RTFri, 16 Nov 2018 17:56 UTC
© Reuters / Joshua Roberts
Russia has been scheming for decades to splinter the West with civilization-shattering fake news, claims a shocking three-part film series published by the
New York Times. The series was filed under "op-ed" for a reason, however.
Russia's alleged "meddling" in the 2016 presidential election is the "culmination of Moscow's decades-long campaign to tear the West apart," according to the scary graphics-filled, spooky music-stuffed
video series. The three-part report - safely labelled opinion/editorial - insists that America's internal political squabbles can be traced back to a "virus" conceived by "KGB spies"in the 1980s. Who knew that the Soviets had Twitter?
"Americans are using Russia's playbook against one another without the faintest clue," the NYT series warns. To back up their ironclad claims, the filmmakers interview a former Czechoslovak intelligence service officer, Ladislav Bittman, about all the terrible fake news that the KGB once spread - and purportedly continues to inspire. But how exactly did Bittman become privy to these juicy KGB scoops? The ex-spook never worked for the Soviet security service, and fled to the US in 1968. Just an opinion, basically.RT's Murad Gazdiev takes a closer look at the sensational op-ed series - concluding that the evidence-free accusations might be an unfortunate case of psychological projection.
Comment: "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
LOL!
I mean, I was under the impression that Modern Art as it shamelessly squats upon our culture is indeed the successful product of a long psyop program dreamed up in Communist Russia to undermine the West. -Modern art, along with the Feminist movement and the Gaia Earth Mother pseudo-religion, to name a couple of the prongs of the action plan. -Basically the idea was to promote anything which served to erode the cultural and social pillars which made America a strong and capable enemy were to be chipped away at until the whole nation fell into the black hole of itself. Which is where we currently are.
There's video interview shot in the 80's of an ex KGB agent laying it all out on scratchy VHS on YouTube somewhere...
Except the thing is, this particular psyop was dreamed up and launched by the Communists fifty years ago. There's nobody at the master switch anymore. It's a rogue program now running on auto pilot. -Though, I suppose if we think in terms of Nationalist agendas, modern Russia might stand to gain where the West loses ground, so it might be with a tactful standing-back that Putin's Russia is watching the West unravel. Though it would seem to me that nobody really wins if America descends into hysteria. I don't know if Putin's Russia would enact such a program today.
In any case, none of that has anything to do with hacking elections or emails or whatever. The scope of such a cold war operation would have been designed by grown up spies with a modicum of intelligence and subtlety, -not the Boris and Natasha cartoon bomb kind of 'spycraft' the Democrats are desperately seeking under every rock and bed.