A Review Of Recent Events
Subversive forces inside the US are waging a Hybrid War of Terror on America, one that's been decades in the making but finally turned kinetic in the run-up to Trump's prospective re-election. For those readers who aren't familiar with the author's earlier work on this topic, they're requested to read or at least skim through the following articles in order to obtain an understanding of his interpretation of contemporary events that will frame the present analysis about their origins and their prospective development across the course of this year:
* 1 June: "Mayhem In America: Masks Off, Molotovs Out!"
* 2 June: "America Has The Right To Protect Itself From Urban Terrorism"
* 3 June: "What Comes After America's Nationwide Anti-Terrorist Operation?"
* 4 June: "Antifa Wants To Lead African-Americans To Their Slaughter To Spark A Race War"
To
oversimplify, domestic terrorist groups led on the ground primarily by
the largely decentralized Antifa network are doing everything they can
to encourage angry African-Americans to carry out a nationwide crime
wave together with acts of urban terrorism so as to increase the
likelihood of them getting killed en masse by the police, National
Guard, and/or military as the next step in provoking a "race race", the
resultant chaos of which could then be exploited to advance their
ideological agenda of "revolution".
Education Or Indoctrination?
What's happening in America today took decades to get to this point since ordinary Americans wouldn't otherwise react the way that many of them regrettably are unless they were truly enraged at something so intensely to put others' lives and their own in danger through wanton acts of urban terrorism. Their worldview wasn't shaped in a day, but over decades, and that initially began in the educational system which was gradually subverted by left-wing radicals to the point where almost all college professors today identify with this ideology or one of its variants. They indoctrinated several generations of Americans "across the color spectrum" into believing that their country is a "racist dictatorship" profiting off of "economic injustice". There's definitely some truth to the general point that America is imperfect like all countries are, with its own particular systemic challenges that have made life difficult for some categories of folks more so in the past than in the present day, but that truth has been manipulated in order to radicalize the population according to certain triggers that most directly affect each identity demographic (e.g. racism and the criminal justice system for African-Americans, "reverse-racism" for Caucasians, feminism for women, corruption for the vast majority of the people, etc.).
Trotskyist Terror
This observation makes it relevant to discuss the influence of Trotskyist thought, which in this context simply refers to the concept of a so-called "permanent revolution". There's nothing wrong with the idea of continual improvement, but it's been exploited by radical left-wing ideologies in order to promote the Machiavellian mantra that "the ends justify the means". That said end is what its adherents truly believe (whether on their own or due to mental manipulation by "vanguard" elements of "the movement") to be a "better world" for everyone, hence why they think that morality has no place when it comes to means. Thus, even acts of urban terrorism and the tricking of "useful idiots" into being slaughtered are "acceptable". "The movement" does everything in its power to ensure that "the cause" is always on everyone's minds so that nobody ever forgets about it but is instead always incited into becoming ever more radicalized so that their anger can then be "constructively" (or rather, destructively) channeled in the direction of their greater goal. Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals", which he dedicated to "the first radical" Lucifer (Satan) in order to emphasize the amorality of his Machiavellian methods, provides perfect insight into the typical "revolutionary's" mindset.
Relativism & Deconstructivism
One of the ways through which the educational establishment has indoctrinated Americans has been to have them relativize and deconstruct their society, though not in a purely objective manner (if one can even be applied in theory), but along the lines of whatever will portray "the movement's" "cause" as "good/legitimate" and the existing system/establishment/everything else as "bad/illegitimate". That's not to say that relativism and deconstructivism aren't useful to practice, but just to point out that they're one of the more popular means through which generations have been manipulated, with the effects cumulatively building to the point where each generation becomes more radicalized than their predecessors. This is made possible not only by the "perfecting" of such "perception management" techniques, but also by indoctrinated parents forcing their children to believe the same things that they do, thus giving them an "ideological boost" from an early age that they themselves didn't have and which could make them radicalize faster and more intensely than they ever did. Convinced of the validity of their worldview and the supposed "necessity" of "revolution", these mass-produced "foot soldiers" then demand maximalist outcomes and unconditional surrenders.
"The Long March Through The Institutions"
The next factor to focus on is the concept of "the long march through the institutions" which seeks to embed "revolutionaries" and their "fellow travelers" (ideological sympathizers who might not be as radicalized as the first-mentioned) into various institutions beyond just the educational one. In practice, this most often takes the form of embedding them in influential places like the church, the media, and "Big Tech", to say nothing of all levels of government: local/state/federal and executive/legislative/judicial. The purpose is to slowly take control of the state and society without arousing too much suspicion, but as the infiltration begins to succeed, certain signs become visible once these individuals feel comfortable enough in their positions to start actively shaping the country through relevant policies. This also sometimes takes the form of "politically flamboyant" personalities becoming popular in society for their outspoken views such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of "the squad" alongside their "fellow travelers" in "Big Tech" like Twitter's Jack Dorsey among others for example. The end result is that society realizes that influential people harbor what had previously (and rightly) been considered to be radical ideologies, which contributes to gradually changing the national culture.
Gramsci's "Cultural Hegemony"
Interwar Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci is credited with pioneering the concept of "cultural hegemony" whereby he basically asserted that "revolutions" can increase their chance of success by capturing the national culture through various means. Nowadays this is seen not only in the public faces of some people who have completed "the long march through the institutions" (especially in the media), but also especially among celebrities. The outcome is that a certain so-called "political correctness" creeps in which pressures individuals to censor themselves from expressing any beliefs that don't conform with what's wrongly presented to be the "majority consensus" even though it's more often than not still only the view of the radical but influential minority. This doesn't always relate to the purely economic foundations of leftism either but increasingly takes the form of what critics have described as "Cultural Marxism", or the attempted application of leftism's common denominator of "equality" into the cultural sphere, which purely economic leftists decry as ideological heresy that discredits their ideas. Consequently, they refuse to associate with that term and those that use it despite many "Cultural Marxists" proudly espousing leftist economic views as well.
"Ideological Subversion"
In parallel with these previously mentioned processes is what KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov described during a 1985 interview as "ideological subversion". It's unimportant that he attributed this strategy to the USSR (whether rightly or wrongly) since it can be applied by any ideologically motivated network irrespective of partisanship that doesn't necessarily have to be state-backed. The four phases of "ideological subversion" are demoralization (making the majority skeptical of the status quo and feeling seemingly powerless to resist the "revolutionaries"), destabilization (a series of incidents that radicalize people and precondition the population to expect a crisis), crisis (the "trigger event" for catalyzing the most active and usually violent part of the campaign), and normalization ("the new normal" once the "revolutionaries" seize complete power even if they don't officially proclaim victory in the event that they succeeded in secret). As everything that's been discussed thus far in the analysis unfolds, the "Overton Window" shifts whereby what was previously considered radical is now seen as "normal" and the "old normal" becomes the "new radical" that's then presented by the "drivers of change" as the "dangerous fringe" that society must continue moving away from.
From Destabilization To Crisis
The phased transition from destabilization to crisis is facilitated by structural preconditioning such as the deliberate mental and economic hardships brought about by the Democrat Governors' decisions to impose strict COVID-19 lockdowns and the propagandizing of provocative narratives throughout society via the media such as the viral videos of police brutality against African-Americans. The first-mentioned makes the population more desperate and therefore increasingly likely to directly participate in the physical manifestation of the "revolution" even if they were previously having second doubts and preferred to only be "fellow travelers" (passive supporters). The second, meanwhile, incites the "revolutionary vanguard" (the role of which some participants such as criminally inclined African-Americans today aren't even conscious that they're playing) into a rage that triggers their prior amoral programming by reminding them that "the ends justify the means" even if it's only to opportunistically take advantage of the forthcoming crisis for selfish reasons like looting. Taken together, this further the "conscious vanguard's" cause of chaos that'll enter into effect upon the commencement of the crisis.
Color Revolution Chaos
The ongoing kinetic phase of the Hybrid War of Terror on America couldn't have been possible had it not been for the uncontrollable proliferation of the same Color Revolution tactics and strategies that the US government invented over nearly the past two decades then subsequently spread across the internet. It was therefore only a matter of time before "revolutionaries" at home began to apply the same methods against the US government itself in a completely expected twist of fate. The author's work from half a decade ago about "The Color Revolution Model: An Exposé Of The Core Mechanics" explains these processes at length, while his book from around the same time about "Hybrid Wars: The Indirect Adaptive Approach To Regime Change" explains the phased transition from Color Revolutions (weaponized protests) to Unconventional Wars (terrorism). In short, the terrorist phase begins to emerge after the security services' reaction to violent protests is caught on camera but deceptively decontextualized and misportrayed. The edited footage is then propagated throughout society to escalate the self-sustaining cycle of unrest by delegitimizing the said security services and their government, which further radicalizes the population into passively or actively supporting terrorism.
Strategic Escalations
The kinetic (physical, violent) phase of the decades-long Hybrid War of Terror on America is greatly aided by the "fellow travelers" who completed their "long march through the institutions" of government, specifically the Democrats in charge of local municipalities and various states. Many of them refuse to order the police and National Guard respectively to properly respond to the Color Revolution for two primary reasons. The first is to radicalize the majority of the population that's against this destruction so as to precondition them into expecting a "race war", while the second is to then reinforce the perception of Trump as a "fascist dictator" to the already radicalized "revolutionaries" and their "fellow travelers" once he's forced to take control of the National Guard and/or dispatch the military with the authority to use lethal force at their discretion to quell the unrest. That seemingly inevitable development will lead to the previously described decontextualization of such a response through edited footage that would become more "credible" to many if the "fellow traveling" peaceful protesters voluntarily use themselves as "human shields" to protect the urban terrorists among them, thus sacrificing themselves for "the cause" as "martyrs" whose deaths will be blamed on Trump personally.
Insubordination & Defection
"The long march through the institutions" also seeks to infiltrate the security services even though they're typically the most resilient, but the "sleeper cells" among them and their media allies can attempt to get their "moderate" colleagues to seriously consider refusing to fulfill their professional duty to restore law and order, especially if they're pressured not to "kill their own people" (an oft-abused phrase regularly employed by the US government to delegitimize those foreign governments targeted by its history of Hybrid Wars and which lethally respond to these external provocations in self-defense). "Dog whistles" are already being blown in this respect by former Defense Secretary Mattis and Espers the incumbent one who have both contradicted the President to different degrees regarding his plans to reestablish law and order. This increases the likelihood that the aforesaid "sleeper cells" can deploy other bespoke information warfare narratives against their "fellow" members of the security services such as imploring them to "obey the Constitution and not the fascist dictator who's ordering the illegal use of force against peaceful protesters out of self-interested political desperation to prevent his inevitable toppling by the people". If successful, then the result this devious information warfare operation could be game-changing.
Electoral Context
It's impossible to ignore the fact that the ongoing Hybrid War of Terror on America is occurring in the run-up to the November elections. The Minneapolis "trigger event" (which might be one of many up the seemingly never-ending escalation ladder) wasn't planned but something of the sort might have been had that not happened in order to catalyze the current chaos. The timing is extremely strategic because it's intended to totally destabilize the country ahead of its pivotal vote that might prospectively hand Trump his final term, after which he'd be completely "unchained" without any future electoral considerations whatsoever to pursue his own promised "revolutionary" agenda that threatens to reverse the leftists' "march through the institution" ("draining the swamp"/"fighting the deep state") in as radical of a manner as he'd want. To stop him, they hope to "hack" the election by exploiting this chaos to convince more people to vote Democrat, but as an "insurance policy", they also plan to use mail-in ballots in order to steal the election. Should they fail to do that and he's not overthrown beforehand in a military coup, then they'll likely intensify their Hybrid War on the basis that he supposedly "stole the election" following the narrative that the US itself used against so many targets abroad over the years.
Global Importance
The whole world is watching what happens because of the global importance that the outcome of this conflict will undoubtedly have. It shouldn't be forgotten that it's occurring in the midst of what the author previously described as World War C, which refers to the full-spectrum paradigm-changing processes unfolding as a result of every government's response to the COVID-19 global pandemic that readers can learn more about here, here, and here. In accordance with the precepts of Stephen Mann's "Chaos Theory And Strategic Thought", the initial conditions at the onset of any complex process will disproportionately influence their outcome ("the butterfly effect"), so even Trump's possible victory might only be a Pyrrhic one when it comes to America's global standing in the emerging Multipolar World Order depending on how much damage is done domestically during the course of this conflict. Another point to keep in mind is that he's also the leader of the worldwide nationalist/anti-globalism movement so the onset of the kinetic phase of this Hybrid War sends a strong message to other like-minded leaders that something similar could also happen to them at any time too unless they were more successful than the US was in stopping "the long march through the institutions".
Concluding Thoughts
The ongoing phase of the Hybrid War of Terror on America can be conceptualized as the explosion of a long-ticking time bomb similar in effect to what happened a generation ago in the USSR after US-backed nationalist "revolutionaries" there succeeded in destroying it from within using almost identical means. This observation speaks to the fact that such methods aren't exclusive to any given ideology but vary depending upon the targeted state's unique socio-economic and political characteristics, which could in the future be more easily identified and tracked using the strategic insight obtained by "Big Data" operations such as the one that Cambridge Analytica was notoriously accused of.
Considering that this is a conflict that was decades in the making, it won't be resolved anytime soon, especially since the "revolutionary" side is convinced that "the ends justify the means", which makes the use of terrorism against their "fellow" Americans "acceptable" to them. Although every government in the world officially condemns this method of warfare which doesn't have any ideology, race, religion, nationality, or borders, many of them and their compatriots are more than happy to watch the havoc that this Hybrid War will wreak for purely ideological reasons pertaining to their hatred for the American government (irrespective of whether or not that hatred is justified) even though the majority of victims will likely be innocent people of all "colors".
This
hypocritical position is explained by the fact that those abroad sense
that this conflict is an "historical opportunity" to knock the US "out
of the game" once and for all, and by none other than its own Hybrid War
means that it so eagerly used to employ against almost everyone else in
one way or another. For this self-interested reason, they might even
intensify their information warfare against the US in order to embolden
the "revolutionaries" and "demoralize" the average American that's
against this reign of terror by trying to convince them
that they "deserve" all of this because they pay taxes to "fund the
evil empire" for what it does overseas in their name without their
knowledge or permission. Some of these average Americans will almost
certainly submit, but tens of millions of others probably won't go down
without a fight, even if it's to the death.
Source: http://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=1501#.Xtn-PK3qiQU.facebook
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