Russias meddling to get Donald Trump elected president is straight out of the old KGB playbook

[flamingdem]

http://qz.com/864189/election-2016-russian-intervention-on-behalf-of-donald-trump-this-election-is-straight-out-of-the-kgb-playbook/

Mysterious arrests. Disappearances. A far away death in an unknown gulag concealed from family for a generation. These are realities for those of us whose families came to the US from Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the last world war and subsequent Soviet occupation. These are also the reasons why every act against Donald Trump now is an act of patriotism on behalf of the American people.

During the 1970s and 1980s, KGB defectors warned Americans to beware Russian interference. Those warnings were mostly buried. Today, however, Trump’s rise should be examined in the context of these methods of Kremlin ideological subversion and psychological warfare.

The confluence of evidence suggests Donald Trump was supported, and his campaign efforts bolstered, by Russia this election season (as the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency have concluded). Plucked from the KGB’s (now FSB’s) playbook for installing world leaders sympathetic to Moscow, we are now witnessing what Russian intelligence officers would refer to as “active measures.”

The first phase of this strategy is to bombard a nation with propaganda, usually of a racist, anti-Semitic nature. The point of this propaganda is to sow the seeds of discord among a population. The second phase is the instigation of incidents that can be used and broadcast widely for the purposes of demoralization. In phase three, Russia installs a friendly leader and leverages the economy according to Moscow’s will.

In the US, phase one was accomplished through the spread of propaganda, often but not always in the form of “fake news,” on social media and at Trump’s rallies. Mainstream media networks played a useful role here by allowing Trump’s rallies to be broadcast unfiltered and often unchallenged, further normalizing Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric. We are now between the second phase, with its intent of demoralization. We must never allow the final stage.

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[David__77]

1. Is Russian support necessarily a mark against a candidate?

I think that in 1984, some circles in the Soviet government might have thought it would be best for Walter Mondale to win the US presidency. I believe I would have been quite pleased to vote for Mondale.

[flamingdem]

2. Umm, there is a difference between support and hiring trolls to flood the internet

and create propaganda AND hack private emails and reveal them strategically.

[triron]

5. And manipulate the vote.

[TheFrenchRazor]

8. Putin's/Russia's corruption makes Trump's corruption look like child's play. Trump is Putin's MiniMe

Trump is Putin's MiniMe. That is in no way good for america.

[Generator]

3. There are so many ties between Russia and Trump

for anyone interested (I'd think you would be but whatever lets argue over DNC chair like that is going to change squat lol but I digress) at the http://www.democraticcoalition.org/

I posted something similar a couple weeks ago. The Russia angle is the only thing that will ever bring the Republicons on board to stop Trump in my opinion. That's why I think it's the most important thing. We can't convince his idiot followers but those in office know a lot more than they are telling.

[TheFrenchRazor]

4. that's the thing, and Putin is supposedly worth $40billion in corrupt, embezzled money from the old

USSR, now russia, etc.; he's got all the money in the world to buy a tool like Trump, and all the election meddling/hacking it takes to get him elected. Putin owns trump, and trump is so stupid he doesn't even know it.

[flamingdem]

7. Let's hope we can get through to some Republicans

and I'm sure many of them are pretty disgusted about the Putin connection

[BigDemVoter123]

6. It just sounds so fantastic. Unbelievable. Stunning.

Nauseating.

[Cha]

9. They could not have done it without them.. I'd say "useful"

Mainstream media networks played a useful role here by allowing Trump’s rallies to be broadcast unfiltered and often unchallenged, further normalizing Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric. We are now between the second phase, with its intent of demoralization. We must never allow the final stage

Mahalo, flamingdem

[flamingdem]

10. Well let's hope that something was learned

It's in the media's interest to discourage world destruction by the nutty nukester! (I hope..)

My very best to you Cha!

[Cha]

11. I have my doubts about the US M$Media******

Imv, they brought us ISIS through pimping bush2's war on Iraq.. they don't care as long as the ratings and ads are being bought.

My very best to you, Flamingdem!