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VLADIMIR PUTINS ADVISER TELLS AMERICANS: RUSSIA INTERFERES IN YOUR BRAINS, WE CHANGE YOUR CONSCIENCE
BY CRISTINA MAZA at Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-president-vladimir-putin-election-americans-1327793
"SNIP....
Americans who worry about Russia election interference should stop focusing on such trivialities and instead realize that the idea that they have a choice over how they are governed is a mere illusion, Vladislav Surkov, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, wrote in an op-ed published this week.
The illusion of choice is the most important illusion, the main trick of Western democracy especially
. The rejection of this illusion in favor of the reality that everything is predestined will allow society to reflect first on our vision of democratic development, Surkov wrote. Foreign politicians talk about Russias interference in elections and referendums around the world. In fact, the matter is even more serious: Russia interferes in your brains, we change your conscience, and there is nothing you can do about it.
In his op-ed for the Russian publication Nezavisimaya Gazeta, or Independent Newspaper, Surkov also laid out Putins vision of returning Russia to its rightful role as a global superpower and exporting Putinism as an ideology to be adopted around the world.
After having fallen from the USSR to the Russian Federation, Russia stopped collapsing and began to recover and return to its natural and only possible state as a large nation that is on the rise, he wrote.
.....SNIP"
Send this link to your Trump cult family and friends:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/after-service/201902/the-purpose-brainpower-are-we-misusing-our-minds
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)** Acts of War against the USA as determined by all 17 US Intelligence Agencies.
procon
(15,805 posts)should we just surrender quietly and live out our lives in the "1984" utopia that Putin has designed for us?
StarryNite
(9,459 posts)look over here" to take the focus off tRump and putin working together. They don't want their water boy to be ousted.
912gdm
(959 posts)I am a big lover in Indiana Jones but I HATED that movie.
Im not trying to downplay Russian interference in any way, but when the president gets his border wall info from the movie Sicario: Day of the Soldado, it's pretty funky that a Russian aide mimics a character by Cate Blanchett
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)And if you can further polarize the two sides in the process, so much the better for future national chaos.
Crimea was the proof of concept, Brexit was the dress rehearsal, Trump was the triumph.
Surkov, Dugin, Gerasimov and Putin conceived, designed, planned and orchestrated it. Mogilevich/oligarch money funded it. American voters swallowed it - hook, line and sinker.
applegrove
(118,767 posts)bdamomma
(63,919 posts)Russians are getting very vocal and poking their fingers in our eyes. And laughing too.
bdamomma
(63,919 posts)psychological warfare??? Is that correct??
Nothing we can do about it????? 37% have drank the kool aid, the rest of have not.
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)Democrats are not immune to psyops. They are just susceptible to different propaganda.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)The ones who knew about Russian interference almost from the beginning and weren't afraid to say so. Of course the Trumpers fell for Trumputian lies, but too many on the left either looked the other way or actually accepted and voted the Russian backed Jill Stein, and fell for all the lies about Hillary Clinton. That all came straight from the Russian brain changers.
And of course, there were too many compromised American politicians like Trump, Graham, etc.
But good Democrats stood strong. We're still standing. Fuck you, Vlad.
Apollyonus
(812 posts)of how Hillary and Trump were equally bad on a site started by some people from here who were unhappy that their candidate lost the primaries.
Aided by the likes of stupid Susan Sarandon ... bad memes and rumors made into whole false narratives thanks to some misguided Democrats and a whole lot of Russian inspired idiots.
I ask them, "Now, do you think Hillary would have been as bad as Trump?"
roamer65
(36,747 posts)In fact, I hate them more.
triron
(22,019 posts)triron
(22,019 posts)Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)Putin and his people are parasites with gigantic egos.
bdamomma
(63,919 posts)they keep information away from them. hmmmm ..sound familiar??? Keep the masses ignorant.
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)He does make a valid point that it is difficult to know for sure if what we're hearing/reading is a real "message", or if it's something that being pushed by others for other reasons that benefit them in some ways. Then again, does it matter if their goals align with yours AND if the end results are positive without causing some sort of damage?