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I see Poles and Balts being currently more prone to russophobic pathologies than irish, French or Italians. Now i would expect that poles and balts remember Russian exactions from history just as much as the Prussian ones, but what we get is selective memory. They are incentivised to selectively remember history.

France and Germany used to be able to have their own stance and align with Russia as recently as 2004. The vassalisation of Europe is very new, and the situation is very surprising to adults above 40 year old, and it is unusual.

What’s remarkable is not just the propaganda but the convergence of independent western institutions towards this cognitively dissonant policy. You see people going out of their way to cancel anyone who is trying to debias public discourse. It is what Curtis Yarvin called the Cathedral in action.

« The politicians lied to the journalists and then started to believe what the press said. »

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Karl Kraus (1874–1936): “How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.”

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I had a friend (now long passed away) who was a native of Latvia. He was there in the 1930s and 1940s before he emigrated to the US. I once asked him why Latvia supported the Germans when they invaded, and he said that Latvians, who were then part of the Soviet Union, viewed the Germans as liberators.

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I suppose if Russia or China invaded Scotland, they might be so regarded too.

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Why not extend it to the EU?

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It's getting to that point, to be sure.

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The Baltic states, especially Latvia, have always been stupid.

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Nice piece!

Consider making a list of top-25 things falsely blamed on Russia since 1991. Don't worry about the ordering within the set of 25, just make it a list of things you'd put as somewhere among the top 25.

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Trump 2020.

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Fall of soviet union due to Afghanistan incursion ought to top that

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among so many Hidden, Made in the West capaings of terrorism against Mother Russia

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Further on the suggestion:

1. Put the 25 items in chronological order.

2. In preparing, ask your readers to suggest items for the listing of top-25 things blamed on the Russian government 1991–2024. Post the request for help at Substack and X.

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Great article again Glenn, I was on a family holiday in August. 23 of us were together, on 1 of the evenings one of my family members piped up with some complete fantasy about Ukraine. I make a point of never engaging close people to me what I know, & have known for the past 2 decades. Of the Wrsts behaviour towards Russia. We're British by the way, probably the most propagandised nation in the world. About the conflict & Russia in General. I showed the actual facts & how ridiculous he is for believing our politicians & media over this conflict. Cast iron proof I gave. It made no difference whatsoever. I was attacked from every direction for showing facts. I'm not a shrinking violet by any means. After laughing at the comments directed at me. I started to say to each individual one by one. You've talked complete bullshit to me with no evidence whatsoever of your words you believe to a level only a retard would. Every single one of them I said the same thing, then I finished by saying. There's 8 of us here 7 have made statements they're utterly convinced are facts. But not a single one of those 7 can give any proof of what they're saying. 1 of us proved cast iron facts of what they said. But the 7 will try & say I'm the victim of propaganda. Stop & think about that for a minute or 2. I got up started laughing & walked away. No one mentioned the conflict again for the rest of the holiday 😂🤣😂.

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For at least a decade, and continuing to this day, I have engaged in discussions, conducted seminars, produced videos, and held extensive phone conversations with individuals often labeled as part of the resistance in the Western world. Not a single person has joined me in emphasizing the profound significance of this particular aspect of history: Bernays' work. His influence is all-encompassing and should be integral to every discussion concerning events since the 1920s and our perception of them, especially regarding the outcomes of World War II. It was immediately after World War II that Europe began to experience the 'joys' of Freud's findings, which are indeed accurate.

Not understanding the connection between the Marshall Plan, Bernays' work, The Bretton Woods agreement, the suffragette movement, the view we have on WW2, and what is going on today, is a total failure to actually be able to make changes.

Anyone is welcome to contact me on the blog, if you REALLY want to make changes.

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"I have engaged in discussions, conducted seminars, produced videos, and held extensive phone conversations with individuals often labeled as part of the resistance in the Western world. Not a single person has joined me in emphasizing the profound significance of this particular aspect of history: Bernays' work."

You wrote this. But ... I could have written exactly the same thing, myself. I used to teach at a college, and I used to edit the American Rationalist (for 14 years) and then my own magazine, Adventures in Freedom. As I mentioned in my response to "cape": I have achieved nothing.

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Thank you for your reply and contribution. It is weird how hard it is for "our side" (whatever that is) to understand this.

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'Othering' also involves blaming others for our own shadow, the guilt of our own behaviour.

It is literally the West that is uncivilised, barbaric, brutal, authoritarian, anti-liberal, and expansionist.

This is cast upon Russia, and we are to boo pretending all the horrors of European Colonialism, Slavery, World Wars, and mass Surveillance and 'Managed Democracy' (Plutocratic autocracy) are just "Conspiracy Theories".

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"Bernays had assisted in convincing the American public to join the First World War by selling war as perpetual peace with slogans such as “the war to end all wars” and to “make the world safe for democracy”."

The selling was not really successful. Wison won the election with the slogan "He kept us out of war."

Four months later, he sold it to Congress, but not the nation. Enlistments were meager despite propaganda such as Irish-American George M. Cohan's stirring anthem, Over There. A draft was necessary.

The "people" did not buy what the hucksters were selling.

Propaganda would truly take wing in WWII.

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“...the public will reject a workable peace if they believe there is a struggle between good and evil.” So at the heart of propaganda is morality. We can make some conclusions about morality and mass psychology... morality is an intrinsic part of identity. When you question a person's morality, that person automatically infers that her identity has been attacked. Her reaction is anger and rejection. Conversely, if propaganda supports a person's morality, then her reaction is acceptance. But in all cases, there's no rational thinking involved.

This brings us to the heart of the matter. Along with Greek philosophy and Roman legal concepts, Christianity was one of the three pillars of western advancement over the last two thousand years. And now Christianity has been attacked from all sides, to the point where it is severely diminished in western societies. It has radically devolved into a heresy of its foundational principles. It's been replaced by a woke leftist ideology that revolves around absolute EQUALITY! Wokism believes that objective truth is impossible, and reality is socially constructed.

So what is equality? Equality is a pristine, idealistic mental construct that subverts people into thinking that differences such as race, sex, income, and nationhood are sins to be overcome here in the real world. Equality is mistakenly turned into a moral virtue. But it's fake morality. It's a lie, and the pursuit of equality produces evil. "You shall be as gods"... equality is the basis of Original Sin, along with myriad other issues destroying Western Civilization. The conflation of equality with morality has hidden the true principles we should be following in the real world, such as consistency, accessibility, mobility, meritocracy, subsidiarity. Read it and weep: equality is NOT morality.

But of course, dear reader, your self-awareness has been corrupted so thoroughly by leftist grooming, that you absolutely refuse to consider what I'm saying. It makes no sense to you, and probably never will. None of you believe me, because you pooh-pooh ideology. You don't even understand the differences between fascism, naziism, and woke leftism. You revile religion, because that's too 18th century, too 'judgmental'. And because you refuse to believe it, you're unable to understand the forces that destroy your own societies. Instead you revert to sophomoric, secular explanations of 'greed' and 'power', mistaking the symptoms for the cause.

'When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.' G.K. Chesterton

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As I have written before, I don´t think the American and European masses are so stupid and deceived that they blindly believe in the persistent anti-Soviet, and now hysterical anti-Russian propaganda. They think they profit from capitalism and its imperialist expansion and so they do in fact. They profit from economic growth and share in the profits their imperialists bring home. In this way they get higher income and thus higher consumption.

Forget all about political leaders and peoples´ climate and environmental rhetoric.

Just look, at the unscrupulous and even increasing mass car motoring which is responsible for about 25 percent of global emissions. And they can not get enough, they all want more economic growth, more income, more consumption thus more climate destruction.

Of course they know that the Soviet Union never constituted a threat as the US and Nato propaganda indoctrinated them with throughout the Cold War, that their political leaders support a coup Nazi regime in Ukraine and militant islamic terrorists in Syria - but the point is that they are convinced that the Soviet socialist alternative, and now Russia is an obstacle to achieving their insatiable consumption based on fetishism and alienation. And that is the real reason why the American and European masses supported Soviet phobia and now Russophobia, knowing full well that they will have to pay for it.

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Groupthink Dialectics are key to the Unipolar Masters's very existence purpose and rule.

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Weak western academics, diplomats and businessmen were shown the door only a few years after the Russians were exposed to them. The Russians weighed them up, found them wanting, took their money and then kicked them out. Some of them went from Russia to Ukraine, where people were poorer and more desperate, and they found a common enemy in the Russians, and fertile ground for white collar grant money laundering. Bernays' methods are a tool, but the cause is resentment by Westerners for the fact that Russians have no use for what the westerners are offering, and older resentments by people who had to endure Russian chauvinism. These two groups have aligned against the Russians for now, but the alliance will fail because of internal contradictions.

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I did, of course. I have bought two of his most seminal books: The Technological Society and Propaganda. I tried to bring them, particularly the first one, to the attention of my students and the readers of my magazine, Adventures in Freedom. I think I have achieved nothing.

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Very significant in the current situation of history. Brainwashing is plain sight.

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The worst sort of racism is that of even black Americans towards us ....snowniggers.....

There i used the verboten word. God can strike me dead now

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Yes. I am a USSR born American citizen.

America is a lie.

I ran for Mayor of SF killafornia in 2007.

ScKamala Harris threw me into jail. Solitary isolation.

Gruesome Gavin Gruesome Newsom won, of course. Then he later promoted for the globalsluts sic scamdemic Harmacide hacksxxxine injextions needlerape viruganda depopulation agenda. He wants to kill your kids, Gavin Newsom said care not cash. We get neither.

They stole my Grasshopper taxi business forevermore.

They saw how dangerous it is to speak to folks, about 1 percent voted for me. My total campaign contributions were all of eight dollars I tried to refuse.

The lies about Russia have forced Russia to become the dominant power on the planet else be eaten like a cooked octopus....

Luckily Russia has always been a fabulous responsible nation. We Russia never nuked no one. But I hereby request of my dad Vlad. If you must nuke, please Nuke SF killafornia first, thank you big

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I live in California and therefore do not support being nuked. I support Russia against Ukrainian Nazis. I am a Marxist. I have lived in San Francisco since the 1960s and have never heard of you.

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“… Portraying Russia as a barbaric other suggests that the West must civilise, contain or destroy Russia to enhance security.…”

This is partly a recycling of the same mythologies that the so called west has manufactured for the past 4-500 years, to convince their masses that their naked, ceaseless colonial aggression around the world is in fact a “civilizing” mission.

In fact they dont just do this to people - they even do it to nature itself: ravaging it for “security”. That is what is going on now under the guise of “securing critical minerals” and “climate change”. Not that climate change isnt real - but it has been hajacked as a cover for a lot of economic activity that is needless and WONT address the actual problem of climate change, which is overconsumption and overuse by a relatively small set of people on this planet.

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The individual mind is the satellite spinning around the mother planet of collective unconsciousness, C.G.Jung did some research in this direction, others Coué, Napoleon Hill and more followed or preceded but the one who put in into a system, Patanjali made it clear even a methodology to disconnect, the personal mind is the coercion, the self hypnosis and the propaganda device of an outer world, everyone creates for himself. It’s non existent before one is born and it will disappear when on leaves this so-called place earth.

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