Salon, in a long interview article by Chauncey Devega,
offers a long and troubling interview with Malcolm Nance, an African-American
former Naval intelligence officer and author of “The Plot to Destroy America: How
Putin and his Spies are Undermining America and Dismantling the West” (Hachette
Books, 2018).
I looked at a preview of the book, and it calls Vladimir
Putin the first Russian president of the United States, with Donald Trump as
essentially his avatar.
The Russians got mad, indeed, of American sanctions and about
the tanking of their economy in their early days of capitalism.
But Nance describes a global conspiracy, right out of the James
Bond movie world, to control the world for the benefit of the oligarchs and put
most ordinary people into obedient submission.
The interview describes the Russian malware hack in detail (with
Cozy Bear, as does the opening of the book).
But the Russians infiltrated by looking for the most intellectually
weak but gullible segment of the USD population, the less educated white “nationalists”,
to organize. They also knew that “elite” American mainstream liberals didn’t
care personally about these people or about their own underclass. So they wouldn’t
notice if the underclass was persuaded by fake news driven by bots. This was Nietzsche turned upside down.
Nance thinks we are "on the verge of losing the American
constitutional republic forever."
It’s odd, but a lot of intellectual pundits (myself included)
took no responsibility for the relative contextual illiteracy of a lot of their
readers.
It seems as though maybe the Russians even set up “The Apprentice”,
complete with Troy McClain’s leg waxing scene. Why did Trump fall for it?
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