Putin Funds Fake Protests, Rattles Nukes

Townhall.com ^ | April 20, 2022 | Austin Bay

[Kaslin]

Fake protests throughout the world and threats of nuclear war -- in 2022 we witness a violent echo of 1983's Kremlin-orchestrated frauds.

I'll address the nuke threat first.

On Feb. 27 Russian President Vladimir Putin played drama king and put Russian nuclear forces on high alert. His war in Ukraine already failing, Vlad added nuclear pucker factor. Translation into emotional propaganda: world beware, or I'll start Armageddon.

In 1983 the Russians worked a "reserve psychology" propaganda trope using nukes. See, the U.S. was the threat to launch a nuclear war in Europe, even though the Kremlin had physically created the conditions for nuclear war.

In the 1970s the Russian Empire, in the guise of the Soviet Union, started deploying SS-20 ballistic missiles to eastern Europe. The missiles threatened western European cities with quick destruction. NATO responded to Russia's escalation with a "dual track" policy pushed by President Jimmy Carter's hem and haw administration. NATO would negotiate to remove the SS-20s but, should the Russians refuse to withdraw them, NATO would deploy equivalent systems.

The Kremlin's chess players snickered. They saw their end game: Negotiations would fail. Leveraging anti-American tropes (Adolf Hitler dismissed Americans as "cowboys"), Moscow's propagandists would portray NATO's response to the SS-20s as the aggressive act. To frightened Europeans, America's promise to protect Europe with its nuclear umbrella would morph into an American nuke threat to Europe. The chess geniuses argued this propaganda judo could shatter NATO.

[HiryusanMkII]

His nukes rattle?
Did he buy them from Doc Brown?

[ETCM]

Immediately, concocted by Moscow, The Great Political Panic Crisis to stop NATO's counter-deployment began in full media fury. Western "peace" organizations, pacifists, Communist sympathizers and academic idiots demonstrated throughout Europe and the U.S., their protests motley yet synchronized. In October 1983 the demonstrations intensified -- a crescendo. The hysterics in leftist media howled about Reagan's nuclear war.

Sounds a lot like FR these days...

[Gen.Blather]

Putin is a gambler. He’s had no serious reality corrective feedback in probably twenty years. Therefore, his perspective on reality is almost certainly distorted. I believe that Putin will use a nuke because he perceives the West, as led by a senile pedophile, as incapable of playing poker at his level. Most likely he’ll use a tactical nuke on some major target that’s impeding his army’s movement. He perceives this as getting a couple of new cards from the poker dealer. My guess is there will be a lot of “condemnation” and the supply of western arms to Ukraine will dry up. I hope I’m wrong. But I think Putin sees himself as the embodyment of Russia and an insult to him is an insult to Russia. And, unlike him, Russia is “powerful.”

[NWFree]

Soros has been funding fake protests and rattling his dentures for years 🤪

[oblomov]

But the fake protests funded by the US (”Arab Spring”, “color revolutions”, Maidan “protests”, etc.) are all for democracy, freedom, and a McDonald’s or a Citibank on every street corner.