This ex-KGB agent's account of how to destabilise a nation is eerily relevant

[Soph0571]

He says:
Only about 15 per cent of time money and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85 per cent is what we call ideological subversion or active measures ... or psychological warfare.


What it basically means is to change the perception of reality for every American to such an extent that despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community and their countries.

You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information; even if you prove that white is white and black is black.

He goes on to explain that the next stage is destabilisation.

It takes only between two and five years to destabilise a nation. What matters is essentials: economy, foreign relations, defence systems.

The following stage is "crisis".

It may only take up to six weeks to bring a country to the verge of a crisis.

After the crisis, "with a violent change in power, structure and economy" you have the "period of normalisation" which may last indefinitely.

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[link:https://www.indy100.com/article/kgb-russia-interference-usa-uk-putin-9218891|]

Putins playbook 101?!?!?

[malaise]

1. I lived through British and American disinformation

It's true. They can convince people who lived and loved together to hate one another.
And it is much easier in the age of the internet. That said institutions are stronger than many folks think. Unfortunately scars remain.

[VOX]

2. And there stands KGB-trained Putin, astride a reality-deficient United States.

We have been attacked by a hostile foreign power, and it should be perceived as what it genuinely is: WARFARE. 45 & Co. couldn’t be more enabling, like Vichy France in WWII: "Work, Family, Fatherland.”

No need for messy nukes and 100-plus years of fallout, when malefactors can take down a democracy by simply turning its citizens against one another.

[Celerity]

3. G. Edward Griffin is a RWNJ, one of Alex Jones' mentors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Edward_Griffin

G. Edward Griffin (born November 7, 1931) is an American author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist. Griffin's writings promote a number of views and conspiracy theories regarding various of his political, defense and health care interests.

In his book World Without Cancer, he argued in favor of a pseudo-scientific theory that asserted cancer to be a nutritional deficiency curable by consuming amygdalin.

He is the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island (1994), which promotes false theories about the motives behind the creation of the Federal Reserve System. He is an HIV/AIDS denialist, supports the 9/11 Truth movement, and supports a specific John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory. He also believes that the biblical Noah's Ark is located at the Durupınar site in Turkey.

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Griffin has been a member and officer of the John Birch Society (JBS) for much of his life and a contributing editor to its magazine, The New American. Since the 1960s, Griffin has spoken and written about the Society's theory of history involving "communist and capitalist conspiracies" over banking systems (including the Federal Reserve System), International banking, United States foreign policy, the U.S. military–industrial complex, the American news and entertainment media as propaganda, the Supreme Court of the United States, and the United Nations.

[underpants]

4. Thanks for the background

Sounds like a real loon.

[dewsgirl]

5. I saw this yesterday. Scary as hell.