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If You’re Not Awake — This Will Make You Wake the Hell UP!
Vladimir Putin gave a speech on the state of the American future on the night of Donald Trump’s inauguration, January 21, 2017. He told us everything Americans need to know about where we are in March of 2024.
The day after the inauguration of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin congratulated the Kremlin operatives engaged in undermining American democracy with this “Secret Speech:”
Gentlemen, the event yesterday in Washington commands my thanks for the inspired work you have done on behalf of the Federation. Your countrymen owe you their gratitude. Furthermore, succeeding generations of our people will be made aware of your mission. Let me personally assure you of eventual wide acknowledgment. The komitet’s innovation, tireless labor and deep resolve will not for long be hidden from history. Your names will be inscribed as leading actors in the chronicles of this vital moment.
I call it ‘vital’ because what you are engineering is a fundamental rebalancing of the global order. For too long the world has suffered a unipolar power structure. Granted, that structure has been altered significantly by China, but woe upon mankind if the planet is to be governed solely by the mobsters of Washington and the beasts of Beijing. The destiny of Russia may have suffered a detour, but the humiliation of weakness and its corollary, irrelevance, are behind us. The motherland once again travels the path ordained by our history and the genius of our people. You are in the vanguard of that voyage. Again, I congratulate you.
Permit me now to remind you of your ongoing assignment.
The destabilization of American democracy remains an indispensable component of advance for the Russian Federation. The equation is simple. The more untenable, the more embarrassing, the more indefensible democracy is made to appear in the country of its greatest exponent — the very cradle of democracy in the modern age — the more appealing will become its main alternative. The seamless process of governance created within the Russian Federation will increasingly be seen as the inevitable successor to democracy wherever that cumbersome and inefficient system persists.
The greatest enemy of our ambition has long been a document, but the power of the said document is waning. It is losing its luster. Its efficacy has been tested and found severely wanting. The document is the constitution of the United States.
Like all documents this one too, even as it grasps with withering hands titular authority, can be transcended. A piece of paper can be ignored; a law enforced only in ink can be defied and violated. I give you but one of many statistics that foretell the decline within the ranks of the American people of their formerly sacred piece of paper. A recent poll showed that nearly half the members of the Republican Party support removing barriers to the exercise of presidential power. By extension that means half the members of one of two principal centers of political influence in the United States are comfortable with the idea of transcending, ignoring, defying and violating their foundational document.
A document is only as strong as the people who uphold it. Having exposed the Republican Party as one capable of being loyal to a man rather than a set of long-held principles, we now fully understand that Trump is not abnormal within the Republican Party — he portrays it exactly. He did not change the party, he exposed it.
I submit to you, gentlemen, that a current joke in the United States to the effect that the Republican Party has become the Russiapublican Party is less a witticism than a reflection of your galloping success. This komitet can thus find additional agents and support for its work from what might well be the largest fifth column in the history of conflict.
Crucially, you have proved that conflict is no longer about troops and tanks. It is not dependent on industry or money. Modern combat can take place entirely in cyberspace. Words have finally proved mightier than swords. Images have become artillery shells. Only online can we reach into the private spaces of individuals, and thereby diminish a society. Only there can we exploit, first, the advantage of surprise, and thereafter practice, simultaneously, denial and persistence.
Through your efforts in this new field of conflict we have helped orchestrate a breaking of faith in the United States. I return to the issue of the American constitution. The bond between the American people and their piece of paper has frayed. For the second time in a generation the archaic rules of their primal law has allowed the loser of a presidential election to be the winner. At least a hundred million Americans thus regard Trump as illegitimate. This knife in the American body can be thrust and re-thrust to the benefit of our objectives.
The decline of America as a supposed exemplar, and the retreat of America from its international prominence — these developments are being mourned by the American intelligentsia, but their hands are tied. The old ruling class, the mandarins of Washington, the Harvard crybabies, the Soros eunuchs — they are out of power. Still worse for them and their centuries-old ideals, they see their institutions failing before their eyes. Admission of this only intensifies their frustration. They will rage, we already hear the word resist, but they will be pissing against the wind. Gentlemen, you have created a special blight in America, a winter of the soul for liberal democrats. God willing, it could be permanent.
You have succeeded in undermining and circumventing two institutional pillars of America: the Republican party and the electoral system. Going forward, I ask that you now concentrate on assisting the president to emasculate the norms of American political process, to slash and cut at the civility that must underlie a democracy to allow the democracy to function.
Your task is made easier by the prime impulse of Trump. The people of the United States are becoming accustomed to this man looking directly at a duck, then coming out to face the cameras and claiming he has just observed a dolphin — or a donkey. We must keep in mind that every Trump untruth helps spread a virus of vice across the United States. Every falsehood that originates in the temple of the White House represents another blow to American probity, a further defilement of the country’s civic culture, a deeper contamination of its public square.
All this in turn helps bury the idea of American exceptionalism among nations. Accordingly our resources must find means to feed and water his dolphins and donkeys. If there is no agreement on a foundation of facts within any organization, and particularly within an organization as large as the U.S. government, decision-making becomes random, indefinite, enfeebled. With weakened decision-making will come weaker resolve and less engagement in the world.
That is the future you will now midwife for the United States: less engagement with the rest of the world. As Washington shuts doors, or has doors shut in its face, doors will open for Moscow. Particularly in Europe. Primarily in Europe. The continent is after all Russia’s front yard. It should be treated as such. We must never forget that democracy has no historic hold on the imagination of many Europeans. The eastern nations have no traditions of worship for the ballot box. They lived for centuries without parades of political parties, without the bedlam of competing governments-in-waiting. Where democracy precariously holds in the east, it can lose grip before a strong wind. Look at Hungary. Watch Poland. The western nations? Which among them did not sustain centuries of romance with monarchy or empire? Until recently we saw dictatorships in Greece, Spain, Portugal. Nor should we forget the groveling soul of the French, the cheese-eaters who wrapped their conquered arms around the toady Pétain. The British? Those bankrupt dukes and faggots? They have filled their little island with Caribbean sloth and Muslim sorcery — they are spiralling down. The Germans? In their souls they are restless craven sheep, waiting for the return of a potent shepherd. So I say with confidence, the ground of our front yard is well seeded, it awaits us. American withdrawal from the continent will render Europe progressively prone to the embrace of the immortal bear.
My gratitude again for your crucial work. It is my turn now to listen. I am eager to learn of your new initiatives.
Putin is no one’s friend — but to Donald Trump, he is everything — and that’s really creepy.
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From the Report on COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE
Appendix G: Harsh Treatment of LGBT Individuals and Women in the Russian Federation
President Putin has fueled culture wars to draw a distinction between Russian ‘‘traditional values’’ and the purported decadence and corruption of the West. The results have been particularly acute in the state’s treatment of private and domestic life, including of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals and women. A series of anti-LGBT laws introduced at regional levels in Russia in 2003 and 2006 and at the federal level in 2013 essentially prohibit the public mention of homosexuality, including ‘‘promoting non-traditional sexual relationships among minors’’ and drawing a ‘’social equivalence between traditional and non-traditional sexual relationships.’’
Culture wars are Putin’s Specialty
Only the father of lies could use “traditional family values” to kill the heart and soul of America.
Scholar Robert Blitt notes that ‘‘the Russian government, in an effort to restore its lost role as a global superpower, has recruited the Church as a primary instrument for rallying together a dubious assortment of states and religious representatives to support a new international order. This new order is premised on the rejection of universal human rights and the revival of relativism, two principles that serve the Church well.’’ 312 Blitt also notes that the Russian government has linked national security with ‘’spiritual security,’’ and that ‘‘abroad, the government benefits from the [Russian Orthodox Church]’s efforts as a willing partner in reinforcing Russia’s ’spiritual security,’ which in turn boosts the channels available to it for the projection of Russian power abroad.’
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