“Anticommunism and anti-Sovietism … remain the basis of imperialist ideological subversion in developing countries. The dogma and ideology of anticommunism are lies through and through because they ascribe to communism totally fictitious purposes and methods. Even bourgeois scholars admit this.”
-Soviet Textbook, 1984[i]
“Our morality is completely subordinated to the class struggle of the proletariat … everything that is done in the proletarian cause is honest.”
V.I. Lenin[ii]
“[NATO] is making the elites and oligarchs in the United States wealthy…. Working class and middleclass people are in the worst shape they’ve ever been…. The top nineteen families in the United States just made a trillion dollars here…. For the arms merchants in Munich, it turned out great for them…. [Wall Street] is a casino…. The U.S. military are mercenaries for the casino….
Steve Bannon[iii]
The first quote, above, from a Soviet textbook, is important for what it says about the main objective of Moscow’s information war doctrine for the last 100 years; that is, to discredit anticommunism. According to the quoted Soviet text, anticommunism spreads “lies through and through because they ascribe to communism totally fictitious purposes and methods.”[iv]
The second quote, above, is from the founder of the Soviet state, Vladimir Lenin. In his own words, “everything done in the proletarian [i.e., communist] cause is honest.” You can lie, cheat, steal, and murder for the Revolution. There is a long history here, elaborated in such classics as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, Robert Conquest’s Harvest of Sorrow and The Great Terror. As founder of the Soviet State, Lenin outlined the bloody and deceitful course his disciples would follow. Today, Vladimir Putin maintains the Lenin cadaver at the center of Moscow – a precious symbol of what has not been buried. Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev once declared, to a party of NATO officials, that communism would bury them. He also said the Soviet Union would give up communism when crabs learned to whistle. In other words, they will never bury Lenin. Their shovels have a different mission. And Khrushchev pointed the way, here again. As Nikolay Popov explained in a 1 March 1989 article for the Literaturnaya Gazeta, “our main task today … is to divorce Stalinism from communism in the eyes of the world.” He added, “glasnost is our parity, restructuring is our weapon, and destalinization is our main ammunition.”
It was necessary for the future success of communism, said Khrushchev, to blame the failures of communism on Stalin. “In order to dissociate ourselves from Stalinism, from the crimes it committed against mankind, we shall need a court trial of Stalinism as a criminal political system and organization as well as a trial of its main leaders,” noted Popov. But no such trial ever took place. Following Khrushchev’s dictum Gorbachev put the blame on Stalin, but nobody put Stalin on trial. And nobody dared to bury Lenin because Lenin had (in principle) given Stalin the green light to carry out his crimes. Everything done in the proletarian cause was honest.
And now for the third quote, from Steven K. Bannon, who once referred to himself as a “Leninist.”[v] To preface what Bannon says, it is useful to remember that Bannon has taken money from a Chinese billionaire, met secretly with the Russian Eurasianist “philosopher,” Aleksandr Dugin (in November 2018), and flirts with Moscow’s alt-right friends in Europe.[vi] So we should not be surprised to hear Bannon championing the proletariat in an NPR interview. Like Lenin’s followers, Bannon wants to subvert NATO because NATO does not benefit the working man. It is a very strange thing to say that NATO mainly benefits the rich. Like Lenin’s disciples, Bannon opposes the “merchants of death” who are getting rich off arm manufacturing. And like Lenin’s followers, Bannon opposes Wall Street, accusing the U.S. military of being “mercenaries for the casino” of the stockbrokers.[vii]
Bannon appears to believe what Lenin’s followers have always believed; namely, that alliances like NATO exist so that arms manufacturers can get rich. Wars are triggered for the sake of capitalist profit. It follows from this logic that the war in Ukraine is capitalism at work, and fear-mongering about Russian military aggression is capitalist propaganda. In taking this Leninist stance, Bannon cavalierly disregards the vital role of the rich in the wheel of continuous investment so necessary to the maintenance of our high living standard. Too often conservatives have joined with socialists in accepting the claim that capitalism is decadent and prosperity a mixed blessing.
Do we find a higher moral standard in countries where billionaires are hunted for sport? – Or do we find moral degradation, crime, corruption and murder? Perhaps the advance of crime and corruption attends the advance of socialism more than the advance of capitalism. Surely, everyone knows the communists hunted down the rich until none were left. And the societies produced from this were miserably poor and morally degraded.
It is fashionable now to spit on Thomas Macaulay and the Whig Theory of History, without admitting one of Macaulay’s most important observations; namely, that when people are poor, they are meaner. When they are suffering deprivation, they become cruel. Prosperity softens human nature, making life more humane. Macaulay underscored this in the nineteenth century, saying that “It is pleasing to reflect that the public mind of England has softened while it has ripened, and that we have, in the course of ages, become not only wiser but also a kinder people.”[viii] This kindness, said Macaulay, was due to the advance of prosperity which was occasioned by England’s thriving market economy. The great poverty found in earlier centuries coincided with a culture of public cruelty which Macaulay outlined as follows:
“If an offender was put into the pillory, it was well if he escaped with life from the shower of brickbats and paving stones. If he was tied to the cart’s tail, the crowd pressed around him, imploring the hangman to give it the fellow well, and make him howl. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on court days for the purpose of seeing the wretched women who beat hemp there whipped. A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman burned for coining, excited less sympathy than is now felt for a galled horse or an overdriven ox. Fights [took place] compared with which a boxing match is a refined and humane spectacle…. Multitudes assembled to see gladiators hack each other to pieces with deadly weapons, and shouted with delight when one of the combatants lost a finger or an eye. The prisons were hells on earth, seminaries of every crime and of every disease. At the assizes the lean and yellow culprits brought with them from their cells to the dock an atmosphere of stench and pestilence which sometimes avenged them signally on the bench, bar, and jury. But on all this misery society looked with profound indifference. Nowhere could be found that sensitive and restless compassion which has, in our time, extended a powerful protection to the factory child, to the Hindoo widow, to the negro slave, which prise into the stores and watercasks of every emigrant ship, which winces at every lash laid on the back of a drunken soldier, which will not suffer the thief in the hulks to be ill fed or overworked, and which has repeatedly endeavored to save the life even of the murderer.”[ix]
According to Macaulay, a moral change toward compassion in society can be directly attributed to the rising standard of living as well as Christianity. Material progress, despite those who would romanticize earlier times, said Macaulay, was largely responsible for an increase in kindness. It was unfortunate, he added, that people had wrongly asserted “that the increase of wealth and the progress of science have benefitted the few at the expense of the many” so that some talked “of the reign of Queen Victoria as the time when England was truly merry England, when all classes were bound together in brotherly sympathy, when the rich did not grind the faces of the poor, and when the poor did not envy the splendor of the rich.”[x] Such claims were romantic nonsense, Macaulay explained:
“It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts and the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher class of gentry, when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns….”[xi]
Macaulay’s point was that the wealthy investors of the market system have lifted the miserable multitude out of poverty, making society “kinder and gentler” (to borrow an odd phrase from President George H.W. Bush). In a famous letter to an American admirer of Thomas Jefferson, Macaulay warned that the Democratic habit of plundering the rich was the surest way to destroy a country’s seed corn. Steve Bannon’s proletarian outbursts against the rich, against the preservation of seed corn, are therefore demagogic and sinister. Has Leninism suddenly grown a right arm? Here we find a curious inversion of right into left and left into right. Our leftist elites, who stink from morphing their vulgarized Marxism into Wokeism, are now superseded as defenders of the working class by half-baked yahoos like Marjorie Taylor Greene, or confused celebrity journalists like Tucker Carlson, who hold up the banner of the proletariat while calling for an alliance with Moscow.
These changes in the political landscape of the American right, which have come about since the fall of the Soviet Union, are strategically significant. Would they have come about in the absence of Russian or Chinese active measures? One hesitates to point in the direction of the old “communist conspiracy” in explaining these changes. Any serious attempt to relate Lenin’s conspiratorial methods to current political intrigues tends to be dismissed along with the antics of an ever-multiplying army of kooks. These people continually distract the public with absurd claims about fake moon landings, 9/11, and the JFK assassination. An important distinction should be made at this juncture. Lenin’s party of a new type does not present the scholar with a new conspiracy theory. Lenin’s party of a new type is historical fact. There is no theory whatsoever. Lenin’s followers have always used deception and intrigue. They have always used agents of influence and moles. They have always used subterfuge. In this context, the problem nobody wants to discuss is whether communism collapsed in 1991 (or in what sense it collapsed). Did the instrumentalist and Machiavellian push for global dominance by Lenin’s successors come to an end in 1991? Behind apparent splits in the communist movement, and the façade of Russian democracy, an argument might be made that the communists “changed formation” and began to Leninize the American and European right.
From early in his career, Lenin said that the Marxists must organize a centralized, secret, and professionally organized conspiratorial movement. Lenin said that he was “weary of our amateurism….”[xii] He explained, “To be fully prepared for his task, the worker-revolutionary must also become a professional revolutionary.”[xiii] Lenin’s “party of a new type” begins with this. Lenin thought the theorists of social democracy were wrong in opposing the conspiratorial view of the political struggle. The Russian social democrats, he said, were fighting against an absolutist (i.e., tsarist) regime, and in that context conspiratorial organization had to be at the foundation:
“a strong revolutionary organization in an autocratic country may also be described as a ‘conspiratorial’ organization because the French word ‘conspiration’ is the equivalent of the Russian word ‘zagovor (‘conspiracy’), and such an organization must have the utmost secrecy. Secrecy is such a necessary condition for this kind of organization that all the other conditions (number and selection of members, functions, etc.) must be made to conform to it. It would be extremely naïve indeed, therefore, to fear the charge that we social-democrats desire to create a conspiratorial organization. Such a charge should be … flattering….”[xiv]
Please notice Lenin’s emphasis. Secrecy and conspiracy were necessary to his organization and everything born out of his organization. All other considerations must be subordinated to the need for secrecy. Furthermore, secret work cannot be the work of amateurs. Ironically, Lenin’s organizational scheme fostered a situation where the workers would be overtaken by the intellectuals, by the organizers and the professional revolutionaries.
The Great October Revolution of 1917 was supposedly begun for the benefit of the workers, but it benefitted alienated intellectuals, bureaucrats, and the lumpen proletariat instead. From these first principles of Lenin, we see why the proletariat was destined to find itself in the rearview mirror of the Bolsheviks. Everything is done in the name of the working class, for the benefit of the bigmouth sociopaths. Whether Lenin was a sociopath, as some observers have suggested, he was nevertheless a brilliant organizer whose instrumentalist and Machiavellian cast of mind led him to ultimate success in 1917. As Lenin’s successor, Stalin turned the practice of conspiracy against his own colleagues. He wiped out his competitors in the Communist Party Soviet Union (CPSU). In large measure, Soviet power was Stalin and Stalin was Soviet power. His mastery over the conspiratorial machine was absolute. After Stalin’s death in 1953 the Kremlin adopted a “collective leadership” model under Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, and Gorbachev, which continued to pilot the Leninist machine. Only, these people lacked the genius of Lenin and the conspiratorial instincts (or drive) of Stalin. Here Lenin’s system passed from the revolutionary entrepreneurs to the “managers” and bureaucrats. The creative energy of the founders was largely spent, but the intensive organization and systematization of the original ideas continued with more elaborate blueprints, plans, and maneuvers. Gorbachev’s liberalization gambit of 1987-91 was, in Gorbachev’s own words, consistent with Lenin’s “zig-zag” method of advancing the revolutionary cause. It is difficult to estimate the severity of the setbacks then experienced, which continued under Boris Yeltsin’s Russian Federation. A period of adjustment and cautious Sovietization began under Putin in 2000. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Sovietization has been accelerating. The events of 1989-1991 led almost everyone to believe the Leninist project was shipwrecked. But today’s situation suggests the revolutionary ship has been repaired. As Lenin wrote in May 1904, “One step forward, two steps back.” When he reiterated this theme under different circumstances in 1922, at the Eleventh Party Congress, he admitted, “Retreat is a difficult matter, especially for revolutionaries….”
Having noted these points, the pressing question goes something like this: Where is Lenin’s conspiratorial organization now? Did it break into fragments and die? Did it get absorbed by organized crime? Did it disappear, or has it been functioning all the while? The communists in Beijing, Pyongyang, Havana, and Hanoi cannot have forgotten their ABCs of Leninism. This was their mother’s milk. Even if the West never bothered to read Lenin, or understand his program, his followers certainly understood him. It must be acknowledged that the Soviet Union was not the alpha and omega of the socialist camp. Yes, Moscow was the General Staff of the World Revolution, the cradle of the Revolution, the Motherland of Socialism. But why would the events of 1991 change that? Where did the CPSU party elite go? Answer: They were still in Moscow. They still had their jobs. They still had their nuclear weapons. And they still had Marxist friends around the world. The massive communist parties of Asia, and those of Africa and Latin America (however disguised by the façade of social democracy) were clearly able to carry Lenin’s plan forward after 1991. The old Soviet elite continued to staff the Russian Federation government. When and where was Leninism finally defeated? “Two steps back” was not final defeat in 1904, 1922, or 1991. It was a dance. Here is the reason they have not buried Lenin.
There is another odd point that nobody has thought through. Marx and Lenin both taught that Marxism was not an ideology. If so, how could Marxist-Leninist ideology be dead? How can an ideology be pronounced dead when its founders denied it was an ideology? If Marx and Lenin did not create an ideology, then what did they create? Supposedly, a theory of social science (i.e., scientific socialism), with the objective of taking control of history through political conquest. Lenin once characterized Marxism as the scientific management of human affairs. If the Marxist-Leninists in Moscow were following a scientific path, their politics might change with knowledge and experience. At bottom, however, one thing could never change. The practice of Marxism came down to the science of concentrating power in the hands of the Marxists. Since Lord Acton was right about absolute power tending to corrupt absolutely, the outcome of Marxist-Leninist practice was foreseeable. It ended up as something criminal. It brought into existence a scientific gangsterism, organized on a massive scale, with lying, stealing, cheating, and murdering at the center of its activity.
“A good secret apparatus requires a good, professional training of the revolutionaries and a division of labor,” Lenin explained.[xv] Putin is exactly this kind of revolutionary. Xi Jinping is also a cadre of the Leninist movement. This is why they are working together. But Western analysts do not recognize the ongoing existence of a Leninist conspiratorial movement. They think it stopped working in 1991, if it ever functioned at all. The great mistake that historians and political analysts have made, is the mistake of thinking Leninist institutions are normal, that they can be judged as mere continuations of older Russian or Chinese or North Korea institutions. Even Eric Voegelin denied there was anything special about Stalin’s regime. It was a continuation of Russia and Russia’s national interest with a red flag. Stalin was merely continuing the old policies of the tsars.
There is an important difference between the tsars and the commissars, between Nicholas II and Vladimir Putin. The former KGB lieutenant colonel adheres to the criminal and Machiavellian methods advocated by Lenin. He is cynical in the Leninist sense. While national and tribal leaders have engaged in lying, killing, and plundering throughout history, they have never gone so far as to make it a principle – a “good thing” which must be practiced for the sake of attaining absolute mastery over mankind.
Vladimir Putin has been quite clear in all his statements over the years. He was a professional communist thug, trained by the “sword and shield” of the Communist Party Soviet Union (i.e., KGB). With this in his background, Putin has lamented the fall of the Soviet Union. In 2017 he told a gathering of communist youth at Sochi that he believed in them. He has admitted that he never burned his party card, and he says Leninism is essentially the same as Christianity. While he should have turned Lenin’s Mausoleum into a museum for the victims of communism, he has kept Lenin’s corpse in Red Square. A traditional Russian person, like Nicholas II, could not have done any of these things.
Why do we suppose communist North Korean troops are fighting on Russia’s side in Ukraine? Why is communist China helping Russia? Why are Russian and Chinese troops helping the communist regime in Venezuela? Why are Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies based in communist Cuba? Russian television propaganda is very clear. Moscow’s enemy is still Wall Street and the Pentagon, NATO and “the globalists” (i.e., capitalists). Therefore, the present situation is the same as that of the Cold War. Nothing fundamental has changed for Moscow. However, America’s political flank has been turned. The American right is beginning to sound like Pravda.
The KGB defector, Anatoliy Golitsyn, predicted the coming of a liberal Soviet leader before Gorbachev came to power. Only, Golitsyn warned this liberalism would be a façade, as it turned out to be. At least two other defectors, since that time, have warned that the Russian Federation seeks the destruction of America even more than the Soviet Union. First, we have GRU Col. Stanislav Lunev, and SVR defector Sergei Tretyakov.[xvi] But who pays any attention to such people? And here America sits, largely disarmed, with an overaged nuclear arsenal. All Western countries are reluctant to pay the price for rearmament. They all point at each other. Only the smaller countries, like Sweden and Finland, the Baltic States and Poland, are putting their shoulders to the wheel. And then, with Bannon’s statement, we find that the American right, which traditionally stood for national security, has been intellectually disarmed.
Clearly, the disillusioned epigones of the old American conservatism are flirting with “traditionalism” and “authoritarianism” and “Dark Enlightenment” to obviate their own nihilism. But this obviation is not a cure. It is another iteration of the disease they pretend to be fighting. Is there any other way to read Michael Anton or Nick Land or Curtis Yarvin? Like the nihilists of the left, these writers are stuck in the tarpits of an imagined political religion on its way to a violent apocalyptic end. More and more, they glance back to Hitler, thinking the solution lies in authoritarianism and dictatorship. Only they are not Hitler. Instead, they would be Nicholas II; and so, quite innocently, they believe their adventure will not end badly. But they have not recognized that their offerings are made to the same god as Hitler’s (i.e., to the god of power, and to the god of politics as a religion). These demoralized and broken souls have forgotten their heritage. They have forgotten to look back to George Washington. Unwittingly they move toward a Punch and Judy Show where the puppets are hollowed-out cadavers (i.e., Lenin vs. Nicholas II). In this matter they are crawling towards a civil war, with the White Army opposing the Red Army. What makes them think the Whites can win?
One turns the pages of Nick Land’s book, The Dark Enlightenment, and reads, “The regular, excruciating, soul-crushing humiliation of conservatism on the race issue should come as no surprise to anybody. After all, the principal role of conservatism in modern politics is to be humiliated.”[xvii] But Nick Land has committed a fundamental error by writing this, because conservatism has nothing left to conserve. His rotting eyeball cannot see anything! Of course mankind is tribal! Wokeism deserves to be laughed at, not argued with! Need we wring our hands over Hitlerism, and carve out a Hobbesian argument while quoting Thomas Carlyle to the advantage of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping? This all-too-sensitive neuroticism about Europe’s crimes against humanity, projecting itself onto the old conservatism, combined with a ridiculously naïve grasp of where this ends, shows that Nick Land never recognized the great political mortuary of late modernity, with its army of undertakers, doing for the West what Moscow’s embalmers have done for Lenin. Someone should tell Professor Land, “Yes, you have seen a rotting corpse. Why haven’t you understood that the conservatives are undertakers? And you are also an undertaker, aligning one corpse against another. Yes, there will be military juntas and wars and dictators. But the Constitution of the United States is a glorious thing. Freedom is good. Hold onto it while you can.”
George Washington and the Founding Fathers are not dead in the same sense that Lenin or Nicholas II are. Washington and the Founding Fathers built something good which we have inherited. Authoritarianism and fascism may come to America, but nobody should pretend there is anything good or helpful in formulating new ideologies which falsify history and delude people. Let us not pretend the White Army is the answer. The old antisemitism is returning with its forgeries and false stories about Jews and Masons. Many people cling to these stories, reading only conspiracy books. Ultimately they will find themselves absorbed by Lenin’s cynical machine.
In all this it appears to me that Lenin’s “party of a new type” did not disappear in 1991. Lenin has not been buried. Communism is, by its own admission, conspiratorial.[xviii] When people feel alienated, when society is marching into darkness, there is a tendency to reach for revolutionary solutions (of the right or left). This situation can be exploited by hostile foreign powers, especially if those foreign powers are led by communists with a long history of revolutionary dabbling.
One should continually point to the facts. All the communist countries around the world, including the new ones that were established after 1991 (like South Africa, Congo, Venezuela, Brazil, Nepal, etc.) are helping Russia, are working with China and North Korea and Cuba. The fall of the Soviet Union was not a straightfoward event. We have Karen Dawisha’s book on Putin’s Kleptocracy, and Heidi Blake’s From Russia With Blood, indicating that the old Kremlin murder machine continues to operate. These books suggest that Putin has been a gangster. He has supervised assassinations, money laundering, and international drug trafficking.[xix] No statesman should sit down with Putin and make nice. Whatever label we care to use for the Russian regime, it is a criminal enterprise aligned with all the communist powers. As such it is a deadly threat to the United States. Anyone who collaborates with Russia, or repeats Russian propaganda talking points, should be regarded as an enemy of the United States.
Objectively, Ukraine is fighting America’s most dangerous enemy. Ukraine is therefore our greatest ally. Furthermore, NATO is essential to American interests because Russia must not be allowed to conquer Europe or otherwise convert it into a base of operations against North America. President Trump’s policy has not been solidly behind Ukraine or NATO. Like other American presidents, Trump wants a Russian reset. But this will not work. Doing business with Moscow and Beijing has always been a mistake. The West has bought Putin’s gas and oil. We have sold our technology to Moscow. Mass murder has thereby been enabled. Death and destruction has rained down on Ukraine since the “special military operation” was ordered by Vladimir Putin with the approval of Russia’s Federation Council. This invasion of a sovereign country was in violation of solemn treaties and agreements, deceptively justified by historical distortions and outright lies. All of this showcased a government without moral scruple. The whole pre-invasion charade was hideously indecent. This same Ork assembly might one day ask for a “special military operation” against Alaska.
The Russian government is, as of mid-May, calling up “military priests” and preparing new divisions, new brigades, new air units for a widening of the curent war.[xx] Yesterday, NATO military transports were rushing reinforcements to the threatened city of Vilnius, which lies between the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus. The Russian military buildup is unmistakable. Putin is not interested in peace. At the same time, China is increasing its military support to Russia; and all the while, Lenin remains unburied in Moscow.
Secrecy is a Leninist thing. Lying is a Leninist thing. Killing is a Leninist thing. But burying Lenin would not be a Leninist thing. Here is our measuring stick for the Russian Federation and Vladimir Putin. Of course, history is not the story of a single master conspiracy. Lenin is not a god who controls history. He is a sociopath who set up a new kind of regime. My question: Is that regime, in altered form, continuing to advance?
Conclusion
More than a week ago I was invited to Jeremy’s radio show on RBN, In Plain Site, to debate Dr. James Fetzer on the Kennedy assassination. Fetzer is supposedly a famous expert on such things. While he was certain that everyone with a motive to kill Kennedy was waiting there with a firearm on 22 November 1963, I was baffled that he would not connect the crime to the man who bought the murder weapon from a mail order house, carried the murder weapon (disguised as “curtain rods”) to work that morning, and built the sniper nest on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building.
There is no doubt in my mind that Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy. Being familiar with the evidence against Oswald, I was floored when “Dr.” Fetzer refused to address any of it. At one point, after refusing to discuss the facts, he accused me of being “dishonest,” fantastically asserting there were six assassins lined up against Kennedy on 22 November 1963, all six firing within the same 8.4 seconds. To be sure, one of these alleged shooters was an agent of Mossad!
That no reliable witnesses to these shooters appeared on the day of the shooting was not explained. That the Dallas police and Secret Service did not see them, was not explained. That most people present heard three shots, not six – was not explained. The callers to the show were uniformly disgusted with me. I was repeatedly castigated for not understanding the power of the conspiracy. In one of the final comic moments, Fetzer lamented that I had missed the main thread of history, which was in essence a grand conspiracy against us all. I had missed that the Apollo moon landings were a hoax, that 9/11 was an inside job, that the Kennedy assassination was a six-man firing squad. How could I be so stupid as to have missed all this?
It is not possible to answer such a question, for answering would have required a rational interlocutor. That the question was insane, that the interlocutor out of touch with reality, was perfectly clear. Of course, he was not some homeless schizophrenic rummaging through dumpsters. He was on the radio! But he did represent a form of insanity.
In this context, Eric Voegelin spoke about the people who followed Hitler. He said that a large section of the population had become bored with reality. They wanted something better than reality. They wanted a divertissement; that is, an entertainment. According to Voegelin, divertissement “is a matter of a determinate social class, which is indeed in the first reality but bored by it – that again is a condition of moral decline up to a certain level.”[xxi]
People who are bored with reality, noted Voegelin, long for an entertaining “second reality.” People indulge in this second reality because “it is fun.” But this is a dangerous kind of fun, because real reality (first reality) can get lost. What is created, through the narratives of divertissement, are concepts and symbols divorced from reality. Conspiracy theorists like Fetzer use logic to arrange and rearrange their narratives into symbolic systems. But these symbols are not connected to reality. Fetzer never made an argument based on known facts about the JFK assassination. He dismissed all the known facts because all these were part of the conspiracy. Once you invoke conspiracy, no rules of evidence apply. Only the laws of conspiracy count, and those laws state that there is a master conspiracy that sits behind every major event. It is massive and efficient. Any evidence showing there is no such conspiracy is proof that the conspiracy is good at covering its tracks.
Incredibly, a very intelligent correspondent of many years, recently said that he doubted there was a massacre of children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on 14 December 2012, and that Alex Jones had been railroaded in court. This was very crazy, of course. I was dumbfounded. My correspondent had found the divertissement of Alex Jones’s “second reality” so persuasive, that his whole discourse had long since been contaminated with narratives about “building No. 7” of the WTC, and a missile hitting the Pentagon rather than a jet liner on 9/11, etc. No rational argument is possible against these people. No evidence counts. No testimony counts. In practice, conspiracy theorists are are epistemological nihilists. Eric Voegelin maintained that this kind of nihilism “pertains to a collapse of a society, when loss of reality and lack of contact with reality occur … because the intellectual contact of man with reality is interrupted.”[xxii]
This is frightening, and I believe we are watching some kind of collapse. There is an intellectual disconnect in America and the world. A black spot of ignorance is spreading. It takes the form of wanting an alliance with Russia against China. Contained in this formula is a tendency to despise the victims of Russian aggression in Ukraine. In terms of American national security policy, it is every bit as insane as Fetzer’s view of the JFK assassination.
People who live in a false reality share a certain incapacity. Meimito von Doderer, in a novel titled The Demons, said that a revolutionary “is someone who wants to change the general situation because of the impossibility or untenability of his own position….” Whether we are talking about the Bolshevik Revolution, the National Socialist Revolution, the Woke Revolution, or the Trump Revolution, we may be talking about personalities who are unable to endure themselves. These people have, suggested Doderer, “abandoned” the concrete task of their own life in pursuit of something false. Voegelin explained, “that the revolution [they espouse] carries out a systematic falsification of history” which grandiosely elevates them to the rank of saviors and truth-tellers. Such are the political madmen of every era, so that “anyone who is not alienated from the first reality can only commit high treason.”[xxiii]
Weekly Discussion
Notes and Links
[i] A. Grachev & N. Yermoshkin, A New Information Order or Psychological Warfare? (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1984), p. 137.
[ii] V.I. Lenin, Collected Works Vol. 41, 5th Ed. (Russian), p. 310.
[iii] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGKFJPbaFLc , see minute 14 where the NPR interviewer asks Bannon about Trump’s willingness to abandon NATO.
[iv] See Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joseph McCarthy, by M. Stanton Evans.
[v] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/06/lenin-white-house-steve-bannon
[vi] Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right (USA/UK: Penguin Books, 2021), p. 141.
[vii] As found after 14 minutes during this NPR interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGKFJPbaFLc
[viii] Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England, Vol. I (New York: A.L. Burt Company), p. 330.
[ix] Ibid, pp. 330-331.
[x] Ibid., p. 333.
[xi] Ibid, p. 332.
[xii] V.I. Lenin trans. Fineberg and Hanna, What Is To Be Done? (London: Penguin Books, 1988), p. 189.
[xiii] Ibid, p. 193.
[xiv] Ibid, p. 197.
[xv] Ibid, p. 205.
[xvi] See the introduction to the book, Comrade J, by Pete Earley.
[xvii] Nick Land, The Dark Enlightenment, p. 49.
[xviii] See, especially, V.I. Lenin, What is to Be Done?
[xix] Information regarding Vladimir Putin’s direct, proven involvement in drug trafficking in Spain is complex and involves investigations into Russian organized crime with alleged links to individuals close to him. Here’s a breakdown:
- Spanish Investigations:
- Spanish authorities have conducted investigations into Russian organized crime networks operating in Spain, with some of these investigations alleging connections to individuals close to Putin.
- These investigations have uncovered a range of criminal activities, including drug trafficking, arms trafficking, money laundering, and corruption.
- Reports indicate that Spanish authorities have issued arrest warrants for several Russians, some of whom are described as close associates of Putin, suspected of ties to organized crime.
- It is important to understand that allegations of association with people, does not mean direct involvement of Putin himself.
- Allegations of High-Level Connections:
- There are allegations that these criminal networks have managed to infiltrate Spanish public institutions, allowing them to operate with a degree of impunity.
- Reports highlight that individuals connected to these networks include high-ranking criminals, lawyers, officials, politicians, and businesspeople.
- Some reports indicate that Spanish prosecutors have accused former top Russian officials of having links to these criminal activities.
- Key points to consider:
- The investigations highlight the complex relationship between organized crime and potential state connections.
- The investigations have uncovered evidence of high level Russian organized crime within Spain, and some of those people have been said to be close to Putin.
- It is important to distinguish between allegations and proven facts. While there are allegations of connections, definitively proving direct involvement by Vladimir Putin is a complex matter.
Source is from AI – Gemini.
[xx] See the work of Lee Wheelbarger, linked on this webpage.
[xxi] Eric Voegelin, Hitler and the Germans, p. 242.
[xxii] Ibid, p. 251.
[xxiii] Ibid, p. 256.
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149 responses to “Political Fantasy vs. Reality: Why Lenin Remains Above Ground in Moscow”
Great analysis! Funny enough, I felt inspired the other day to translate your article of Feb. 19, 2020 titled, “Paranoid Ideation in Political Discourse”, which perfectly fits this new article. Should be complete tomorrow.
Otherwise, for those who are interested in what the new Pope, Leo XIV, is about, here is a piece I published on May 15:
“From Pope Francis (so called) to Now Pope Leo XIV: The Revolutionary Nightmare Continues …”
https://thecontemplativeobserver.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/from-pope-francis-so-called-to-now-pope-leo-xiv-the-revolutionary-nightmare-continues/
I am very interested in your analysis of the new Pope. This is a surprising choice, a Pope born and raised in the same part of the country that I was. I always thought of most Pope’s as Europeans. Knowing my own generation’s deficits…
He is NOT the Pope as the Church and Divine Law nullifies all such “conclaves” as these apostates who do NOT practice the Catholic religion, which is nothing else but Catholic Tradition, do NOT have the authority nor membership nor any clerical office and they are not true Cardinals, so they do not have any authority to assemble in a valid Catholic Papal Conclave and elect the true Pope – and such election of a heretic (Novus Ordo sectarian) by his colleagues in this sacrilege, is NULL and utterly VOID….
Apostolic Constitution Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio, Pope Paul IV, 1559 AD, point #6 – QUOTE:
If ever at any time it shall appear that any Bishop, even if he be acting as an Archbishop, Patriarch or Primate; or any Cardinal of the aforesaid Roman Church, or, as has already been mentioned, any legate, or even the Roman Pontiff, prior to his promotion or his elevation as Cardinal or Roman Pontiff, has deviated from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: the promotion or elevation, even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, void and worthless; it shall not be possible for it to acquire validity (nor for it to be said that it has thus acquired validity) through the acceptance of the office, of consecration, of subsequent authority, nor through possession of administration, nor through the putative enthronement of a Roman Pontiff, or Veneration, or obedience accorded to such by all, nor through the lapse of any period of time in the foregoing situation. UNQUOTE.
MOREOVER, Canon 2314, 1917 Code of Canon Law excommunicates all these apostates from the membership in the Catholic Church, so they do NOT hold any clerical offices in the Catholic Church and are thus excluded from validly having any authority to elect the true Pope….so this fellow is only a layman impostor, he is not so much as a valid Catholic Priest, as this apostate Novus Ordo Sect does NOT have valid Priestly Ordinations nor Episcopal Consecrations….
So anyone who calls these people Catholic and uses the clerical offices these apostates do NOT possess, comits sacrilege in front of God.
So who is the real Pope?
This information remains deeply CLASSIFIED….
(Have to get ready to go to the TRUE Mass now)….
Very impressive and comprehensive article on the newPope and the Catholic Church, by the way. You covered many aspects.
He is clearly a radical leftist and “social justice warrior” who has drunk over 20 years from the poisonous wells of Latin America’s Marxist liberation theology. He supports the climate change hoax. He is all in favour of continuing mass immigration into Europe and America. And of course, during his years in Peru, he befriended one of the key figures of liberation theology, Gustavo Gutiérrez (who only died last October at the advanced age of 96). And yet he has put on the deceptive mask of being a “moderate”. As a consequence, even vast parts of conservative and traditionalist Catholics are going to fall, and already have fallen, for him. Below is an appearance of Gustavo Gutiérrez at Boston College in November 2015, who was in fact a “close advisor” to “Pope” Francis (radical Marxists among themselves!), and this new Leo XIV has already made it clear that he will continue in the footsteps of his predecessor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8utDwPwnzJs&t=3s
Pacepa wrote that this communist Liberation Theology was concocted by the KGB in that infamous KGB anti-religion directorate….so this guy, this apostate who is not Catholic and MOST CERTAINLY not the Pope, is evidently connected to the KGB strategy and communist active measures against the Church.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/04/secret-roots-liberation-theology/
This Novus Ordo Sect has the heretical re-enactment of the Last Supper and calls it the “Mass”, but St. Paul in 1 Cor. 11 : 26 – 27 states the following:
QUOTE: For as often you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of our Lord until he come. Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of our Lord unworthily., he shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of our Lord…UNQUOTE.
St. Thomas Aquinas says in Summa (on the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, the Rite of this Sacrament), Reply to Obj. 2: QUOTE: As the representation of this Sacrament is an image representing Christ’s Passion, so the altar is representative of the cross itself, upon which Christ was sacrificed in His proper species…UNQUOTE (meaning – his species – as a man He was sacrificed on the Cross of Calvary).
So the ceremony this Novus Ordo Sect has, which is the Montini’s 1969 HERETICAL re-enactment of the Last Supper and it is NOT the true Catholic Mass, )and Montini had proven secret connections to the Kremlin even when he was still Under-Secretary of State in the Vatican when Pius XII was still the Pope), so such people are NOT Catholic and thus they have no authority nor jurisdiction to elect the Pope nor to do anything else in the Catholic Church.
He has already used, in these last two hours, his solemn inauguration Mass on St. Peter’s square for uttering a massive critique of capitalism! I still need to review the whole event.
Always, these educated fools cling to socialism as a faith. Their understanding of economy and society is shallow in the sense of being childish. They must have a better society, though the thing they reach for is a square circle and cannot ever exist. One ends up in lies, confusion, anger, recrimination and mass murder in attempting to square the circle of society. They want us all to beat our heads against the wall for their childish political sense, which is how monsters like Stalin and Putin emerge.
Also, it was extremely painful to watch all the world’s so-called dignitaries standing in line to pay their respects. There’s simply nobody there any more who has class. Not even one. (Which sadly includes the aristocracy, who are now a bunch of democratised nullities.) I still neeed to re-watch the whole thing, but I did see how amicable this new “moderate Pope’s” exchange visibly was with Colombia’s Marxist guerilla/professor President Gustavo Petro.
“These do sound like code words.”
This fellow is stone-cold and slippery as an eel. And such level of shrewd deceptiveness, even gas-lighting, is frightening.
It’s so odd because his brother seems very right wing and supports him. Is the brother totally clueless? I suppose he must be.
Here is the anti-capitalist (and pro-mass immigration) passage from the new Pope’s homily during his inauguration Mass on Sunday, May 18, 2025 (emphases in capitals mine):
“In this our time, we still see too much discord, too many wounds caused by hatred, violence, PREJUDICE, THE FEAR OF DIFFERENCE, AND AN ECONOMIC PARADIGM THAT EXPLOITS THE EARTH’S RESOURCES AND MARGINALIZES THE POOREST.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/264191/full-text-pope-leo-xivs-homily-at-inaugural-mass-beginning-his-petrine-ministry
He is just as radical as his predecessor, only slightly more strategic.
These do sound like code words.
What I sense is that we may now be entering, far beyond the confines of Catholicism, a completely new level of Orwellian gaslighting and subsequent persecution (given the degree of deceptiveness of this new “Pope”). There are already so-called theologians and Catholic pundits fantasising about, literally, a brave, new world (it has this Huxleyan feel as well) thoroughly divided into good and evil. They, the revolutionaries, of course being the “good ones”, while not just the alt-right in general and MAGA in particular, but any conservative or “reactionary” opposing their revolution will be branded as unacceptable and thus as worthy of extinction. The rhetoric even reminds one of their crazy slandering a few years ago of “vaccine sceptics”. I think the overly self-assured idiots of the alt-right don’t realise how heavily the left is now, globally, zeroing in on anyone and everyone who isn’t part of their collective march towards Utopia …
Perhaps it will be a war between the crazy and stupid….
Right! And both of the two lack goodness, precisely because, in the first case, they are “way too intelligent”, and in the second, because they can’t even hold the most basic thought of good or bad in their birdbrains. And yet, it’s the combination of them that makes it so scary.
The intelligent have been exiled.
Jeff, who have been exiled? The intelligent? Or the wise?
I have seen enough statements by people with high IQs that were very foolish, enough so that I no longer trust the so-called “intelligent”.
From an ancient statement, “those whom the gods wish to destroy, they make mad first.” How is what we now face not madness from both sides?
A person might have a high IQ, but they have to use it for it to matter. Wisdom is always rare, but these people are not using their intelligence.
“Are we sure he is not merely playing along with the Liberation theology people?”
Well, his brother John (the middle brother who still lives outside of Chicago today) didn’t sound particularly conservative to me (he’s a retired Catholic school principal, which essentially tells us nothing). And in the CBS interview, he clearly stated, with confidence and joy, that Robert Prevost / Leo XIV WILL BE a second Pope Francis!
Otherwise, all the jubilations from the very leftwing quarters are telling too. And, given his choice of name, why does he solely name Leo XIII’s “social encyclical”, Rerum Novarum, as if Leo XIII had been halfway a socialist, rather than fighting socialism with every fibre of his being?
He was living in liberation-theology-infested Latin America for 20 years and befriended with one of the leaders of liberation theology, Gustavo Gutiérrez. No, this is NOT a conservative or a “compromise candidate”. No way. He ostentatiously avoided saying even one single word in English when appearing on the balcony as the new Pope. He fully identifies with the leftist cause of “liberating the poor”. He isn’t a conservative appeasing the left, but a leftist deceptively posing as a moderate!
Towards the end of his address on Monday, May 19, to representatives of other churches and other world religions, this new Pope said this (capitals mine):
“To all of you, representatives of other religious traditions, I express my gratitude for your participation in this meeting and for your contribution to peace. In a world wounded by violence and conflict, each of the communities represented here brings its own contribution of wisdom, compassion and commitment to the good of humanity and the preservation of our common home. I am convinced that if we are in agreement, and free from ideological and political conditioning, we can be effective in saying ‘no’ to war and ‘yes’ to peace, ‘no’ to the arms race and ‘yes’ o disarmament, ‘no’ to an economy that impoverishes peoples and the Earth and ‘yes’ to integral development.”
So he very much is an advocate of (unilateral) Obamaesque disarmament, of the Conciliar-“progressive” idea of all religions equally “contributing” to the well-being and spiritual enlightenment of the world, of “social justice”, anti-capitalism and the “Green” madness of crippling the economy!
Yes. That speech is pretty damning.
The only question is whether the new utopia that the Russian/Chinese communists are presenting will be of the left-wing or right-wing variety. I think it will be presented as different things to different people, and the crazy and stupid on both sides who have become divorced from reality from years of consuming disinformation will see what they have been conditioned to see. It sounds like an impossible balancing act, to appeal to both hardcore socialists and fervent traditionalists at the same time, but in reality Russia is doing that every day with the Russian population. Under Putin the communists have perfected the convergence of left and right, and the melding of communist socialism with traditionalist elements.
If Russia’s ambitious plan to attack NATO and cut off Ukraine from the rear succeeds, won’t this be the ultimate validation of the conspiracy-laden “traditionalist” populism that Russia been spewing out for 2+ decades? A sudden cataclysmic sequence of events could be the foundational stone for a new world religion.
In any case, a good example is Stalinistic communist Sarah Wagenknecht (* 1969) in Germany, who’s been married, interestingly, since 2014, to Oskar Lafontaine (* 1943), once chairman of the SPD. Wagenknecht has been the great “charismatic” figure in “Die Linke” (The Left), which is a mere continuation of former communist East Germany’s “Socialist Unity Party of Germany”. And about a year ago she left her party and launched her own thing, “Bündnis Sarah Wagenknecht”, by which she essentially tries to push forward her same old communism, albeit with a slight rightwing-populist bent, and appears to seek a gradual convergence with the alt-right AfD party, that is currently making so much headlines. So, it’s already happening. And I agree that they’ve meanwhile created so much ideological confusion that it’s quite conceivable that by now they can use any vector that pleases them for further advancing their Revolution.
As for the Pope, his shake-hands with Gustavo Petro, the Marxist from Colombia, was VERY heartfelt; so was the exchange (whatever may have been said) with Australia’s recently re-elected leftie PM Albanese. Not to mention Peru’s President Dina Boluarte of the Marxist “Free Peru” party, who was visibly very happy about seeing her fellow leftist as Pope. There is absolutely no question where this fellow (meaning, Leo) stands, and I expect he may greatly contribute to the overall confusion and subtle undermining of the West. Although an American, he despises America (otherwise they wouldn’t have elected him). He was elected basically as a champion of the Third World and of Latin America’s Marxist liberation theology (having been personally befriended with that dreadful revolutionary in sheep’s clothing, Gustavo Gutiérrez).
Are we sure he is not merely playing along with the Liberation theology people?
Laura: Excellent point you make about the Kremlin already creating a regime of right/left convergence in Russia. It is a point I neglected to make.
Here is now my German translation of “Paranoid Ideation in Political Discourse” (Feb. 19, 2020):
https://jrnyquistdeutsch.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/paranoide-vorstellungen-im-politischen-diskurs/
Thank you.
https://youtu.be/T-u4d6Zwdns
This video comes from possibly Russian KGB officer, no name, and it looks like very sophisticated provocation, but with lot of details about Trump and his 1987 and 1996 Kremlin visits and that he met with KGB professionals who were in fact in charge of his recruitment.
It is worth wotching and to consider that many points are clear about Trump and now even more, how he plans to withdraw US military from Europe, which is by far the worst kind of pro-Russian move there is, and his involvement in the “peace talks” between the agressor Russia and the defending sovereign country Ukraine.
Mr. Nyquist, you have added some of the comments to the previous posting you made and then you had closed the comment section, not giving the opportunity to respond. You have many valuable points but the main thing about communism and those who don’t oppose it (oppose it enough) is the necessary failure of the western governments, now so much penetrated by KGB assets, which the Russian communists have built up and are counting on so much now…for the victory of communism worldwide.
People are either incompetent or involved in the communist strategy and ideologically so. Trump is one of such people (involved and evidently ideologically as well) and the video link above gives some more details, although some of them would be hard to verify.
The US cannot afford to have somebody like Trump or some other democrat or so called republican at the helm of the country, because the potential that that person or people would be KGB controlled is very high and these are extremely evil times when the grave danger of communism is much higher than at any other time in history…and so to have another Kerensky type people as leaders is extremely perilous for the freedom and liberty of conscience to survive, or to say, to remain preserved and protected.
That Trump is not the right person is painfully clear, and will be so after people view this above Russian video – with that initial point in mind that precisely that Trump is involved with them, they allowed this to be published as the reversed psy-op strategy, to discredit the truth and to stirr up confusion….which is the mark of the highly experienced KGB professionals involved – and precisely that they react this way is the visible evidence that Trump and his “credibility” is being protected by them at the cost of publishing this kind of videos.
And as Sen. McCarthy pointed out – if they were merely stupid, they would have occasionally made a mistake in our favor (meaning they would have done something substantial anti-communist). Trump so far only talks, but the substantial anti-communist results are MIA…missing – and it is not a coincidence that they are missing.
And so one should avoid the perilous luxury to compromise on the truth instead of strictly adhering to it at all times….because the days are very very evil, and it is also the Catholic Church’s doctrine that all Catholics must be anti-communist to the core, nothing less nor any compromises are permissible.
To add more on this subject – Russian communists need their controlled opposition so that they even order such seemingly anti-Russian or anti-Chinese “economic sanctions” to be implemented, but what is the important part and orders that must be obeyed by all recruited agents, is their influence must remain passive when the Russian and Chinese communist warmachine begins to roll – for the obvious purpose that the possibility of the US nuclear retaliation is ever eliminated – and so everything else must look normal, “conservative” and even “Christian” – on the surface that is, so that the legend and cover-up remain intact…
And BTW, the tarriffs that Trump imposed on China are for 90 days on hold and lowered to 30 %, and the CCP supposedly reportedly lowered them on their side to 10 % on US goods. And more cooperation with these communist criminals should be expected, as Trump wants to have good relationship with these atheistic criminals and trulu illegitimate governments….which is one of the main points why he is their man…besides the facts surrounding him already. And yes, it was he who gave Bahrain back to the Moscow controlled Taliban…now he says he wants it back, but HOW that will be accomplished he is not saying nor explaining….and the Panama Canal is the same thing, much talk and now all is quiet again….because the CCP criminals don’t want to give it up…nor does Moscow and Trump simply must obey OR else.
We are in deep trouble.
…YES, you are.
Yes. Certain compromises should not be made.
Watch the video, it is a professional work, well worth the time. All about Trump will become clearer – and if this is something honest, thar person has risked his life to produce this…if he’s still alive. BUt the initial opinion about it stands – so far.
I just knew that Trump was selected in 2016 and 2024. I have also known for the past 35 years that he is slimy. My instincts were right about him. Also, I think at this point Putin and the rest of the communists want us to know just how captured the U.S. is. At the end he says how he has people working to stop this but I can’t see how this can possibly happen.
The linked video says it all – for the KGB he was a perfect target and Ivana was helping it to happen. What kind of a wife that came from that communist Hell would let her husband there, to the Kremlin (!!!) and during the nuclear stand off in 1987, UNLESS she was involved – and the video says this clearly. Also what is interesting in it is that the author questions the attempted PA attack on Trump and calls it directly staged…so he as former KGB officer knew that they are capable to stage something so difficult as that….this was a big point in the overall analysis, because – if this video is provocation then they are forced to admit that they have the means to stage something like this as what has happened in Butler, PA – and the FBI apparently was very quick to wash the roof and to clear the body and so on, to clean up the area after the “shooter” was killed….and so it is alarming how far they have progressed in such operations as this one and they have truly the fanaticism to go ahead with it and carry it out so that few are suspicious of it. But it truly looked like there was something fishy about it from the beginning – too easy, too lax security which normally doesn’t happen – so why was it now and at the same time when Trump got shot UNLESS it was meant to be for that very purpose of staging it so that he gets elected for sure.
And if they have used something more sophisticated or had someone as a truly specialist marksman, either way it was successful.
In regards to the over and over repeated JFK Dallas shooting, why would anyone question the fact that the KGB and Castro wanted Kennedy dead and that they used some CPUSA asset as Oswald to carry it out – people are looking at too much conspiracies without reflecting how does it resonate with the clear facts. It truly seems like some kind of provocation to lead people away from the more important and present time developments in politics etc…
I completely agree with you.
After awhile, I had to give in to a nagging suspicion that the attempted assassination in Butler, PA was staged.
I have no way to prove it, and maybe I’m wrong.
But it would have been extremely easy to scratch Trump’s ear while he was down.
And it’s not a huge stretch of the imagination for me to think it’s possible they chose to take out Comperatore to galvanize the MAGA crowd even more strongly behind Trump.
I could also be wrong, but I don’t think Trump is a naturally brave man. For him to rise up, pimp his fist three times while saying “Fight” each time? Where was this courage on Jan 6th, though the day was so totally messed up? Still, there was no real courage displayed by him that day.
Did a five-time draft dodger suddenly become a living, patriotic martyr that day? I think not.
So, I think it’s very possible that was staged.
Or, when he put his hand to his ear.
Also, when I was growing up, I and many boys shot rifles all the time. Many were extremely good shots even in our midteens.
In my early twenties, I used to religiously shoot a brick (550) of .22 bullets every Saturday to maintain and improve my shooting accuracy. Of course, I shot bigger rifles (and other types of guns), but .22 bullets were cheap and good for keeping in practice. If I told of shots I and other guys made, it would probably sound exaggerated, so I won’t.
Also, I used to do a lot of paintballing in the woods all around here. I once got grazed on the earlobe by a paintball going between 250 and 30p fps. It scratched my earlobe pretty much exactly as Trump’s appeared to be. I think a .233 graze would do much worse damage.
It’s also possible Trump was unaware the “attempt” was going to be made, and the shooter was instructed to try and graze him, and also do some collateral damage in the crowd, but that if he killed Trump, then so be it.
The distance was not great for a good shooter to have a good chance of just shooting an ear.
But, in that case, it would mean Trump does have some natural courage.
But either way, it is very possible it was staged, with or without Trump’s knowledge.
I thought I typed .223. Did not mean to type “.233:
The video said that the woman from the Secret Service there was a KGB RUssian born asset, and frankly she looked like a Slavic, Russian face, but this is all somewhat clouded speculation.
But the question is whether these specialists were able to manage to stage the whole thing and it seems that it is an easy answer to it in the affirmative….
Moreover, they have much better and advanced sniper rifles and laser guidance and such like equipment, and it may have been electronic guidiing locking system so there would be nearly zero chance to miss.
But the main thing was how quickly they cleaned up the whole area and moved the body of that man who supposedly fired the shots.
The opinion that Trump could just scratch his ear is little bit risky to manage because they would have to have a doctor who would lie that it was from the bullit, and that would be creating unnecessary risk for the operation, which they wanted to accomplish without any risks and problems.
But the main point is the “all of a sudden” lack of proper security measures and lax approach to security – leaving a roof of a building not covered by a police or secret service so that the man could climb up and set up a rifle and in fact fire shots at a president – that seems very suspicious and absolutely against their own very strict protocol how to handle such situations….and so this angle truly gives it up that it may have been staged to get Trump into the WH for sure.
If this is true (and it is VERY probable), then these are truly very evil people and of course the Russian Bolsheviks are involved, no doubt.
I hope to be able to watch the video sometime this week or weekend. Thank you for sharing it.
Came by it by pure accident, somebody put it in the comment section of one of Mr. Nyquist and the French gentleman videos, #11 conference it perhaps was, so looked for it on YT and found it and watched it. It has lot of good points and it truly looks like the person knows exactly what’s going on, but precisely there are also very important things omitted in it – as for exaple that there was never any true collapse of commuism and that the whole Kremlin is one communist after another, KGB and GRU criminals, and even though it mentions Putin in detail, still the opinion is that it is a KGB provocation to create uncertainty or at least to make sure that the release of this data about Trump is incomplete and to leave out the true and most important reasons why he was recruited – to help the Kremlin communists to instal communism worldwide, which the video doesn’t mention at all – and coincidently the Golitsyn opinion of Penkovskiy as a KGB plant – the principle that he ommitted many things that a genuine defector would not have, applies here to this video – and the reverse psychology effect also.
But then the narcotics money laundering angle and how they plotted to use Trump for that, that of itself is a major bomb, and the video says so without any restraint. There is no way to confirm it but it all fits the whole analysis – and if this is true about Trump, which would be a major explosive of its own, then he has to be an ideological communist fully committed to the cause, otherwise they wouldn;t involve him in such an operation at all…SO if this is the truth in that video then it has just become even more serious than ever before.
GreyKnight, those are some interesting ideas on how the assassination attempt on Trump could have been staged. If true, it’s theater and misdirection straight out of a Agatha Christie mystery. Certainly Trump was uncharacteristically cavalier with the fist-pump for a guy being shot at.
The only counter argument is that Crooks was too crazy and immature to have been in on the deception, and in that case how could the planners be sure that he wouldn’t end up really shooting Trump? Unless he was only firing blanks and someone else shot into the crowd behind Trump. But then the whole thing becomes more complicated, and there would be more chances of slip-ups and the conspiracy being discovered.
Unfortunately, Crooks was not firing blanks. A man died and others were seriously wounded. Those bullets passed near the president’s head.
I was just thinking, maybe it’s possible he was instructed to try and graze Trump, while taking out one or two in attendance, but that if his shot was off and he killed Trump, then that would have been okay too.
I know it’s irrelevant at this point, and mete speculation, but there are some huge question marks about the whole thing.
Either way though, Trump used it to full advantage.
It cemented so many people to him. People were ready to fight.
Looks like the kid would have been “disposed of” the same, either way, and advantage could have been taken of any outcome.
Oops, I blew his head off trying to graze him! And oops, I got killed doing this stunt. And oops, I killed some bystanders. Too many oops for the op.
Too many safety failures for this situation to be taken too lightly – and there were people who saw this Crooks on the roof and informed the police and nothing was done about it until the shots were fired – that is after substantial time period elapsed.
Nobody says that he didn’t fire shots, that has not been excluded, but that there may have been other involvement, which some people heard different sounding shots fired and it was reported so, so the speculation was and still is that there was another shooter. Why then would that be ?
And if Trump was sure that what has happened to him, him to be assassinated, Biden was behind it, which means that Harris and Biden would have been the beneficiaries, why is he so nice and firendly to this KGB long-term asset Biden who in fact rob him of the presidency in 2020 ?
And that the FBI had cleaned up the place so fast that there was nothing possible to investigate afterwards either.
So these questions should be asked because they may bring some kind of conclusion – and that the result was that Trump got into the WH is the primary reason why these questions are asked now. The rest was already mentioned.
I find this kind of conspiracy theory impossible to believe in. I am sorry. It really is too incredible. So many people conspiring, and nobody coming forward. Nobody blowing the whistle on the evil Trump man. It loses me.
We all have free will and the means of our immortal God given soul to discern between the good and evil, but then one has to be careful not to call the good evil and evil good, as God Himself, through the mouth of Prophet Isaias says VOE to them….
But to speculate in order to come to the conclusion of the truth, and in order to investigate it with opinions, is not doing evil, but helping the truth to be recognized, so then it is not helpful for that task to be called conspiracy theory and to ridicule it in some way, when the intent is to find out what truly happen, for the justice sake.
It may be that the BUttlet, PA attempt was just that, but there are several aspects of it that support the opinion that the commies staged it so to get one of their assets inside the WH to be able to control the nuclear button when the Russian (and the CCP etc.) Bolshevik war-machine begins to send the ICBMs and so on….that is what needs to be mentioned, for the sake of being prepared to face it, if nothing else.
And when you have a person as Trump sitting in the WH and doing all such things as were already mentioned, which are helpful to the Russian communist cause, that opinion and analysis about him becomes extremely important and truly a serious point, not some conspiracy theory. And BTW there are no real whistleblowers among the communists, they call them traitors and kill every one of them the moment they get the chance, without any mercy, as history of communism proves.
You want to be careful about it, that’s understandable, but one has to at least mention these things Trump has done for the sake of the truth because they are facts, not just a conspiracy theory, and then offer the opinion about it and consider it, why it is possible or not, BUT what is not helpful is to discard it from the beginning based only on the disagrement and not on the sincere analysis of the whole situation as such.
AND if Trump was not involved with the KGB, they wouldn’t let him live, and then his 2nd visit to the Kremlin in 1996 becomes more important also, because if he was not interested to work with them in 1987, why did he go there again in 1996 ?
And his contacts to KGB assets, as that NYC billionaire cab driver with the Moscow KGB school diploma and or Soros loan and such like connections Trump had (has).
I was trained in STEM, trained to analyze experiments. What I have found is that several experiments don’t automatically give the interpretations attributed to them, rather that the experimenters applied their biases to come to their interpretations.
Now I look at the Kennedy assassination–I look first to the physical evidence. The doctors at the hospital in Dallas identified two entrance wounds to the front of the body, one in the back. Therefore there were at least two shooters. Oswald failed a paraffin test that day indicating that he had not fired a weapon that day. The physical evidence stops there. It doesn’t tell the identities of the shooters, their motives, who hired them if hired, nothing. All it shows is that the Warren Report is not worth the paper it’s printed on. All those who base their stories on the Warren Report are misled. Here’s where I part ways with the conspiracy theorists–they try to answer questions through speculation for which the physical evidence gives no clue.
I give Pacepa the benefit of the doubt–unless he was physically present at Oswald’s supposed preparation, he was lied to by his KGB bosses.
I run into the same quandary with 9/11–the physical evidence tells one story, the official explanation another. Just as in the Kennedy assassination, the physical evidence tells very little, the conspiracy theorists muddy the water with their speculations.
Those are not the only examples.
In situations like these, a person loses credibility when he supports either the official accounts, or equally if he gives credence to the conspiracy theories.
You have to look deeper at the physical evidence related to the assassination, as a whole. No serious investigator takes the first impression of an ER doctor, in the confusion of the moment, that there were entry wounds from the front. Two investigative bodies determined otherwise for very good reason. The doctors in the ER were not experts in ballistics and did not understand fully what had happened to Kennedy. One can assemble odd statements by odd people in moments of confusion to come up with erroneous theories. This only adds to the confusion.
Jeff, is that all you have? Questioning the experience of 20+ ER doctors who had first hand experience dealing with gunshot wounds, who then took that experience in their on site evaluation of Kennedy’s body? What sort of “investigative bodies” were those that contradicted the on site ER doctors? Even hunters can usually recognize the differences between entrance and exit wounds.
But that’s not the only piece of physical evidence. I have looked up every piece of physical evidence that I could find, including that to which you have linked, and have found no, none, nada, zilch evidence that backs up the complete picture to which we have been exposed. I include experiments that try to recreate what the Warren Report theorizes.
As I wrote above, the physical evidence tells us very little. Conspiracy theorists want to know who and why, answers that the physical evidence cannot provide. Avoid those baseless speculations like the plague.
In closing, the Warren Report is worse than useless. It is so transparently false that is serves as a catalyst for conspiracy theories. It erodes trust in our government. It would have been better to say “We don’t know.” than to offer up an unbelievable theory.
JFK was killed by the communist KGB asset, there is no mistake in it and no other motive but the one widely known – and JFK was not a very good president and morally corrupt person, suspect of adultery and such like sinful conduct, perhaps the actress Monroe was eliminated by the KGB because they were afraid she knew something that JFK told her which she should not have known….and here, you can see, this is a plain and conspiratorial speculation which is not supported by substantially concrete facts – but what is more important is that what does it matter today if these conspiracies flow around when the present time danger of communism worldwide is much more important to address and to deal with ?
It’s like disputing about something that has no meaning for the present times, as it cannot alter the reality of what is going on today, with the exception that it should finally compel those who are on the Russian side to realize that a US president was murdered by a communist fully trained by Moscow and who did it with the fulness of knowledge and idelogical consent.
JFK was not a good president because he backed off from the Cuban missile crisis and because he was a bad Catholic also, God permitted this evil to befall him and didn’t protect him from being murdered like that. BUT why would you be (again and over and over) opening this subject when it has no other relations to the present time ? It just leads away from much more important things that are happening now, like the US troops removal from Europe, under Trump’s orders…etc.
There is a great deal of evidence in the JFK case, and misrepresenting it (as with these ER allegations) is very typical.
I have been careful not to claim anything that I could not back up through evidence, some of it in videos, such as the Zapruder film. Those are physical evidence. That’s also why I am so negative towards conspiracy theories that have no basis other than speculation.
As for the “ER allegations”, even 50 years later the surviving ER doctors still made them. These were trained eyewitnesses. I trust them more than any post-hoc review that did not deal with the physical evidence.
The first reason that assassination is still relevant is because people are defending the indefensible–both the Warren Report and the conspiracy theories. Secondly, it is an example of a pattern of government lying to the American public concerning several high profile events. Not every government official is dishonest, not by a long shot, but people such as the Clintons and their entourage are dishonest, the Obamas, Bidens and those around them, and that is a poison to our country. In this blog there are questions about Trump. We need honesty, accountability and justice for this country to survive.
The thing about these conspiracy theories and false claims that constantly pop up regarding the Kennedy assassination and other key events, is that so much valuable time is wasted doing other people’s homework for them. They watch some conspiracy-oriented documentary, or read a badly researched book, and do not cross-check these claims.
Mistakes are made by doctrors in the moment, and this has caused confusion regarding Kennedy. Autopsy doctors were initially unable to figure out the path for the bullet that entered the rear base of the president’s neck. Why? They did not realize there was an exit wound in the front of his neck. The tracheotomy done by Dr. Perry at Parkland Hospital had obliterated the neck wound and it was not until Dr. Humes spoke with Perry over the phone the following day that things started to clarify.
Early references by Parkland physicians to an entry wound in the front of the neck are part of this general confusion. Investigators did clear things up. Five doctors at Parkland bore witness to the fact that there was a front neck wound. Some initially mistook this for an entrance wound. Easy mistake. Dr. Perry, who gave the press conference, later said, “they took my statement at the press conference out of context. I did say it looked like an entrance wound since it was small, but I qualified it by saying that I did not know where the bullets came from. I wish now that I had not speculated. Everyone ignored my qualification. It was a small wound, slightly ragged at the edges, and could have been exit or entrance. By Sunday, after working on Oswald, I had learned my lesson, and I handed out a written statement to the press and took no questions. I had got a lot smarter in two days.”
We should be even smarter after sixty plus years.
This is hopefully the last I’ll say on this subject.
Jeff, how much research have YOU done? I mean firing rifle bullets at ballistic gel, or at meat and bones? Have you analyzed the pattern of holes made where the bullets entered the targets, compared to the holes they make as they exit? Have you seen how bullets are deformed even in substances as soft as ballistic gel? Have you seen the patterns of how bullets move when fired into different substances?
I have done some of that, and supplemented with analyzing videos made by others who did actual experiments. I did those studies for reasons completely divorced from the Kennedy assassination, though now I apply them to the discussion here. There’s no way that all the doctors in the operating room mistook an entrance wound for an exit wound. But on the 50th anniversary of the assassination, in an interview with surviving doctors from that team, they mentioned that they had received threats, to their careers, even to their lives, if they ever mentioned again that that wound was an entrance wound. As a result, they remained silent for half a century.
In one interview, one doctor mentioned that the autopsy drawings didn’t look anything like what he had observed in the operating room. He ended the comment with “…and I put the body in the coffin.”
Looking at the physical evidence–first the Zapruder film: immediately after the frame showing the bullet hit to Kennedy’s head, the head snapped back. Physics 101. Bits of brain and bone spread out in a cone shaped pattern behind the head. Classic exit wound. There has been zero experimental data that explains how that could have happened from a bullet hit from behind.
Shift the focus to Parkland Hospital, the doctors found a tiny hole at the base of the neck, and another at the hairline of the upper right forehead, classic entrance wounds. They found a massive blowout exit wound on the back of the scull, so big that brain material fell out onto the operating table. Classic exit wound. These were people who handled and examined the body, people experienced in dealing with gunshot wounds.
These were people who were also threatened that if they claimed the truth about the entrance wounds…
The physical evidence doesn’t tell who pulled the triggers, or anything else about the assassins.
Would it not be better merely to decline to debate the assassination, than to lose credibility by championing either the unbelievable Warren Report, or the equally unbelievable conspiracy theories? You won’t convince the conspiracy theorists who see the flaws in the Warren Report, and the conspiracy theories can’t be believed.
As for me, I don’t want to discuss it any further.
I am not a JFK assassination researcher and you are not either, but I do know the sources that I trust, that have done the best job with the material in my opinion. If you think there was a conspiracy, I am not going out of my way any further to convince you.
OK, Jeff. Your background leads you to trust the “experts”. My background is STEM which is based on “question the experts”. Or to paraphrase Groucho Marx, do I trust the “experts” or my own two lying eyes?
It is the physical evidence, backed up by the Parkland Hospital doctors’ eyewitness reports that back up the physical evidence, that lead me to my conclusion. The “experts” propose what is physically impossible. They correctly assume that most people are too ignorant of STEM to recognize the physical impossibilities. And that includes you.
I have gone to both sides and asked “Where is your physical evidence?” From the Warren Report side, the physical evidence is totally lacking. From the conspiracy theorist side, it doesn’t support their wild flights of fantasy.
The only reason I bring it up now is that I don’t like seeing someone who I admire, waste so much time and credibility capital to defend the impossible and thereby indefensible. Wouldn’t it be better merely to decline to debate the issue?
We will have to agree to disagree.
I forgot to mention, don’t debate conspiracy theorists. They are so wacky that they’ll drive anyone crazy. That fits in with your essay that we need to act based on reality.
It’s important to debate crazy people when you can win some good will.
Neueste deutsche Nyquist-Übersetzungen des Kontemplativen Beobachters:
https://jrnyquistdeutsch.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/nationalbolschewismus-neo-reaktion-und-nuklearer-krieg/
https://jrnyquistdeutsch.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/eine-ernsthafte-und-nachdenkliche-nation/
https://jrnyquistdeutsch.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/paranoide-vorstellungen-im-politischen-diskurs/
Great writing Jeff, Thank you again. May I suggest what I was recently reminded by a top analyst who is looking at the soviet issue for 60 years, including over 10 from camp number 35, Perm, 1980s.
The 1991 coup was KGB ops , not central committee, not party. It is important to understand the difference in the enemy “combat order”. Cause they all play different and to counteract we need different approaches. The current russian post-leninist regime has specifics never fitting in comm party model. Technically kgb regime is not equal to communist party regime, just look- formally its multi party, but all that is a fake. IMPORTANT conclusion. KGB regime needs 2 additional support columns. 1. intensive information front(remember when COVID, everybody forgot about moscow and INFORM leverage stopped working for them. They were desperate)). Also KGB regime needs constant relegitimization through conducting wars, mostly on perimeter.
The proper understanding of them differences will define our future success or failure. Without this differentiation base approach we are burred as we speak
By the way, for those who haven’t watched this year’s May 9th Victory Day Parade in Moscow’s Red Square, it was a much more complete gathering of representatives from the entire world communist bloc: The heads of the 5 Central-Asian “post-Soviet” republics, also Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as Belarus were there. Then: Mongolia, the PRC of course, there must have been a representative from North Korea, Vietnam, definitely Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil and a few more. What was particularly significant was the attendance of representatives from Myanmar (formerly, Burma), Indonesia and Egypt! This is alarming. The communists are now rapidly snatching away more and more countries, left and right, that have previously been aligned with the West.
never before the “parade” was a “victory” to this year)). Because they managed to conduct the show under the threats from UA of range drones. All the guests know exactly who ALLOWED the Parade- President Zelensky did. He is Kind and Humane . This is what GUESTS tell behind the curtain
What is also interesting is that their cardboard coverings built around the Lenin Mausoleum and vis-à-vis on the facade of the Gum shopping mall have been turning over the years ever more towards plain-red. Hardly any blue left, and hardly any orange. Subtle things, but then not so subtle really …
recently talked to some one who travels occasionally to moscow. The mausoleum subject : they say it was boarded as if hidden, felt like tendency is to cover up, cause that ‘thing’ may be dangerous to the system. People start to NOT get IT. I will revisit the issue and report here
I realised that too. In earlier years the camera angles from along the Kremlin walls always showed quite a bit of the Mausoleum. Not this time.
President Kennedy assassination. In USSR we never were told that oswald was a traitor defector and went through the intensive indoctrination, courses and high level spetsnaz training. He was a psychopath indeed, on top of it.
In USA about 35 years back by chance I found a book about oswald and that murder In Russian, may be translation, but i was completely overwhelmed with …simple truth.
It was no doubt soviet operation. There is no way it could be anything else. Of course soviets infiltrated US and there could easily be some inside help, but that is of no importance to the HUGE REALIZATION .
The way they prepare assassins does NOT allow them operators to NOT do the what they were designated to perform.
If they delivered oswald here- he 100% had to take a shot. He could have miss or not being able to do it because of some thing, but he would make his best
In the previous posting of Mr. Nyquist he asked about the KGB burning Oleg Penkovkiy alive and so this person mentioned that Golitsyn himself wrote about – so here it is just to confirm that it was most likely in the New Lies for Old, somewhere in the beginning, when Golitsyn speaks about the new methodology and CIA spies that were recruited, but due to time constraint and too much work on other projects, there was no time to look it up yet – but that Golitsyn wrote about this is certain. It may have been also in the notes of the Perestroika Deception but this is uncertain.
If anyone has time to look it up, that would be a great help – just for the truth’s sake.
It is famously in one of Suvorov’s books.
https://archive.org/details/AnatoliyGolitsyn/page/n177/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Popov
It is getting worse with the memory, and on top of the already inherent bad memory for names, thisis the result – yes, it was Popov, as it shows.
QUOTE: Page n227
Self-evidently, KGB penetration in the United States did not begin with the Walker ring. The Central Intelligence Agency was already penetrated in 1958 – by both the KGB and Chinese intelligence. In 1958, the Agency lost its most important source, Colonel Popov of Soviet Military Intelligence [GRU], who could have provided strategic information had he not been compromised by KGB penetration, arrested by the KGB, and burned alive in the GRU’s crematorium furnace. UNQUOTE
Golitsyn says that Penkovskiy was shot.
We do have to appologize for the bad memory, no intent to deceive or anything, just don’t remember the correct names, too many things to deal with, which is no excuse BTW.
Thank you for looking it up.
There are four references to the MSN in Perestroika Deception. They merely refer to the fact he was a KGB plant on British and American intelligence.
There is only one reference in New Lies for Old, and it is to suspicion that that was the case.
But I’ve read of that happening in one of Suvorov’s books, though I don’t remember the name of an agent being given. I also don’t remember which book. It was a book I read in college, which had happened to catch my eye while browsing the library shelves.
Thank you for looking it up. The initial thought was that Golitsyn mentioned the whole reason how the KGB is showing that cremation of Penkovskiy film to the new recruits to make sure that they know what will happen if they betray the communist cause, and also the opinion was that Golitsyn mentioned the whole thing in the notes, but memory doesn’t always serve as well as needed, too many things to deal with, thank you again for looking it up.
You’re welcome. If I remember correctly, in the Suvorov book, other agents had to watch the cremation, or film of it. I wish I could remember the title of the book.
Now that you mentioned it, the memory came back, it had to be Suvorov, and don’t laugh BUT this poor soul doesn’t remember the title either….it’s been a long time that the book was read, so it was Suvorov, that part came back.
The agents name was not given. Yes.
Dang the typos tonight. That should have been *man*, not “MSN”.
You said you were about to finish a new book on UFOs. What drew your attention to this subject?
Will you be writing about the esoteric side of UFOs? The aliens = demons theory…
What about the conspiracies that have grown up around UFOs, are they driven by the communists or are they originally non-communist western imagination? There’s a rabbit hole of topics like the Earth alliance, the One Law, Ashtar Sheran, Greys vs. Pleiadians, etc… all of them mixed up with alien communication and New Age stuff (Michael Salla, writer, and Haim Eshed, former head of space security, who supports the US government – alien alliance theory)
Although my guess is that these are just misinterpreted demonstrations of high military technology, there are people believing these theories.
It is hard to penetrate this subject, but I am taking a strict political analysis, viewing all hypotheses, starting with the Fermi paradox.
After the depressing war map updates with Lee and Johnny, here is a glimmer of good news. The staunchly pro-West candidate Nicusor Dan won a decisive victory in the Romanian presidential run-off. He got 56% of the vote against George Simion, leader of the “pro-sovereignty” but really pro-Russia party AUR.
AUR is a relatively new party founded in 2020, and generally portrays itself as populist, pro-faith and pro-family. From what I’ve read, Simion unconvincingly tried to portray himself as anti-communist and “neutral” on the question of NATO and the Ukraine war, but his support of Calin Georgescu and the brazen Russian propaganda espoused by fellow AUR deputies give the game away. He sometimes criticized Russia and in the past even called attention to undue Russian influence in Romania. But then he turns around and opposes further aid to Ukraine (including transit of aid through Romania), calling for a negotiated settlement instead, and denies that Russia is a threat to NATO. He supports Trump’s position (or lack thereof) on Ukraine and was present at Trump’s second inauguration, if that tells you anything. Simion and his people continually push pro-Ceausescu (ie. communist) nostalgia and hint that massive nationalization might be necessary after economically decoupling from the corrupt globalist EU. He accuses the EU and current Romanian government of being anti-democratic, but then threatens critics and journalists that he will personally deal with them once he wins the election. He presents a very MAGA-ish pro-Israel picture, yet in a curious TV appearance he nodded approvingly when Georgescu quoted Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the founder of the violently antisemitic organization Iron Guard in the 1930’s. In a clowning appearance that highlighted his unsuitability as president, Simion was accused of being a Putinist shill on a French news show sympathetic to Le Pen!
https://x.com/CostinAndriess/status/1923861280248692923
Here is a good summary of how Simion totally misrepresented himself as a moderate on his recent appearance on the Ben Shapiro show. Ben showed his ignorance by not pressing Simion on anything, and wishing him success in the election.
https://x.com/CostinAndriess/status/1923708855025877109 May 16/25
It should be noted that AUR’s chief long-term goal is the peaceful reunification of Romania and Moldova, which one would think would put the party in direct opposition to Moscow. But that’s not the case. Going by my own personal experience, people who support AUR and the idea of reunification also stridently support Russia as a force for good against the corrupt, warmongering EU and NATO. It’s total cognitive dissonance. That the historical record shows Russian expansion is counter to “Greater Romania” never occurs to these so-called nationalists. I’m mentioning Moldova because, after long expressing support for the Romanian diaspora and for the pro-freedom aspirations of Moldovans in particular, the AUR party line turned violently against their “brothers” when election results revealed that many Moldovans with Romanian citizenship “incorrectly” voted against Simion. It seems Moldovans recognize Russian influence when they see it, and they don’t like it. Now the AUR influencers advocate for the cutting off of all assistance to Moldova, and refer to people who speak the same mother tongue, and who were freely granted citizenship, as the equivalent of illegal Mexican migrants who need to be kept out by building a wall. Wow! If this doesn’t make clear the false Orbanist nationalism of AUR, which is just a cover for abject subservience to Russia, nothing will. The explanation I hear now from AUR supporters is that Soros fraudulently manipulated the diaspora vote with the help of pro-EU Moldovan president Maia Sandu. Of course. Soros, the perennial globalist boogeyman, is always to blame if Russia’s schemes don’t succeed. Sadly these people are willingly esconsced in a fantasy world, in which every proof of Russian malfeasance becomes proof of a vast anti-Russian conspiracy.
https://x.com/CostinAndriess/status/1923780305791627522
Laura: Very good report. This illustrates how deceptive these people can be. One immediately sees inconsistencies in their positions. There is something underhanded going on. So glad the people of Romania realized the problem with Simion. I had heard that he made a bad impression during a TV appearance. Was it the debate? I did not follow events there close enough.
No it wasn’t the debate, it was on French TV. Simion was scheduled to hold a final debate with Dan a few days before the election, but he cancelled it to go traipsing around Europe to meet with other right-wing populist politicians and make TV appearances. He was so sure of victory he totally slacked off campaigning. That’s when he went on French TV and made a fool of himself by, among other things, calling Macron a dictator and comparing France to Iran. Yes, France has a Muslim immigration problem, but the tone-deaf lecturing didn’t sit well coming from the candidate of a country with such a large diaspora in France. The host noted that this kind of talk could be disastrous for Romania-France relations (with the implication that French NATO troops could be pulled out of Romania), before dismissively telling Simion “good night” in Romanian. The clip became a source of instant mockery in the Romanian media.
https://x.com/CostinAndriess/status/1923341298506862779
short clip of French TV appearance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzbNa2Kg-t8 full French TV interview, sadly no English translation. Maybe Jean Robin can give us a more detailed rundown.
Here is Simion with Filip Dewinter, the rusophile leader of Belgium’s Vlaams Belang party, 3 days before the election.
https://x.com/CostinAndriess/status/1923159767637426355
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Electoral map of the 2025 presidential election vs. the 2014 election. The poster is saying that AUR is nothing more than the old Social Democratic Party rebranded as right-wing populist. It reminds me of the German election map that showed AfD only winning in the old East Germany.
PNL = National Liberal Party (centre-right), PSD = Social Democratic party (centre-left, continuation of the old Communist Party after the 1989 Revolution)
https://x.com/CostinAndriess/status/1924551969353437625
Fascinating details on the Romanian situation. Thank you, Laura. Good to see that stooges will be stooge-like.
In one of the military buildup videos, there was mention of regular flights to Wuhan. Professor Solovey has confirmed that the enemy is indeed planning an attack with a more deadly virus. But he hopes that making these plans public ahead of time will prevent it from happening.
Is anything said about the type of virus?
Solovey did not mention. He was quoting someone else. I will have to subscribe to that other guy to learn more.
Such interesting rumors you hear in Russia. Sometimes they are nothing, but sometimes there is something larger behind them.
I totally agree—some rumors are complete nonsense, but others are spot on. I subscribed to that other source, the one Solovey considers very reliable, and listened to three hours of his videos, but I still couldn’t find any mention of a virus. I’ll have to keep digging.
The linked Pacepa article about Liberation Theology and Kirill was excellent.
Thanks. Pacepa’s book “Programmed to Kill” connected a lot of dots with Oswald’s history and motivations.
The KGB/Trump video mentioned was interesting too.
Did anyone do a deep dive investigating the Trump (Butler, Pa.) event?
Physical evidence and Forensics etc. The Security Team protecting him that day were rookies or worse. Turn off the sound of the event and what do you see? A staged event.
If they can purposely expload a nuclear power plant and cause panic and long-term scare and a serious nuclear contamination etc., then they can stage an assassination attempt also.
In Chernobyl they purposely turned off properly working reactor security and let it overheat, so much was reported (long time ago) and so otherwise that power plant would not have exploded.
This is how evil they are, and it has not changed a bit. No conscience, no remorse, only evil, the devil is their master, the Kremlin is his home.
I was unaware that there was proof of a staged even at Chernobyl. Furthermore, given our ability to trace the bullet trajectories, it is inconcievable that Trump’s life was not at serious risk with bullets flying so close to his head.
Chernobyl – there was a report long time ago that they truly turned off the security system and allowed the reactor to overheat and so it exploded – so it was evidently done on purpose, Russians are not such idiots who would be so stupid to cause this extreme dissaster and be clueless about it, so there was a reason and a truly evil intent to cause it.
In regards to Trump, yes, they were taking a serious risk, provided some special means were not used to minimize that risk, and that would be a matter of debate what such means could be, as laser guiding system and so on.
The point is – they went ahead with it and did succeed and the result is Trump sits in the WH and is doing what the Soviet long-term plan and strategy call for…and as Gen. Sejna wrote about it in his book, it all fits the long-term Soviet plan to the letter – and that’s why it is important to look at it and observe who Trump is in truth and why it is so, and so it cannot be a coincidence at this point, only truly evil intent to help the communist cause till the very end.
A report? Has anything serious been published by investigators suggesting it was on purpose?
Has been a long time ago and it is very hard to find, and so (if the memory serves correct) there was some kind of report published by the National Geographic Explorer about it, how they have done the exact opposite in terms of security procedure, so all that could be found now (quick search) is here:
https://www.britannica.com/event/Chernobyl-disaster
QUOTE:
The disaster occurred on April 25–26, 1986, when technicians at reactor Unit 4 attempted a poorly designed experiment. Workers shut down the reactor’s power-regulating system and its emergency safety systems, and they withdrew most of the control rods from its core while allowing the reactor to continue running at 7 percent power. These mistakes were compounded by others, and at 1:23 am on April 26 the chain reaction in the core went out of control. Several explosions triggered a large fireball and blew off the heavy steel and concrete lid of the reactor. This and the ensuing fire in the graphite reactor core released large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere, where it was carried great distances by air currents. A partial meltdown of the core also occurred. UNQUOTE
There was something else reported about the supervisor leaving the place while they were doing this idiotic move, but it has been so long ago that these facts are truly blurry at this pont – but what was clear is that the intent to cause this cannot be dismissed at all – as you can read from the findings about it above.
Wish there was more to say, but it’s been so long ago that this is so far what is available – so an objective conspiracy theory for now.
Where can I find this movie(documentary) putins little helper? Please share us a link! Thank you
To answer the question about Buttler – no, nobody really did any substantial analysis, and the probable reason is that the official understanding of it was satisfactory to the MAGA people and so as long as their favorite man was not harmed, they don’t think it is important to look into it more than what was already reported.
Majority of them are honest people and they want the truth, but this has something to do with the perverted way of thinking, so prevelant today, when they see good things done by Trump they don’t question those things that normally would be questioned otherwise.
Moreover the KGB and the CPUSA muddied the waters so badly by painting people as “conspiracy theorists” over the years that not everyone is willing to look into these now not so small discrepancies for the fear they might be branded as crazy conspiratorial visionaries or perhaps they might be attacked as the leftists and enemies of Trump and so on.
As far as the forensics and physica evidence, the report said that the FBI (and you know who they are now and for several years now), had taken over the investigation, and so that should be self-explanatory where that would lead….
The KGB Trump video is a masterpiece and very carefully crafted, and many things purposely ommited so that the overall picture remains unclear and confusing, which is the objective of these KGB professionals – and of course the objective is to demoralize the enemy population before the war begins.
But they don’t understand one thing and that is that they will never be able to change people who stand for and love the truth and justice, and most importantly, the people who love God above all….
A staged event? What?
BUTLER AND EPSTEIN info – from the Gateway Pundit – https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/fbi-director-kash-patel-deputy-dan-bongino-face/
Some more summary of what happened in Butler, PA – and with the open mind why it was staged:
(From the linked article from GP):
QUOTE: Thomas Crooks was able to do the following on July 13:
Flew a drone over the Pennsylvania fairgrounds and got aerial footage of the rally layout on the day of the event – including 2 hours before Trump took the stage.
Got a range finder through security.
Evaded law enforcement officers from several different state, local and federal agencies.
Somehow ‘climbed’ up on a roof with his rifle 450 feet away from Trump, bear crawled to the perfect vantage point as bystanders alerted police and was still able to take 8 shots at Trump.
Parked a vehicle full of explosives near the Trump rally
Crooks was able to walk around the premises after Snipers took a photo of him looking suspicious.
A sniper located in the second story window was only 40 feet away from Crooks and didn’t neutralize him.
Trump was still able to take the stage after Crooks was pegged as suspicious by Secret Service.
Meanwhile, new court documents were released that reveal would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh was in talks to purchase a Stinger Missile to take out Trump here in the US.
A Stinger missile reportedly costs from $119,000 to $120,000. A Stinger missile costs anywhere from $50,000 to $80,000 on the black market. UNQUOTE.
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Now Bongino and Patel are both saying that Epstein hanged himself, but this GP article points to the facts QUOTE:
Epstein was housed in the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), a facility known for its stringent security measures. Yet, on the night of his death, multiple protocols were inexplicably breached.
Guards assigned to Epstein’s unit reportedly fell asleep and failed to perform mandatory checks for approximately three hours. They later falsified records to cover up their negligence.
Two cameras positioned outside Epstein’s cell malfunctioned that night, and a third camera’s footage was deemed unusable.
Epstein’s cellmate was transferred the evening before his death, leaving him alone, contrary to standard procedures for inmates at risk.
The New York City medical examiner concluded that Epstein died by suicide via hanging. However, Dr. Michael Baden, a renowned forensic pathologist hired by Epstein’s family, observed the autopsy and noted injuries more consistent with homicidal strangulation, including fractures of the hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage. UNQUOTE
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If they would want to stage it in Butler, then they needed somebody to take the blame for it and be killed in the process, and now they are just saying the same thing over and over who this man Crooks was etc., but when you look at what he was actually able to accomplish there without the Secret Service nor the police doing anything about it (imagine, just like that), then it has absolutelly a different meaning all of a sudden – it truly looks like they wanted this to happen – and if they would want to murder Trump, then if that didn’t work they would have to face the criminal investigation and charges later on, which it don’t seem probable that they would go that far and brave the whole operation to the end – BUT when you consider that it was meant to be staged to get Trump into the WH (for Moscow’s strategy and worldwide communist takeover), the whole situation becomes much more clearer at that point.
In regards to what Patel and Bongino are saying both about Epstein, it is evident that, since he was connected to the KGB asset’s Robert Maxwell’s daughter and was in fact involved in such an high level operation as he was (the people there were all high ranking people), the evident purpose of that was to collect blackmail data, and the KGB connection cannot be therefore discarded, and since Patel and Bongino are now both saying that Epstein committed suicide, it is evident that Moscow holds this blackmail data and uses it, NO DOUBT.
So the Kremlin doesn’t want any investigation and that’s why the files are still being “evaluated” by the communist infested DOJ and FBI and so on, so that the delay is just that – they may eventually publish something, but the main data will most likely remain secret or destroyed, and so now they are trying to make sure that no investigation would be called for by just ssaying Epstein truly hanged himself – and so the Trump KGB connection, which now includes these 2 suspects also, has just taken another turn to the affirmative….
And so that’s why they don’t want this to go any further, Moscow wouldn’t like that at all and that would be a serious circumstantial confirmation of the Trump-KGB connection.
And that’s why the GP is publishing this now so that it remain obscured and people will never be able to figure out that the man they voted for in truth might be working for the communist enemy that is plotting for decades to enslave them all and to fob them of their freedoms etc.
Bongino is saying Epstein hanged himself? Really?
Gateway Pundit reported it, Bongino was with Patel on Maria Bartolomeo yesterday – it is a scandal above anything.
The link is there. If this doesn’t help to open some eyes then what else will ?
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Today the FIRST military power on Earth are Ukrainians. But second and 3rd are Russians and N Koreans, who all have direct battlefield experience as of NOW.
Treat this threat seriously. Nukes can be delivered via stealth drones . ALL changed. We already ENTERED a New World Order. With Kyiv at the Helm for the unlimited Future
on communist party USA. Since around 1975 they and moscow friends developed a new way- massively joining the democratic party. That’s all one needs to know about American leftism
Right now in the Canadian province of Alberta there is a sudden upsurge in separatist sentiment, and curiously the premier lowered the number of signatures required for a citizens petition from 600,000 to 200,000 to make it easier to hold a referendum. The soft on Russia, Orban-praising conservative outlet Rebel News is very supportive of the idea. If in a few months Canada breaks up with some provinces voting to join the US, while at the same time Europe falls to Russia, wouldn’t it a superb confirmation of the Dark Enlightenment ideas that have apparently taken hold of the American conservative movement? At the very least, it would be a timely confirmation of Trump’s strange foreign policy. What I described may not necessarily happen, but recent developments are suggestive and that a lot of things are in play.
More on the campaign for Alberta independence
We’re Done Getting Screwed! – Rebel News
https://www.rebelnews.com/done_getting_screwed?utm_campaign=sf_appquestion_051525&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel
“Russia wants to do largescale TRADE with the United States when this catastrophic ‘bloodbath’ is over, and I agree,” Trump said.
Still clueless.
Yes. Didn’t Trump just say a week or so ago that he was done trying to negotiate a peace deal with Russia? That lasted for all of five minutes. These zig zags are nothing more than a distraction meant to fool people who aren’t paying close attention to where this is all going.
I’m surprised that Trevor finally said it in the Dynamic Independence podcast. If Trump –with his decades long connections to Russia and bagfulls of Russian money—were a Democrat we would be calling him a Russian asset. I don’t think we would be according him the wide benefit of the doubt we’ve been giving him. We may never know the full story, but I think somewhere along the way Trump’s personal interests became inextricably intertwined with Russia’s interests. At some point he may have decided that the best way of realizing his ambitions of wealth and power would be to cooperate with Russia. It doesn’t mean that this collaboration is perfect and that the Russians are getting 100% of what they want, but at least the solid foundation is there. While Trump talks mostly about trade, there is a high chance for Russia to achieve its most desired goal of NATO disbandment. One wrinkle in the Russian asset theory is that for unknown reasons the Russians seem to be giving Trump wide leeway to go after China. But then again, if the ensuing “trade war” ends up spurring China to mobilize faster for all out war then it’s not entirely against Russian interests, although it could end up being a risky move. But the Russians are nothing if not risk-takers. At any rate, there’s too much suspicious stuff in Trump’s background (as laid in the video linked above by CONCERNED) to assume he’s just a clueless Mr. Magoo. I think he has *some* idea of what he’s doing and how badly things could end up, even if he’s fooling himself that he’s acting in his and America’s best interests.
Dear Ma’am,
very good.
In this field, as some wrongly imagine that the absolute proof must be furnished before they believe anything so “conspiratorial” as this assessment about Trump, the conclusive point is not what can be proven, but that he cannot be trusted because he does lot of things against the US nterest in regards to his connections and agreements with Russian and Chinese communist interests, and his recognition of these illegitimate governments and their positions as legitimate and equal to that of the United States.
Just the fact that he is dealing with these communist criminals as if they were equal to the God and freedom loving people, that of itself should exclude such a man from any political influence and office, but because the progress of these so perverted times is so far advanced, people don’t consider it important at all and are willing to compromise, especially when the other candidate, the Bolshevik woman, was far worse than Trump appears to be.
But to add to what you have written – the KGB Kremlin will not tollerate any kind of free hand and innovative approach, but the strict adherence to the strategic operational plans as the Kremlin sets them and not some person who is in their service for some time.
One more thing – nearly all of Trump’s picks for his administration, or rather to say, several of them, have been highly visible TV personalities and news analyst commentators, Gorka, Hegseth, Patel, Bongino, and so on, so that their results will not be questioned when they will be commanded to do something which normally would seem against the US interest, but in fact would be in accordance to the Kremlin’s plans as such, which all who are serving this KGB criminals Mafia must follow – and again, the decisions are not being made in the local level (in the US), but they all come from the Kremlin center, and that, if people finally realize this point of this communist strict discipline, they will know that when orders come, they are carried out or else the person is executed without any mercy whatsoever.
And since this point is very hard to understand for people who had never had any such experience and don’t know what the communists are capable of, the KGB criminals do count on this erroneous presumption of the freedom loving public that will accept the communists as the same kind of mentality as such people themselves have – and this is a grave error and must be avoided.
It is very hard to explain this, but hopefully it will help. Otherwise – glad to be of help and glad to see that people are not fooled by these communist criminals anymore.
From what people around Trump have said, the man’s knowledge of the world is very limited. Trump’s understanding of economics is insignificant. His understanding of military strategy is very limited. What he knows is that he has benefitted from his Russian friends in the past. Can he count on them in the future? Even he is not entirely sure. How this jumble of goo comes out through Trump’s brain is hard to say. Watching him, his actions appear to be borderline instinctual/random. That is why I liken him to Mr. Magoo. He has a very odd relationship with reality. It’s hard to say what guides him. A walking stick?
Maybe a glimmer of hope within our military leadership today after watching so many in the Trump administration who are pro Russia, pro Putin.
https://open.substack.com/pub/researchingukraine/p/us-generals-prove-trump-wrong-ukraine?r=2owyko&utm_medium=ios
Fascinating to see military professionals discuss all the innovative things the Ukrainians have done for their freedom. This shows the power of freedom in action.
Trump needs to listen to these people and not fire them.
The proposed Golden Dome missile defense system for the US could be good, but does it make up for the loss of the America’s strategic position if it abandons Europe to Russia? The GD seems to be the main plank of Trump’s defense platform (maybe that’s why he thinks the US needs less generals), but going by what Jeff has always said maybe the important thing is what’s not being discussed – the US commitment to defending its allies.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/specials/golden-dome/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&
Retired Gen. VanHerk
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/15/ex-norad-commander-underscores-challenges-facing-trumps-push-advanced/
I am always worried when the only solution for a strategic problem is a defensive wall of some kind. Such walls have famously failed throughout history, and a Goldon Dome is just another kind of wall.
Even if this was sufficient protection, they don’t have it ready yet, and it will take some years before they have it, so meantime the Russian Bolsheviks and the CCP criminals can plot the attack knowing full well that the US is left without any substantial deterrent and that the one person that would be using the nuclear button is most likely in their camp so the button will most likely not be pushed at all when the attack begins. This is what they have plotted to have over the years and it looks like they have it now – and Biden was there to delat the whole development for 4 years, which will prove crucial. And yes, no new ICBMs, nuclear warheads and so on, and so one has to consider that when Trump spoke about the “secret weapon” that such statements are to be taken (at the least) with a grain of salt whether that “secret weapon” will be something important and substantial – OR whether that “secret weapon” idea was not included in his monthly Kremlin orders as a deceptive active measures deliberate lie…
Because when one goes to visit the KGB criminals in the Kremlin in 1987 and then 1996, has at least one wife that is tied to their communist espionage system, and then wants to have good relationship with these communist atheistic criminals (KGB, CCP etc.), then why such a perverted person should be trusted to tell the truth – and it continues with more and more such like occurences which don’t need to be mentioned, as for example the Epstein files still not published and the Zelenskiy fiasco, and NATO situation, US troops removal from Europe and the “peace, peace, peace” with the Bolsheviks….which they will not honor BTW.
God had visited that non-Catholic sectarian and pro-communist nightmare Biden with cancer, as the punishment for Biden’s evils.
Yes, but Israel’s Iron Dome has been effective, correct?
NOT totally 100 %, and so some conventional ones made it through and exploded in Israel – so when you speak about nuclear ICBM protection, this kind of record has to be considered, and you need 100 % safety, because if so much as one nuclear warhead makes it through it could be absolutelly devastating to a vast territory.
It is also a matter of time lost mow, the US military does not have it yes, Russians and Chinese communists have enough nukes to level the country several times over and the whole world with it, and the amount of anthrax etc. bio/ chem weapons the Russians and Chinese have cannot be even estimated…and they will use it when needed to be used, because these are diabolically possessed evil atheistic monsters who don’t and have NEVER valued human life and who don’t fear God’s punishment at all….
These kind of defenses can be effective. Yes. But how long before an enemy finds a way to get around them? Iran is a fairly weak power, so far. Defenses are passive defense in the sense that you cannot bring down your enemy with these alone.
I don’t know, Trump’s choice of VP and other key administration figures is not so random. The pro-Russia view is loud and over-represented. If the only concepts Trump grasps are tariffs as a negotiating tactic and that Putin wants to be his friend, that’s bad for our side, but does almost explain Trump’s behaviour. If everything else is too complicated and confusing to hold his interest he will keep going back to what he understands, which is why he keeps trying to negotiate with Putin. Maybe he will eventually get it right and Putin will be his friend? But there’s one other thing that’s not so random and that Trump is apparently committed to. I’m referring to the defense budget cuts and the reorganization of the Pentagon that Gen. Hodges was so worried about. I haven’t seen any news indicating that he reversed his position, so defense and nuclear re-armament are two issues he’s not zig zagging on. Maybe because he’s not getting any pushback? Or because of another reason? Either way, more food for thought.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/6/hegseth-orders-sweeping-cuts-4-star-generals/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=threat_status&utm_term=threat_status&utm_content=threat_status&bt_ee=ABn7B%2FXsVZt3gyVnQW4byrCKuQh2RK3Ewg19pKzcqJNIHYmyAHXubUYycnpEI9O0&bt_ts=1746547287667
Yes. Trump is not acting to build up the military. The Army will be reduced in size. No nukes other than those useless gravity bombs.
If that was so simple, why then did he agree to visit the KGB run Kremlin in 1987 and then in 1996 again ? That required some kind of calculated guess at least, to assess whether that will be a good or bad idea – and he had to obtain a Soviet visa to get there, so that took some time to be done, and then Ivana’s role in it (1987) and so on.
Trump is in it and very very deep, otherwise he would see that Russia is the aggressor now against Ukraine and he would not have helped Russia against the Ukraine and so on, he would have been already educated by these experiences in Moscow why not to have anything to do with them – and he does the exact opposite, and on top of it, it is all aligned as if by conincidence (???) with the long-term Soviet plan as outlined by Gen. Sejna in his book….and the NATO situation, intent to remove US troops from Europe and so on.
When the KGB criminals are near anything, they are involved and they control those with whom they are involved, in secrecy, but firmly.
How easy is it for a KGB officer to control the people he recruits? Sometimes it is easy, but sometimes it is so difficult they will leave a recruited agent alone for awhile. There are stories like this from defectors. The people they recruit are often narcissists. Not always easy. Not simple. And, psychologically, pretty sick and chaotic in their behavior.
Party discipline goes beyond the grave, there is no arguing nor independent way of thinking permitted and any initiative must be approved by the Party or else the person who takes that initiative will find himself or herself executed.
BTW when you consider how many people were murdered on Putin’s watch, and in what horrible way, like that fellow Litvinenko and others, that of itself doesn’t suggest any relaxation in the KGB approach toward the political opponents, and towards the whistleblowers (if any exist)….the threat of the cremation alive is still there, they haven’t terminated that at all, and how many people had to go out of this world that way, that is not known and probably will not be known till the Last Judgment.
The one thing I can’t let go, is that Trump’s rhetoric and cozying up to Putin has cost innocent Ukrainian lives. And how many more lives in Europe, America, and the rest of the world will hid foolishness cost?
To me, personally, nothing else Trump can do can remove this stain.
He could discover a cure for cancer and I could never see him as anything but…I don’t even want to say.
Trump is a brutal person.
Yes, he can be, but he is not brutal like Putin.
Right. He is not brutal like Putin. It is an important distinction. Yes.
Hi GreyKnight, I hope that time improves your opinions of Trump. He is by no means perfect in my book, but far far better than the prior administration. The fact that he held a major press conference on the Golden Dome just one day after talking to Putin for two hours is telling. Here’s an analogy of how I see Trump and Putin.
When I was actively networking my business, I used to belong to several business groups. Over time, I learned whom I trusted, whom I disliked and so on. In every group, there was usually at least one person that I prayed that I would never have to do business with that guy, but I was polite and sociable at events even to that guy. My dad used to tell me “Never let the son of a bitch know that you think he’s a son of a bitch.”
If I am Trump, Putin is that guy that we never wanted to do business with. But now, Trump must deal with Putin. He has nukes; he’s aggressive, an evil liar, a closet communist, a Christian hypocrite, etc.
So, in the beginning, Trump publicly takes a polite and sociable stance towards Putin. He has to get Putin’s attention. How does he do it? He and Vance publicly humiliate Zelensky to show Putin they could be willing to talk and deal. I can even imagine that since Zelensky is a professional actor, he was in on it. I would love to ask that question of them. It all appeared staged as Jeff has said, but staged for what purpose? Could it be that Trump was trying to get Putin’s attention?
Moving on.
So, as weeks pass and the attacks on Ukraine increase, and Putin’s lies about an Easter ceasefire become obvious, Trump realizes that Putin has been leading him along and Putin is not taking Trump seriously. Trump does not like that. You see Trump’s public language of Putin become more scolding and critical. The most critical it has ever been from what I have been able to research.
Shortly after that, Trump and Zelensky announce their “Rare Earth Mineral Agreement” is signed and the rare earth includes Ukrainian land currently occupied by Russian troops. That’s Trump’s warning shot to Putin.
Then you see Trump go to Saudi Arabia to negotiate trillions of dollars of deals that ultimately will kill Russia’s oil business. That’s warning shot number 2.
The next day, Trump does this thing, “Well, I don’t think Putin would go to Turkey unless I went to Turkey” Why did Trump do that? Some said that it was a face saving measure for Putin. No. That’s not how I see it.
Trump is telling Putin, “I am setting the table. You need to deal with me, not just Zelensky.” Because if you recall, Putin initiated the meeting, saying he wanted to meet with Z. in Turkey. So, Trump politely butted in. This important fact was obfuscated in the media reporting.
Yesterday, Trump and Putin talk for over 2 hours. Just prior, Russia initiated a very big attack on Ukraine. Then Trump races to post on SM that cease fire talks between Putin and Zelensky are to begin immediately and the Vatican is willing to serve as the host.
To me, Trump is indicating that he is in charge, he is setting the table (the terms) and giving the bully an ultimatum
Then what happens next?
Putin steps up his attacks on Ukraine. Zelensky says they are not giving up any territory. Bad move on Putin’s part.
So, today, (5/20) Trump has a big press conference with Secretary of Defense Hegseth and General Goodline to announce the Golden Dome. They explicitly state it is to protect us from our enemies China and Russia. That’s warning shot number 3.
Then in the ensuing press conference, Trump is asked if he is worried about Russia’s buildup on the Norwegian and Finnish border. He says, “Not at all. They are strong countries.” I think he is implying that they are also NATO countries. Next Trump is asked, if he will place those harsher sanctions, the toughest sanctions ever considered for Russia, and Trump says that will depend on what Russia does. So, Trump is not ruling out sanctions.
So, Trump is no Communist. He wants to protect this country from evil men like Putin. Unfortunately, we have all had to deal with people we dislike and don’t trust. Trump has to deal with a mass murderer, a liar who has vast ambition. The only thing these two men share is they both want to go down in history. Trump wants to save this country and Putin wants to destroy it. Where am I wrong in my understanding?
In regards to what has been said about the staged Buttler, PA situation – one has to only look at the history of KGB active measures and see what kind of operations these communist criminals were able to pull off, and people will realize that it is NOT far fetched and that these are trulu fanatical monsters that will stop at nothing.
The opinion about this particular situation is that the people involved were all committed communists or rather communist assets – agents (specially picked and fully under the KGB orders) and that they all were briefed on the operation what was the desired result, that most likely this was one of their best performance and that the Russian communists are so death-certain that even if anybody will figure it out that it is so far extraordinary (and truly sounds like some kind of exaggerated nonsense) that people will not believe it possible and will discard it – which is what the KGB criminals always want, and that the operation will not be traced back to them.
And when you have the FBI director and his deputy, both claiming the highly questionable official report about the Epstein death that he committed suicide, which report most of the intelectually honest people think it a pure idiotic nonsense, based on the facts, then the whole idea about Trump and the whole administration becomes much more clearer…and yet, people are not willing to accept the painful conclusion that Trump is not an honest person and perhaps, as it looks now more and more so, the worst kind of treasonous enemy there is.
The KGB Kremlin knows that the Americans will not suspect anything, and if there were any suspicions about Trump, he and his administration will ignore them and continue the ordered tasks, for the triumph of this horrible atheistic communist cause…and at the end they all will be very sorry that they have subscribed to it when God Himself will require repayment of their evils in Hell.
Jeff,
I enjoyed the blog as always. I thought the quote from the Soviet textbook very interesting. I was amazed that Lenin’s body has to be overhauled every 90 days. That shows amazing commitment! I listened to the panel discussion with Jimmy and Trevor. I always enjoy hearing Jimmy’s analogies. Jimmy made a very valid point about Trump. He (Trump) hated how Biden weakened our country and is working very hard to reverse it.
I also listened to the first discussion with Wheelbarger and have a question for you.
How did you meet Lee Wheelbarger?
I perceived from the conversation that the two of you have different perspectives on the military build-up in Hungary and the Latvia border. If i understand your point, your concern is Russia may be planning to encircle Kiev by using troops from Hungary and even going through Poland. But you have much more confidence in the Ukrainians’ abilities than Lee. Is that because Lee is looking at numbers and you are looking at the Ukrainians strategic creativity?
I hope that Ukraine, our military and Trump knows about all these things that you, Johnny and Lee are highlighting.
Those are some good questions. If mainstream news is talking about the military build-up in Belarus and along the Finnish border, Trump must be getting briefings. And yet there’s no hint of reaction from Trump, it’s the same old flip flopping on Ukraine and slavish solicitation of Russia. The longer he does this the more it’s starting to feel like a game, with less and less chance that Trump will oppose Russia in any serious capacity.
Lee’s analysis paints a bleak and hopeless outcome for Europe. If in 4 months Russia launches a two or three-front attack (Finland, Suwalki Gap and southern Poland/western Ukraine), is there anything that NATO and Ukraine can do to stave off disaster, or should Poland, Finland etc. start waving the white flag now? Does an effective response depend on the US getting involved, or does Europe stand a chance on its own? Is the only hope to cross our fingers and hope Russia’s 1st tier (international) army is as incompetent and ill-equipped as the 2nd and 3rd tier armies?
Jeff, you have argued that Ukraine has the largest combat-ready army in Europe, and that’s why they must be supported since NATO forces are not ready for war with Russia. Is that still true if Russia starts a two-front attack and NATO, due to limited resources, has to choose between helping Poland/Baltics or Ukraine?
If Russia threatens nuclear strikes on NATO and the US officially withdraws its nuclear umbrella over Europe, is that effectively checkmate? Leaving aside the question of the effectiveness of Russia’s nukes, France and Britain’s arsenal would still be too small and too close to Russia/Belarus to cover all of NATO. So, checkmate then?
lauraz1986: I too notice the Soviet buildup east of Finland, Poland and Lithuania and expect a Soviet attack. Add to that, from a few years ago Japanese spooks uncovered plans by the CCP together with the Soviets to attack the U.S. with a “nuclear Pearl Harbor” that would target our land-based missiles as well as military bases and several of our major cities. Our aging, past shelf-life missiles have been ordered to absorb the first strike, how many will be able to retaliate afterwards? As far as I know, Trump has not reversed that order. Our industries are just now ramping up production of military hardware and supplies, won’t be fully on line until next year, or even later. The same is true for most of our NATO partners. If the Soviets spearhead their attacks with tactical nukes, will NATO stand even with U.S. troops still stationed there? Bottom line, if they attack this year, will our goose be cooked?
When would be a better time to attack than this year, when we are at our weakest?
Even without NATO, we got involved in the two world wars. Our enemies know that they must defeat us to prevent us from joining World War III. Today they have the means to make a first strike at our heartland, our industries, farms. Can we survive?
I am told they will be getting stronger for about three years. Any time in the next three years is a good window to attack USA.
To be successful in attacking NATO, Russia needs Trump to withdraw America’s support from Europe. They are working in this. Even then, Russia could lose because of their incompetence. But there are things we do not know. Is Russia building new armies with better leaders, troops, and equipment? Most experts would say “no.” The Kremlin seems pretty crazy right now.
Yes, I do put more confidence in Ukrainian speed of action, creativity, and intelligence capabilities. Lee looks at the battlefield directly, at what can be seen. Often the most important things are not seen. I am concerned there will be a flanking attack in Ukraine.
The Kyiv Post and a few other outlets are reporting about a former FBI Counterintelligence guy who claims Elon and Peter Thiel were targeted by Russian intelligence for blackmail/recruitment. For Elon, they allegedly exploited his love for drugs, pornography (I recall Elon deliberately, and bizarrely, showing his pornography apps on Twitter that he has on his phone, as if it was funny), and loose women. He was also given offers for direct communication with Putin, which, as I recall, there were reports he was doing exactly that a few months ago. The articles make no mention if Elon and Thiel were successfully recruited, only that they were targeted. Judging from the circumstances we can be positive they succeeded.
I wish I knew the answer. Recruitment of billionaires is not always easy. They can stab you in the back.
At this point, isn’t giving Trump the benefit of the doubt, making excuses for him as in saying that he is just ignorant and that it is the people around him giving him bad advice harming the anti-communist movement? I think that it is time for anti communists to cut all ties and support for Trump. I now skip over Jimmy when he is talking. Enough is enough.
A very good point – there is a limit to accepting ignorance and especially when such people don’t understand that they are being played by the very evil communist criminals, the most successful espionage secret service in the world, which is the KGB/GRU and their surrogates…and that when the elected leader of the country is friendly with such criminal illegitimate government and other such like (at the least) questionable decisions Trump has made, which are helpful to the Russian communist cause.
So to try to excuse it by saying that Trump is an ignoramous does not solve the problem – the results are, and when the time comes will become even more, catastrophic – and what will such voices say then, when millions are evaporated, the US nuclear button “fails to work” when it was supposed to have worked (and Trump didn’t push it – these are the kind of conclusions of trust being misplaced by many, when the KGB asset theory and the 1987/1996 Kremlin visits are set aside by them as marginal – or as a “conspiracy theory”).
Do NOT play with this, it will be deadly at the end, they will not quit nor make changes to their long-term communist doctrine just because people live in their dream of some kind wishful thnking that such communist criminals could change in time and amend their evil ways….they serve the devil and are doing his evils, among which the most evil task is to instal atheism and communism worldwide.
Those who don’t see it that way will find themselves one day paying for it with their own evils which they will have to endure from these Bolsheviks.
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1924614813738516984?t=wa52ou5gSCbmvc-14cG4sg&s=19
You wrote: “While national and tribal leaders have engaged in lying, killing, and plundering throughout history, they have never gone so far as to make it a principle – a “good thing” which must be practiced for the sake of attaining absolute mastery over mankind.” In my opinion there is at least one example tha speaks against that. The roman empire. E.g. Vergil: “But you, Roman, must remember that you have to guide the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to graft tradition onto peace, to shew mercy to the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.” In the end this “propaganda” was often used to legitimate the plundering and conquering of the ancient world and to legitimate the roman superiority over others. While i evaluate the fruits of the roman culture very positive, I do not in the case of communism. So is it really the plundering and conquering and in many cases lying thats the problem or ist it rather a state mind that accepts some ideologies better than others?
The Roman quote makes my point. They did not embrace lying and killing as principles to follow, but had their laws. All regimes have lied and killed. Which governments have made robbery a principle before communism? Communism wants to eliminate truth and corruption property and so on. Barbarians don’t have principles. The Romans had their system of laws. Their philosophy was not brazenly what we find in totalitarian regimes.
Jeff, Lee recently reported another update from German intelligence saying a Russian attack on NATO can happen in “several weeks”. Any updates on your side on a possible attack timeline?
I know about the German source. Other NATO sources think at least 90 days before anything can start.