“I never really understood how people could accept the formation of communism around them,” he wrote. “Now I do.”
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The article is good analysis—that has been my view for a while now.
Obama put the mass propaganda machine in place.
You actually have folks championing this act.
“Hurrah, now we too have government propaganda!!!”
I love the way they describe it. You now get the “opportunity” to be propagandized by government. LOL
Insiders refer to this as “apple pie propaganda.”
Any power you give government, they will use and abuse (FISA, UCSs, etc), and to that end Covid was the first time these new powers were used wide scale on the US public (totally under reported).
What people do not understand regards censorship, is that it has been going on full swing for a longer time. You don’t realize what you’re missing (don’t know what you don’t know) and if you are able to truly get out from under it, you realize what’s going on. Even though you have for example RT in the US, you don’t really get RT, much is missing and you don’t really get that news which our government thinks goes against their agenda.
You have 4 servers, two on each coast that filter everything coming in and going out.
The problem with the combination of censorship and propaganda is that while the truth is still out there usually (a small percent may be talking about it), the government is able to dominate the narrative and since 85% of the decisions we make are emotional (we predominantly act on feelings not logic), you can basically steer public perception and thereby behaviors.
It’s not about what the 2% - 5% think or even what everyone has heard rumors of, it’s about what you can make the other 95% act on (example Covid vaccine “safe and effective”).
The problem you run into today is that because this censorship and propagandizing is done with a smile, no one comes and burns books or beats someone for saying something, the end effect is still that the public is controlled, but you don’t have the public rebelling against it.
In most cases people are not even aware of the silent hand in the background guiding them. Regards Covid they took things really far and the public began to grumble about social distancing, closing businesses and vaccine mandates, but social media (where most people get their “news” from today) and the MSM did their job and people were generally compliant. Opposing voices were marginalized, made out as conspiracy theorists, and the people did as told.
“false media narratives pushing a NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, “Sundance” soberly concluded that “We the People” are in an abusive relationship with government.”
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Yes, there are many false media narratives that, at times, are pushed down our throats by governments or fueled by collective hysteria.
However, the so-called “NATO–Russia war,” as you put it, is largely a non-issue. There is no NATO–Russia war. As long as NATO is perceived by the Kremlin as powerful and unified enough, Russia will simply not dare to attack it. And NATO, being a defensive alliance by design, will never initiate a war against Russia. NATO exists for one reason: to prevent exactly what Europe spent the 20th century suffering from the most, Russian expansionism through invasion and coercion.
What did happen is this: Russia attacked Ukraine without any formal declaration of war and has already seized and “annexed” large parts of four Ukrainian oblasts, absurdly labeling them as Russian territory. That is nothing less than 19th-century colonialism resurfacing in real time.
This reality is what pushed Trump to force Europe to confront the obvious: Russia is willing, and historically able, to move further into Europe if it believes resistance will be weak. That is why he demanded NATO members radically increase their defense spending, even up to 5 percent of GDP. To some, that sounds excessive. It isn’t. It reflects the scale of the threat.
Trump was not promoting a false narrative. He was responding to a real one: Russia’s demonstrated pattern of expansion across Ukraine, Crimea, Moldova, Georgia, and its constant threats against Poland, Finland, and the Baltic states. These are not hypothetical risks. They are an ongoing campaign of intimidation, destabilization, and territorial ambition.
Trump’s logic is simple: if you want peace, prepare for war.
And on that point, I completely agree.