Decoding ideological subversion, Kremlin desinfo, & the socialist playbook. Inspired by Bezmov’s warnings. Liberty and a small state. Commentary account
1/ In 1984 a KGB defector explained how you conquer a nation without firing a shot. He called it ideological subversion. 4 stages. Most people have never heard of them. Let's fix that. 🧵
Moscow offers Washington an energy "ceasefire" and nuclear-powered data centers.
Zelensky says Russia has hit Ukraine's energy sites 76 times since that ceasefire.
Carrot for the US, missiles for Ukraine. The KGB called it active measures: split the allies, then deal. #Russia
@TheStudyofWar Notice the week's pattern: inflated map gains, Dmitriev dangling joint data centers to Washington, and strikes on Ukraine's grid. Carrot for the US, stick for Kyiv. Split the allies first, negotiate later.
Socialist Russia: They came at night. By morning you had confessed to a crime you never committed.
In 1937 the NKVD had arrest quotas by region. Torture filled them. Article 58 made anyone an "enemy of the people."
Why do so few schools teach it?
@WallStreetMav Immigration is a cause, not the root cause. Western values in France were lost and socialist ideas took over before the immigration crisis began.
@DanielJHannan Textbook active measures. Put two leaders in one fake clip and let both halves of the West fight over it. The goal isn't to make you believe it. It's to make you trust nothing
@HormuzLetter Dmitriev's job is to dangle deals, not sign them. Every 'joint project' headline buys the Kremlin time on sanctions. Worth noting: no US official has confirmed any of it
@reason Libertarians should see it first: a regime that jails its critics and crushes its own press doesn't negotiate in good faith with anyone. Non-aggression starts with the aggressor
@visegrad24 Riots don't come from nowhere. Demoralizing kids for decades with communist propaganda into thinking the system is rotten and the state is the only answer leads them to burn the shops of the workers they claim to defend.
@KyivIndependent A ceasefire broken 76 times isn't a ceasefire. It's a pause to reload and a headline for Western audiences. The goal was never to stop the strikes, it was to make the West feel peace was close.
This week, decoded:
1. The Kremlin inflates frontline "wins" to demoralize the West
2. The "not one inch" NATO myth is back, now in the US Senate
3. Socialism's pitch hasn't changed: tax the producers, fund the rest
Which one deserves a full thread next week?
Venezuela sits on the largest proven oil reserves on Earth and still ran out of gasoline.
Socialism doesn't fail for lack of resources. It fails because it punishes the people who produce them. #Socialism#Venezuela
"Who's gonna stop him?"
In a free country the answer should be boring: Congress, the courts, the Constitution.
Every power you cheer for your side gets inherited by the side you fear. That's the whole case for a small state.