Russian Hysteria

Guest Post by Southern Sage

Allow me to make a few comments before I continue into the body of this article.  I noticed a couple of readers responded to my article on John Brennan by scoffing at the theory (and it is, of course, just a theory, but a plausible one) I put forth to explain his increasingly deranged public behavior, behavior utterly unknown in any previous CIA Director.  One uninformed reader brought up the old Joseph McCarthy bugbear, smirking at the idea of Communists or Red sympathizers in our government.

As Admin has commented, this is not a kumbaya session and TBP’ers will say whatever they want, which is fine with me.  When they make idiotic comments based in ignorance, however, I will answer them.

Without going into too much detail, let me give you a bit of background.  I served for almost 30 years in the CIA, virtually all of it overseas.  I was usually in senior management posts.   Don’t bother hurling insults at me for that; I am proud to have served in the Agency and never did a single thing I could not explain and justify to the American people.   As for criticism of the Agency, I bow to nobody in my disgust and anger at certain aspects of our operations and leadership, but I still did my job as best I could.  I am also a former military officer.  I have a master’s degree in Political Science from a respected university.  Since my retirement I have worked in private industry with great success.  I know what it means to make a payroll and, let me add, deal with far tougher stuff.  I lived for two years in a Communist shithole, so I understand that criminal cult.  I travel frequently all over the world.

I have no real hobbies except reading.  Other than reading, I work.  Needless to say, in view of my background and career, my reading is mainly history, international affairs, politics, with an emphasis on military history and the history of the Communist movement in all of its manifestations.  I have so many damn books that my wife has threatened to throw me out of the house.   A word to anybody who cares to tangle with me on the facts when I present them in these areas:  Don’t.  I do not suffer fools gladly and I will expose you for the know nothing you are.  I am a professional in these areas, you are probably not.

I have no time for beer-bellied gasbags with a high opinion of their own intellect, sitting in front of their computers in their skid-marked shorts tut-tutting at me.  I don’t brag or address issues I am not familiar with.  You won’t ever see me commenting on complex economic or financial matters, healthcare, or the North Dakota state government.  If I say something it is because I know what I am talking about.   Let me add that during my career I was absolutely appalled at the general level of ignorance of these key areas of study among my own fellow officers.  I can’t say it made me popular when I told them they were full of shit but I didn’t care then and do not care now.   I am not a “credentialist” and it irritates to no end to have to list my life achievements and explain, word by word, why I know what I know.

As for Brennan, I have no idea if he is under hostile control, though I would not be one bit surprised if he was.  That said, his manic and bizarre antics are hard to explain in any other way.   His behavior is so different from all, repeat all, other former CIA directors that there has to be an explanation.  CIA directors are sophisticated, well-informed (duh!), politically-aware men.  Many of them hold strong opinions and they are not afraid to voice them, but in a professional, balanced way.  What Brennan has done is several degrees of magnitude beyond anything seen before.  He is placing himself in serious personal danger.  Trump is no fool and he is vindictive as hell.  He knows that Brennan is up to his neck in the Deep State coup attempt and fully intends to make him pay.  Brennan knows that he either comes out on the winning side or he will die in a Federal prison.  He did not take this risk on a personal whim, of that I am sure.

To illustrate my point, let’s compare Brennan to Mike Morell, like Brennan a career analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence, and, like Brennan, a man who rose in the Agency mainly because he was involved in preparing and presenting the Presidential Daily Brief; in his case it was George Bush rather than Clinton.  Morell is no Trump supporter and has said he does not believe he is qualified to be president (our Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, did not leave such decisions up to anybody but the American people).  He claims to be apolitical or at least neither a Republican or a Democrat.  I don’t believe it.  He is a liberal Democrat in my book, but he is, unlike Brennan, a professional.  Morell served twice as Acting DCIA.  Compare his public behavior to that of Brennan.  Believe me, there is something wrong with Brennan.  He is a raving lunatic or he is under some kind of outside compulsion to act as he does.  I have recruited and run many, many agents.  I know how it is done.  Brennan is not right, OK?

Let me address the skepticism about the possibility that the Russkies have Brennan by the balls (they surely have nothing on Trump).

The Soviets and later the Russians regularly recruited CIA officers, U.S. military officers, State Department officials, FBI agents, members of Congress and congressional staffs, as well as literally thousands of others around the world and in the United States.  Leaving aside the known cases, such as Aldrich Ames, a significant number of CIA officers and other U.S. government employees in sensitive positions have been forced out without prosecution; espionage is notoriously difficult to prove in court.  If Brennan had been recruited by the Russians it would be disturbing but hardly an earth-shaking event.  Angleton may have been a paranoid nut, but he was not entirely wrong.  Don’t forget that he fell into his paranoid phase after one of his best friends, Kim Philby, one of the most senior British intelligence officials, was revealed to be a Soviet spy and secret Communist.  It is interesting that it was Bill Harvey, a hard-boiled ex-cop and FBI agent turned CIA officer who immediately sniffed out the rat that Philby was.  Angleton was completely fooled.

As for doubting that he is or was a Communist or fellow traveler (as the Communists themselves referred to the dupes who sympathized with them), why the doubt?  A CIA Director crazy enough to admit in public that he voted for Gus Hall, the CPUSA presidential candidate in 1976, is surely crazy enough to actually be a Red, don’t you think?

As for so-called “McCarthyism”, I am afraid the reader who mentioned that needs to flush out his headgear and do a little reading.  Recent scholarship on the alleged misdeed of McCarthy and the terrible persecution supposedly suffered by his victims (and others of the period) has shown that not only was McCarthy absolutely spot on with his accusations, he underestimated Soviet penetration of the U.S. government to an astonishing degree.  Of course, at the time he did not have access to the facts, but others did.

Sorry to burst your bubble, whoever made a fool of himself by mentioning McCarthyism, but Joe McCarthy was an ordinary, patriotic American who stumbled on a vast net of Communist subversion and tried to do something about.  True, he was at times crude and made some understandable errors of fact.  He also played hardball.  That does not change the fact that hundreds of U.S. government employees and others in senior positions deserved to hang for their crimes against out country.  It is pity only the Rosenberg’s got the hot seat.

I will not belabor this point but I will tell you to get thee to Amazon and read up on the Venona papers and Blacklisted by History, the best biography of McCarthy.  After that, if you still want to lose an argument with me, be my guest.

On to Moscow!

The United States is currently one of its increasingly frequent moments of mass hysteria manufactured by the media and other interested parties.  The object of this latest burst of nuttiness is Russia.

Listening to the mainstream media, most of our politicians, “pundits” of all stripes, Maxine Waters and – I must assume – Miley Cyrus, we are on the verge of total annihilation or at least endless slavery.  In 2016 we narrowly missed having a Russian-designed Vulcan mind meld forced upon our helpless citizens.  Indeed, it was successful enough that an orange-faced, wild-haired, pussy-grabbing real estate developer from Queens was foisted upon a disbelieving and powerless nation as president.  Yea verily, he squats now in the Lincoln bedroom, surrounded by Big Mac wrappers and no doubt grabbing random pussy as it flounces by.

The merciless Mongol behind the evil plot is one Vlad Putin, sometime KGB officer and now Poisoner-in-Chief of the reborn empire of the Czar!

As we sit there today the Russian hordes await only the order to pour over the entire world in a flood.  The poor, doomed peoples of Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia (Stalin Georgia, not goober peas Georgia).  Next come Western Europe and, of course, Ohio.

And what fate awaits the pathetic good folk of USA!, USA!, USA!  Why, first the Russkies will rape everyone between 8 and 80, make ugly faces at queers and transgenders, turn Detroit into a ghastly post-industrial wasteland populated by drug addicts and muggers, and then -what else? – they will haul off our precious bodily fluids back to their grim, gloomy homeland.  We are powerless to stop this, our $800 billion “defense” budget being mainly spent on diversity training, breast-feeding lessons for the 82^nd Airborne, and protein bars.  These damn Russians are so sneaky, so devoid of decency, so violent, so crazed, that they have dared to put their country right smack dab in the middle of our overseas military bases!  Words fail me.  We will show those Red bastards!

Now, on a more serious note, Russia is a big country and the only one that can (for the moment) turn us into an ashtray in about 20 minutes.   These facts argue for it to be taken seriously.  As far as military affairs are concerned, Russia is a potential threat.  This being the case it is common sense for our own military to keep a close eye on its capabilities, weapons systems, and, if possible, intentions.  Other places which bear similar watching are China, India, Pakistan, Iran, and Israel, this last not because they are likely to directly attack us (again) but because they may try to involve us in their tribal wars.

Russia in 2018 is not, not, not the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.  That monster died decades ago.  Out of that crack up came new states and old ones.  Russia was, of course, the core of the old USSR, but Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, the ‘Stans in Central Asia and the Baltic States all broke away and are now independent.  The Communist system collapsed in ignominious fashion.  How pitiful that a regime that had seen fit to murder tens of millions could not, at the moment of truth, muster a platoon in its defense.

The end of the USSR was not pretty.  It was chaotic and it ruined lives.  Whole industries which had been propped up by an irrational economic system, simply imploded.  The armed forces of the old USSR virtually disintegrated.  It was so bad that the U.S. government had to send in emergency aid to ensure that the Soviet nuclear stockpile, at least, was still under armed guard.

Say what you will of the Russians, they are a proud people and whatever they thought of the Soviet government, its collapse thrust them into poverty, humiliation and wounded pride comparable to what happened in the American South after the Civil war or Nazi Germany after 1945.

Oh, but that was not the worst.  As the great beast fell to the ground the vultures were not slow in coming and a great many were Americans wishing to pick the bones of the dead country.  They were gleefully joined by so-called “Russians”, each of them with an Israeli passport in his pocket.  They set about stripping the corpse and what a job they made of it!  Read Professor Stephen Cohen’s books if you want to know just what a disgusting role the United States played in robbing a defenseless former enemy.

Yes, indeed.  We had great plans.  After stealing everything movable that survived the USSR (metal stockpiles, oil and natural gas stocks, timber, you name it) we went for the big play, total control of the Russian economy and all of its natural resources.   Russia (and the other components of the former USSR) would be booty for our finance capitalists, to hell with the Russian people.  And millions did go to hell, or some such place, as the death rate in Russia skyrocketed due to poverty, disappearing medical services, alcoholism and despair.  Russian women were seen as whores to be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

The political and financial leaders of the United States, in their boundless ignorance and lack of compassion, understanding or even plain self-interest, saw to it that Russia drank its ruin to the dregs.   They should have known it could not last.  A great nation does not allow itself to be destroyed.  It will fight back, a point the leftists and Democrats trying to “fundamentally transform” our own country would be well to remember.

Putin, a relatively junior First Chief Directorate (foreign intelligence) officer of the KGB, resigned and went to work for the municipal government of St. Petersburg, his home town.  The rest is history.

In a remarkably short time Putin managed to stop the rot and begin the rebirth of his country, Russia.  I will not go into the details of his amazing success, but he has once again given the Russian people hope, the chance for a decent life, and a position of respect in much of the world, the U.S. and Western Europe largely excepted.  Russia is once again a power to be reckoned with, though its economy is about the size of Italy’s and its military can hardly compare to ours.

Putin moved against the so-called “oligarch’s, a mainly Jewish gang of ex-Communists who were in the forefront of looting the country.  Those he did not chase off to London (where you can see their greasy mugs swilling in the best restaurants, hookers on each arm) he placed under firm control.  He reorganized the economy for Russia’s benefit, not ours.  Meddling?  The United States and various European countries sent in armies of international do-gooders and busy bodies to undermine the Russian government and, among other things, promote the homosexual agenda and corrupt Russian youth.  Loudmouth journalists, the Russian equivalents of Bill Maher, Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper, Trevor Noah and similar troublemakers (“pro-democracy” activists, all of them) were put on a leash.  Most surprisingly for me, and effectively for Putin, he restored the Russian Orthodox Church to its former importance and influence, a very Russian thing to do.  Is Putin a real Christian?  I don’t know.  Go ask him.  If it is merely a cynical ploy it has worked.  I might add that I admire the Russian Orthodox Church.  It is one of the few Christian churches that has rejected the filth and garbage of the modern world and remains focused on its real job, saving souls.  There are no faggot priests in it, I can tell you that.  Orthodox priests marry.

Putin shrewdly decided to focus on quality rather than quantity in his rebuilding of the Russian military.  If news reports are accurate (and I sure as hell hope they are not) the Russians have developed new generations of weapons against which we have no real defense.  China has done exactly the same thing.

There is no reason at all to believe that Russia has any intention of actually using those weapons against us in some new Pearl Harbor.  That being the case, Putin has made it crystal clear that he will not allow Russia to be pushed around.  Where is his redline?  Who knows?  I don’t want to find out.

The sight of a rejuvenated Russia, proud, controlling its own economy, conducting its won foreign policy in what it believes to be its own interests, throwing pedophiles and other perverts in jail, running foreign subversives out of the place, arresting or exiling Jewish gangsters, well, all of this is just too much for the globalists and the Neo-Con’s to take.

Then comes Trump!  Who woulda thunk it?  I seriously doubt if a single senior Russian ever imagined that Trump would emerge as a presidential candidate.  Did you?

This man, seen by the self-proclaimed elites of the U.S. and Europe as a turd in their punchbowl, is by any measure the most extraordinary person ever to occupy the White House.

Trump is not a Russian agent, he has not been blackmailed, he is not selling out the U.S., his interest in improving ties with Russia has nothing to do with his personal business empire, he did not have two Russian whores do pee-pee on Obama’s mattress.   Any person who claims to believe any of these things should be immediately marked down as either a fool, a Jew with an irrational ancestral hatred of Russia, a globalist, a Neo-Con, a leftist angry that Putin and Trump are both standing up for traditional culture (though neither are saints themselves), or somebody who either lost out on the Great Russia Piñata of the early 1990’s or fears that Russia will in some way hit them in the pocketbook, directly or indirectly.

There are several interest groups desperate to stop the building of a rational, normal, civilized relationship between the United States and Russia.  They include:

–The so-called “military-industrial complex”.  Many of its members are still stuck in a fly blown Cold War mentality and sincerely believe the nonsense they spout about Russia being a direct threat to the U.S.  Others are happy to humor the saps but their real goal is to keep the “defense” gravy train going.  Included are the blabbermouths from hundreds of think tanks and Beltway Bandits who enjoy a cushy lifestyle.  Many of them would be assistant managers in KFC if they did not have the Russian boogeyman.  Our country needs a strong defense and we must take seriously all potential and likely enemies.  Unfortunately, the defense circus of today has little to do with defending us.

–A certain part of the Jewish community.  Believe it or not, there are quite a few Jews who have a visceral hatred of Russia, caused by the oppression their ancestors claim to have suffered at the hands of the Czarist government.  Now, I get this.  Under the Czar Russian cops would greet each other with the catchy slogan, “Long live the Czar and beat the Jews!”  It is not hard to imagine that Jews in general felt unloved.  After the first couple of decades of the Bolshevik Revolution, the Russians began to return to type.  Jews lost much of the influence they had in the early years of the revolution, though they always, to the very end of the USSR, were in a favored position in comparison with ordinary Russians.  The wave of Jewish Russian “refugees” who came to the U.S. and Israel in the 1970’s and 1980’s were the smart ones who knew that the monstrous regime they did so much to create was about to go under and payback from ordinary Russians was likely to be a bitch.  They did the usual Hebrew thing and packed their suitcases.

–Trotskyites and Neo-Trotskyites, also known as Neo-Con’s.  This mostly secular Jewish gang is descended from the faction that followed Leon Trotsky and embraced his vision of a world revolution right now, rather than Joseph Stalin’s more cautious Socialism in One Country path, which correctly recognized that the USSR had to be turned into a powerful state before it could go openly mucking about beyond its borders.  Stalin emphasized his stance by having a Spanish Communist drive an ice hammer into Trotsky’s brain.  These folks have always resented being pushed aside in favor of what would eventually become a largely Russian and Ukrainian Soviet ruling class.

–Stupid people.  Americans are notorious for their lack of interest in the outside world, their poor reading habits, and their apparent inability to understand that the mainstream media is nothing but a collection of shallow, semi-educated, brain-washed nebbishes, employed by a handful of largely Zionist Jewish mega-billionaires.  Like parrots they repeat what they are told to repeat, over and over again.  The average American has no idea who Putin really is, they know nothing about Russia, couldn’t find Crimea if you shoved up their butts, but they are all too ready to waste our soldier’s lives and their treasure to ensure that Khrushchev’s whimsical decision to transfer it to Ukraine from Russia will be upheld.

–Democrats and leftists.  Most Congressional Democrats care no more about Russia than they do about Frau Merkel’s hemorrhoids.   It is merely a handy stick to make these unpatriotic, unprincipled, witless bastards look like they have some tattered shreds of patriotism left.  I am particularly amused to see some inner-city clown babbling on about Putin, Trump and Russia and how awful it all is.  I am sure Chuck Schumer keeps busy running around and giving them their talking points.  As for the leftists, they are genuinely enraged at both Trump and Putin.  Both men have cried out a great “Halt!” to the left’s schemes in the cultural area.  Putting poofters in their place and restoring Christianity are two big no-no’s for the left.

–Globalists.  Now we get to the rub.  Since the early years of the 20^th century, if not earlier, there has been a movement to create “One World”.  The creation of the Federal Reserve was a major step in this; foreign bankers were essentially given control of our money.  The movement went by many names, adopted many tactics, covered its tracks and lied about its real objectives.  Many kindly, well-meaning people were suckered into the globalist plot.  John Lennon’s Imagine says it all about these folks.  Needless to say, globalism is not about peace and love.  It is about power, money and control.  The Wizards of Oz behind the globalist curtain want it all and they intend to get it.  Putin, Trump, and the Chinese, not necessarily in that order, are spitting in the globalist soup.  All three believe in strong, sovereign national states – their own.  Don’t be fooled by Trump’s sometimes crude delivery of his lines and his bull-in-a-china shop style.  Trump knows the score and so does Putin.  He is not about to allow his country, our country, to be turned into a dumping ground for every low IQ, primitive, hostile outlander on the planet.  Ain’t gonna happen.  The globalists want all of us – except them – to be quiet wage slaves living in a world designed by and for them, whether we like it or not.  No country, no history, no traditions and, most of all, no self-aware pride among whites in Europe and the United States.   They understand perfectly well that the only people capable of putting the kibosh on their plans are those very people.  Thus their fury at Trump’s efforts to slow the flood of foreign paupers into the U.S. and his success in opening the eyes of the American people to what is happening.

This subject could easily fill many books but as I have a real job and limited time I will end it here.  If you think my analysis of things is wrong, that is OK with me.  Read Stephen Cohen on Russia and you will be ahead of the game.

I do not think Russia is a “friend” in any real sense and I fully support taking adequate measures, economic, military, and diplomatic, to ensure that Russia does not trample on our true interests.  Russia is Russia.  Russia. Under Putin or somebody else, will always see to its own business and seek to secure its own interests.  That is the way of the world.  It is not, however, cause for a wild-eyed crusade against Russia that may well end in disaster for us all.