If The Russians Engineered a Trump Victory

[Eric the Green]

(11-17-2016, 09:51 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Whether most Westerners realize it or not, we are at war with the SCO. At present, the war is at the "phony war" stage. Outside of some proxy conflicts, direct use of deadly force has not yet commenced. However, damaging operations of a different sort have been underway for some time. The latest casualty was the Election of 2016:

http://warontherocks.com/2016/11/trollin...democracy/

"Until recently, Western governments focused on state-to-state negotiations with Putin’s regime largely missed Russian state-to-people social media approaches. Russia’s social media campaigns seek five complementary objectives to strengthen Russia’s position over Western democracies:

• Undermine citizen confidence in democratic governance;
  
• Foment and exacerbate divisive political fractures;
  
• Erode trust between citizens and elected officials and democratic institutions;
  
• Popularize Russian policy agendas within foreign populations;
  
• Create general distrust or confusion over information sources by blurring the lines between fact and fiction
  

"In sum, these influence efforts weaken Russia’s enemies without the use of force. Russian social media propaganda pushes four general themes to advance Moscow’s influence objectives and connect with foreign populations they target."

But Mr. X, it seems to me, that with Trump's election, they are ALREADY on their way to taking over this country. So job #1 is to resist Trump. We have to start where we are. The Russians have won already. The threat from social media today is from the alt-right and libertarian Trumpsters here who dominate it ALREADY with fake news and constant bullshit slogans. Trump is a severe threat to democracy already, and the USA is almost as much an oligarchy as Putin's Russia ALREADY. If we ever get our democracy back HERE, then we can push forward with our own education and propaganda campaigns in social media to undermine the oligarchies over THERE. There's certainly NO use in supporting such misguided and misdirected foreign adventures that Mr. Trump might get us into for no good reason. As long as we are not free (and we're not), we can't bring freedom to others, nor can we defend ourselves against the Russians. Obviously, if a Russian agent has taken over our country, and he HAS, then they have already won, and the only choice we have is to resist and overthrow this coup. It is absurd to ask us to be patriotic and then get behind a Russian agent and con-man bullshit artist who pretends to be the commander in chief of the USA.

Success and recovery in the 30s and 40s here and social movements here in the fifties, sixties and seventies are what set Western Europe free from tyranny and oligarchy and eventually brought down the Berlin Wall, and almost spread democracy all the way through America and through Russia and China too. It was a rising tide that almost liberated Planet Earth. That's the only way to further success in the future, in the 2020s and beyond. We must set the example for others, not be taken over forever by the suppressive and destructive forces that Trump represents and fosters. A war against the SCO gets us nowhere now, for the first and obvious reason that WE are nowhere now. We have lost our country. SO, FIRST we must resist Trump and the GOP tyranny; then in 4 to 6 years we may have a chance to recover our democracy, challenge oligarchies here and abroad, and help foster the rising tide of liberation and recovery of sustainability across the world again without firing a shot.