CIA, conspiracy theory version of Julie K. Brown’s much better researched book, which from what I’ve heard touches on matters of espionage and foreign intelligence. Webb’s book may have been written deliberately to take attention away from Brown’s more accurate reporting on the Epstein scandal.

  12. Thank you for this comment, Laura. I think it is an acute analysis of what has happened to a large segment of the right. I have been worried about Diana West for quite a while. I think you are right: “There is something about studying the history of Allied appeasement of the USSR during WWII in particular that demoralizes some anti-communists so much that they veer towards the opposite extreme, they lose any balanced perspective of history and end up casting their own Western governments as irredeemably guilty.”

    Occasionally there is a glimmer of the old Diana, for example when she recently took Whitney Webb to the woodshed and applied her gimlet eye to Webb’s arguments in “One Nation Under Blackmail.” West’s comment, following, expresses both her sense that we have become hunted targets in a hostile takeover of our government and institutions, and a lingering ability to place this in its larger context, as indicated in her final sentences:

    “I’d like to pause to note that the ‘corruption of our core institutions’ is something everyone (practically everyone) reading these words recognizes, mourns, rages at, all of us trying in our own way to survive what has happened, to our families, to our nation; and to resist it all and fight back. Indeed, it is in this shared tragedy where we might find the mechanism of Webb’s crossover appeal to us ‘outcasts’ — we who already know the government is lying to us, even trying to kill us, and we who have long turned our backs on that government’s indispensable ally, the MSM. Some of us have been counter-culture for a long time; some of us woke up in this camp more recently — due to the rolling coup d’etat by a sordid union of Intelligence and Organized Government against Donald Trump from 2016 onward (Webb doesn’t want to talk about that one); or the covid hoax, covid tyranny and covid die-off (2019 onward); or the vicious persecutions of the January 6 patriots (2021 onward); or one of so many other convulsions shaking loose the facts to show that We, the People are not sovereign over the State; rather, we are victims in its crosshairs.

    “In other words, we can agree with what Whitney Webb is saying: Yes, our core institutions have been corrupted. But — and this is The Big Question — did it happen ‘in the type of way’ the 33-year-old author is telling us? Namely, by a ‘sordid union’ in the 20th century of Intelligence and Organized Crime originally forged by J. Edgar Hoover and the Mafia? And isn’t there something missing from Webb’s 20th century — like, um, uh, the sordid union of the KGB, cultural Marxists, things like that?”

    There is a poignant irony in the title of Diana West’s book, American Betrayal. It can be interpreted as meaning the betrayal OF America or the betrayal BY America. I think that ambiguity, intentional or unconscious, reflects a distress that many of us feel; we simply come down at different points on the spectrum between the two. It is difficult psychologically to maintain the equilibrium between the two that objectivity requires.

    1. Excellent comment, Deborah Cole; very well-stated insights. As always Lauraz1986 provides a sharp analysis.

  13. Yes, after reading her 2 books on Epstein, she goes to great lengths never mentioning the root of the problem. Whitney Webb never mentions the “C” word, the Communist actors, influence here and abroad (for the past 75+ years) never mentions Communism as being behind any and all WEF activities, much less admitting it is just another Communist front group. It’s the “globalists” stupid!

    She’s a rabid Libertarian who is pro Russian, pro Putin and is always willing to interview with those who are sympathetic to her own views. She doesn’t even reside in America anymore.

  14. Jeff,

    The series of interviews you’ve been doing lately are extremely helpful.

    I’ve read Golitsyn’s books. Could you recommend some recent books that cover the period since those were written.

    Kind regards

    2. I know your question was addressed to Jeff, but I would strongly recommend the book Putin’s People by Catherine Belton.

    3. Yes, Beltin’s book is interesting and I am rereading it now. Also, “From Russia With Blood” and Yuri Goldfarb’s “Death of a Dissident.”

  15. Jeff or Nevin,
    I just purchased a book at a second hand bookstore entitled “KGB The Inside Story”. Any thoughts of the book, or author Christopher Andrew and the KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky?

    1. Andrew/Mitrokhin supply very useful information on Soviet support for communist parties, disinformation blackening the CIA re: the Kennedy assassination, and support for various “liberation” movements. However, if I recall correctly, Andrew tends to dismiss the KGB a little bit, claiming their documents smuggled in by Mitrokhin tended to overstate their victories. Given the history of the Soviets claiming to be weak (while actually being more effective in reality), I would take Andrew’s editorial comments downplaying the USSR with a grain of salt.

  16. Gordievsky’s books also had some interesting tidbits. I believe he also revealed that the Soviets had a core of sympathizers amongst radical leftist British Labour Party MPs. However, the knowledge of KGB and GRU defectors are limited, since these agencies (or for that matter, the CPSU) were highly compartmentalized and very opaque. Plus, as you know, we have to be open to the possibility that defectors could be fake (i.e. Yuri Nosenko, Vitaly Yurchenko) or CIA/FBI assets in place being double agents (i.e. FEDORA and Top Hat).

  17. Please, find Lauren Morris here: https://twitter.com/ComeleLauren, https://www.laurencomelemorris.com/, https://twitter.com/ProjectCentrist

    Jeff, to me, this was the best public conversation you’ve had about the Ukraine yet. I melted when I heard her say ‘You can’t believe the spirit here’ and ‘We don’t care about people’s words’ – this is the good and the focus that the war has brought to young people in Ukraine and Poland and the patriotic movement there supporting them. It’s about part of the young generation there understandinig communism like you and Lauren understand it.

    Greetings from Gazeta Polska Clubs!

    2. I had the same reaction of admiration and sympathy when I read this account of the Maidan revolution, recommended by Jeff: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3838213270/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
      Ukraine’s Maidan, Russia’s War: A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity (Ukrainian Voices)
      Btw, I have been unable to find the recent program that Trevor Loudon has had with Julie Behling and one other, more recently, that you referenced on the John Moore program. I have checked on Rumble, for his name directly and under TFA tv, but nothing that recent comes up. Can you provide any direct links?

    3. Always great to hear from you, Thomas!

      Question: what do you know about the Polish trucker blockade at the Ukraine border? Apparently it was the work of patriotic right-wing groups, but I heard rumours that Russian agents were involved behind the scenes. Much was made of this spat between Poland and Ukraine by the Russian media. This and other such incidents show how patriotic sentiment can be leveraged on small, isolated issues to serve larger un-patriotic ends. Having the correct big picture view of the world is essential, and until conservatives have that their movement will always be easily infiltrated by the communists.

      https://twitter.com/JRewinski/status/1742817651758424476

      It is unfortunate that news outlets like TVP World, funded by the conservative Polish government, are now in limbo. They did a good job countering Russian disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe, and were an invaluable English-language source on what was happening there for the wider world.

  18. China’s influence is spreading and spreading.

    Here in Peru they’re buying up the energy infrastructure. They’re also investing in the ports.

    U.S. worries that China is buying control of Peru’s seaports and electrical grid

    https://cuencahighlife.com/u-s-worries-that-china-is-buying-control-of-perus-seaports-and-electrical-grid/

    China increases control of Peruvian Energy Supply and state influence

    https://fundacionandresbello.org/en/news/peru-%F0%9F%87%B5%F0%9F%87%AA-news/china-increases-control-of-peruvian-energy-supply-and-state-influence/

    US raises concern with Peru over Chinese control of infrastructure

    https://www.ft.com/content/2c77be69-60d7-4d5c-a0c6-c7978bde3888

    Also, here in Peru and Ecuador, there are street rumors (and I emphasize
    rumors) the government is snatching up people (teens-young adults) on the
    street that aren’t in school and aren’t working and forcing them into the
    military. If that’s true, how are they paying for that on their shoestring
    economies which still haven’t recovered from the covid disaster?

    Ecuador has become cocaine central. Port efficiency has the spice flowing
    at 3 times the amount.

    US quietly strikes deal to send military to Ecuador amid drug cartel explosion

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/us-quietly-strikes-deal-to-send-military-to-ecuador-amid-drug-cartel-explosion/ar-AA1hsBTp

    And

    Ecuador Reaches Trade Deal With China, Aims to Increase Exports, Lasso

    Says

    https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-01-03/ecuador-reaches-trade-deal-with-china-aims-to-increase-exports-lasso-says

    If Peru and Ecuador can’t stop this:

    Ecuador and Peru fighting a losing battle with China on giant squid
    fishing in the southeast Pacific

    https://en.mercopress.com/2023/02/16/ecuador-and-peru-fighting-a-losing-battle-with-china-on-giant-squid-fishing-in-the-southeast-pacific

    How can they stop a soft invasion?

    And there was the recent Guyana/Venezuela flare up which hasn’t settled.

    Venezuela to hold military drills after UK sends warship to Guyana
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67836342

    Seems someone’s itching to open a southern front to spread the U.S. thin.

    Rumor also has it weapons from the Ukraine war have made it to the
    cartels, including the Mexican ones. Supposedly they possess anti-air
    missiles (And who knows what else) from the Ukraine war weapons black
    market bonanza. If that’s true I suspect every communist group in South
    America has gone shopping.

    While the U.S. has been preoccupied with other fires, the countries from
    Mexico to Argentina are flushing their toilets on the U.S. border.
    Sending the mentally ill, sexual-predators, malcontents, murders, narco-
    criminals, many are military age males.
    (The same has occurred in Europe disguised as cultural diversity/enrichment.)
    How many weapons and explosives and special operators have been smuggled
    into the U.S. in between all this?

    These people/saboteurs that have been infiltrated are the first wave
    infantry.

    Then come the 1.5 billion Chinese. 4.2 times the U.S. population.

    The current world situation seems to be headed to nuclear confrontation.

    Has Obama/Biden neutered the U.S. nuclear arsenal/capability?

    That’s a very serious concern.

    -Bill Freeman

    1. Bill: Yes, the picture is bleak when we look at the larger map. And yes, the U.S. nuclear arsenal is way past its shelf life and the Biden administration acts as if there is no problem. Can you imagine how quickly Biden would be impeached and jailed if he suddenly decided to fast track our nuclear weapon program, which is not due for a new weapon until 2029? I bet they cancel the whole program before 2029. Or the enemy attacks before we get there.

    2. To add to the worrying anti-US trend in Latin America, the new President of Argentina said Buenos Aires had ‘non-negotiable sovereignty’ over the Falkland Islands.
      https://blend.spectator.co.uk/t/j-l-stydic-tyqtuvkt-c/

      I doubt that weapons given to Ukraine are ending up in the hands of South American drug cartels, unless we are talking about weapons captured by the Russians. We see Western weapons being used to devastating effect against a Russian army that has not been able to advance, even as the aid to Ukraine is slowing down.

  20. Jeff, I posed this to Alex on his YT channel….can you and Alex do a piece about propaganda, ie, how to identify it, how to challenge it, and address how it is being spewed here in America currently regarding the Russian Ukraine war? One can go on YouTube daily and hear the likes of a Douglas Macgregor, former Faux News personalities Tucker Carlson and Clayton Morris who give false facts and all these gentlemen do is spew pro Russia pro Putin story lines to all those
    “conservative Fox News watching” Americans of the political Right. They also include Scott Ritter and Whitney Webb who are both pro Russia, unwilling to call a spade a spade…globalist this, globalist that….deep state this, deep state that, WEF this, WEF that….ALL communist, all communist front groups. And now add Brigitte Gabriel and Laura Loomer to the pro Putin, pro Russia propaganda team. The majority of Americans have no idea, no clue as to what is happening, much less history.

      1. Yes, it’s mentioned. But in my brief experience with activism on the State level w our education’s move to Common Core curriculum, in Missouri, as well as getting rid of fluoride in the city water supply, a lot of folks were clueless how they had the ability and power to make a difference at the local levels, via writing an editorial to their local newspaper, actually running for school board, city council, etc. Opining on a social media post via Facebook is not activism. Getting out and doing something, ie action, IS.

  23. Mmmm, Donald Trump is not going to magically save America in 2024 if elected again. The “conservative” masses in this country are truly ignorant to this as well as the fact they allowed this demise to begin with. They have allowed the creep of Communism into this nation for the past 5+ decades…from the federal level, state level, all the way down to local city councils, churches, and local school boards, by being apathetic and unwilling to be involved in the political process. Meanwhile, the politically active and violent “Reds” quietly continued their revolution to change our once moral, “conservative” and Christian society. And the conservative “voting bloc” all still scratch their heads (figuratively) while literally sitting on their asses today and ask how this happened…America was duped and is doomed as a Republic. It will soon be every man for himself to defend his own, ie, family and property. No one is going to “save” the US from being destroyed.

    1. It is astonishing to see what has happened to the American conservative movement in the last 2-5 years. We can look back and see clearly the seeds being planted 20-30 years ago, but the overt turn –as measured by the explosion of support for Putin and Russia— still came suddenly. I hope the tell-all book about this subversion and Trump’s role in it will be written soon. Did the dog wag the tail or did the tail wag the dog? Was Trump’s seeming admiration of Putin the decisive factor, or was Trump merely getting ahead of the curve, reflecting back what he perceived as the emerging consensus opinion of the conservative masses. More likely these two things were continually reinforcing each other. Maybe the Q nonsense that latched on to the Trump phenomenon was even more instrumental. Even if Trump is just along for the ride and has nothing to do with the larger Communist subversion of the conservative movement, the Trump Phenomenon unleashed an explosion of radical ideas and extreme emotions on the right which have left the movement wide open to subversive influences. The extreme anger and emotion of the conservative echo chamber is matched by the movement’s complete cluelessness and inability to counter Leftist activism on any front –whether local, state, or federal—which makes conservatives even more frustrated and vulnerable to radical Communist narratives. Conservatives have to discover the art of engaging with people and getting things done politically (activism), which is the opposite of hunkering down and venting in their own echo chamber.

      1. Trump seemed to play up the Q messages at moments. If you watch the HBO documentary on Q, the son of the guy who owned the server had gone to China directly after high school. Why? What American leaves to spend a couple years in China after graduating. Then his dad ends up running the server that Q posted on — ? Very odd.

    1. Mmmm, I respect the likes of Michael Yon, Green Beret. Steve Quayle is a nut job. Mike Adams (another unreliable Chicken Little) has him on his channel all the time and this guy spews bs along with advertising satellite phones and other bs. Seems more about taking advantage of the times and making a buck…kinda like another nut job Alex Jones has done with his vitamins and supplement sales…

      3. Yon has noted the numbers of Chinese of military age and fitness crossing the Darien Gap. The same has been noted at the southern border. A number of years ago, a container from China was found by accident filled with infantry weapons and explosives. It is likely a number of them have come in and the weapons waiting at places the troops coming in know about and are simply waiting for orders to draw weapons and strike.

      4. This is what Scott Gulbransen testified to twenty years ago. He found testimony regarding a massive stockpiling of weapons in Mexico by China. He thought they were smuggling some of the weapons into the US through corruption of border agents. Some of his witnesses were murdered. He was threatened.

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    https://yourfoodfortress.com/?affId=82&c1=FAMFITSpyBriefing010624&c2=FAMFITSpyBriefing&c3=ElitespreparingfordisasteronUSA&id=134728986&affid=82&cid=2569&s1=FAMFITSpyBriefing010624&s2=FAMFITSpyBriefing&s3=ElitespreparingfordisasteronUSA&s4=Email21&s5=wms39obbjjhn8e9u2n1bdl2c

  27. Check out the recent news on why Xi is purging the rocket force generals. US assessment says Rockets filled with water instead of fuel, which is why 5 out of 11 recent launches failed (the 5 didn’t launch at all). Allegedly, vast fields of missile silos with lids that don’t actually open properly either. Widescale, but not explained, corruption which they believe means Xi has to wait a few years to cleanup before attacking Taiwan.

    Could be US assessments are wrong… but it fits with my knowledge of China as a country that is corrupt at every level to a clownish amount.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-06/us-intelligence-shows-flawed-china-missiles-led-xi-jinping-to-purge-military

  29. I listened to your talk with Alex on right-wing pro-Russian propagandists. He mentioned that the pro-Russian right went silent for a few days after the invasion, as if waiting for direction on how to frame it. I watch Jack Posobiec’s Telegram channel to monitor this ignorant and curious pro-Russian propaganda/Trump worship thing. He did the exact same thing! He mocked the idea of the invasion, then was silent, then returned with “it didn’t have to be this way,” then switched into full Russia mode.

    1. Yes. Many believed the Russian lie, advanced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergie Lavrov, that there would be no invasion. When I saw the Russian deployments in Crimea and Belarus there was no doubt that an invasion was being prepared. You could see the starting position of the brigades as signifying a huge double envelopment attack. This was no exercise. When the invasion was put off a few days and Lavrov continued to assure folks, I was mocked on Twitter for predicting the invasion. Then the invasion began and many were stunned. It takes time for ideologists to adjust their narrative to a reality they were so keen to deny. And now we see, after almost two years, how far the narrative has shifted. Russia is winning the information war, as usual, but now we see that MAGA is falling for it. Now we have to reevaluate Trump himself.,

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