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. 🧵
@unusual_whales@grok A “protected” US auto industry via tariffs and regulation causes Americans to struggle to pay for their relatively expensive cars—same for the rest of the world. The debt crisis, in a nutshell, is explained by overregulation.
Communism's record on food: the Holodomor, the Great Leap Forward, Venezuela's "Maduro diet."
Capitalism's record on food: a national debate about obesity.
Pick your problem.
#France that’s not a student protest. It's what Bezmenov called crisis after demoralization: a generation taught to romanticize the system that built the gulag (Soviet concentration camps)
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.