re: Trump kneecaps CIA

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Color revolutions fukked

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But how will i know what medication will hide my AIDS.

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Do you have a link to that episode? I'd like to listen.

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Deep interplay between government, tech companies, universities, NGOs that dates back 80 years. You look at the evolution of NGOs like Freedom House or the Atlanta Council or Wilson center in promoting these free speech things. But what happened was, is in 20 2014, we had had about 25 years of successful free speech diplomacy. And then there was a. You know, we tried to overthrow the government of Ukraine. We successfully did. And I'm not even arguing whether that's a good or a bad thing. But the fact is, is the US did effectively January 6th, the Yanukovych government out of power in 2014. I mean, we literally had our Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, handing out cookies and water bottles to violent street protesters as they surrounded the parliament building and ran the democratically elected government out of office.

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But then what happened is the eastern.

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Side of the state completely broke away. So we don't respect this new US installed government. Crimea voted in a referendum to join the Russian Federation and that kicked off. That sort of set in motion the events that would end the concept of free speech diplomacy is like a US government unfettered. Good. Because what they argued is we pumped $5 billion worth of US government money into media institutions in Ukraine. That's the figure that's cited by Victoria Nuland in December 2013, right before the coup. $5 billion. Setting up independent media companies, basically sponsoring Mockingbird style, our media assets in the region. And they still didn't penetrate Eastern Ukraine. Eastern Ukraine was primarily ethnic Russian. Didn't penetrate Crimea. So they said, we need something to stop them from being able to combat our media influence. And they initially called this the Gerasimov Doctrine, named after Valery Gerasimov, who is this Russian general. They took a quote from him saying, the new nature of war is no longer about military to military conflict.

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All we need to do is take.

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Over the media in these NATO countries, and that's primarily social media. Get one of our pawns elected as the president, and that president will control the military. So it's much cheaper and more efficient to win a military war by simply winning civilian elections. So that was called the Gerasimov Doctrine. That's what set up the early censorship infrastructure in 2014. Three years later, the guy who coined that, Mark Galeotti, would write a sort of mea culpa saying, oops, I'm sorry. Gerasimov was actually citing what the US Does. But by that point, they'd already renamed it hybrid warfare. NATO formally declared its tanks to tweets doctrine, saying that the new role of NATO is no longer just about tanks, it's about controlling tweets. And then Brexit happened in June 2016. In July 2016, the very next month in Warsaw, NATO added hybrid warfare to its formal charter, basically authorizing the military, the diplomatic sphere, and the intelligence world to take control over social media. And then five months later, Trump won the election, being called a Russian asset. So all that infrastructure was redirected home to the U.S. jesus.

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It was looking pretty bleak, I would say, in terms of the direction Internet censorship was headed. It seemed like the censorship machine was winning up until around the time that Elon purchased X. That seems to me to be our fork in the road. That's the alternative timeline. You know, Marc Andreessen talked about that yesterday, that we've had a couple of alternative timelines where things have shifted. I think that was one of the big ones.

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Does everyone think that weakening the CIA benefits Donald Trump? How would degrading their ability to collect intelligence help decision makers make better decisions?

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Decatur

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Andreeson was full of shite on that point.

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