{"id":42843,"date":"2020-12-21T09:40:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T13:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=42843"},"modified":"2020-12-21T09:40:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T13:40:47","slug":"cold-war-2-0-restarted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=42843","title":{"rendered":"COLD WAR 2.0 Restarted"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Soviet Union-Putin-Russia<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42844\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/vladimir-putin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/vladimir-putin.jpg 400w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/vladimir-putin-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>by Jack Suss aka <a href=\"http:\/\/WymanWicket.com\/buy\">WymanWicket.com\/buy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a child I recall hearing about the Communist Revolution of 1917. I remember seeing pictures in my \u201chistory\u201d book of armed Bolsheviks running willy-nilly in the streets. Names such as <em>Marx<\/em> and <em>Lenin<\/em> and <em>Stalin<\/em> were mentioned as being terrible atheists who hated Christianity and persecuted the Orthodox Russian people. On our home turf, Sen. Joe McCarthy was depicted as a kind of scary &#8220;Grand Inquisitor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I next remember the name \u201cKhrushchev,\u201d a seeming madman banging his shoe on a podium at the U.N. and crying out, \u201cI will bury you\u201d (in Russian of course). And he seemed strangely out of place, even wacko, when mirrored against Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>When I was 13-years old I remember filling out an application for a job in a bowling alley. One question asked, \u201cAre you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?\u201d I had to ask my father about that one and he just sort of chuckled. Scratching my head, I, of course, checked \u201cNo.\u201d I also remember hearing about the Soviets&#8217; stupid propaganda newspapers, <em>Pravda<\/em> and <em>Izvestia<\/em>, and I wondered how the Soviet people could be so na\u00efve as to believe what those rags touted.<\/p>\n<p>In high school, Mick Jagger sang, \u201cI killed the Tsar and his ministers\u2026Anastasia screamed in vain\u2026\u201d Though I didn\u2019t \u201cget it\u201d then, the subliminal message by the late \u201860s was \u201crevolution is cool.\u201d I was marching in protest demonstrations then.<\/p>\n<p>From high school and beyond, a rogues gallery of names came and went: mostly it was Brezhnev, then a ghostly face known as \u201cKosygin,\u201d followed by a string of short-lived leaders\u2014Andropov, Chernenko, Gromyko, Ustinov\u2026 They all seemed like knock-offs of the cartoon character \u201cBoris Badenov.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These doddering dinosaurs were followed eventually by a drunken clown named Boris Yeltsin who was preceded by a sly fox named Gorbachev. As the Berlin wall was coming down, I was training to be a JAGC officer. From thence onward, my life was mostly a tapestry of organized confusion.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until I was 60-years old that I started to get a handle on what it all meant and where it was all going. When the \u201cwalls came tumbling down,\u201d it seemed that we had won WWIII, the Great Economic\/Propaganda War. Yet what seemed like a victory was really a \u201cdefrosted cold war\u201d; an intensification of our already infiltrated government, education, corporate, industry, social, and religious institutions. Communism, which seemed so backward, so anachronistic, came flowing <em>outward<\/em> in the form of \u201ccultural Marxism.\u201d In short-order it was becoming evident that We had <em>become<\/em> the enemy; <em>we<\/em> had become <em>them<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Putin. Once an intrepid agent in the dreaded KGB, Vladimir Putin became the face of the new \u201cRussia\u201d\u2014reborn anew from the chaos of its Soviet holocaust era; from 70+ years of radical leftist thuggery imposed upon a valiant and rugged populace who had somehow survived insane depredations\u2014the endless, Satanic nightmare of total distrust, 24\/7 surveillance, brutal intimidation, suppression, oppression, death, or a <em>spiritual<\/em> death sentence of being whisked away to Siberian Gulag work camps and without a safe harbor of a priest class that might have brought some degree of comfort.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed that Mr. Putin got good press in the USA (as had Gorbachev before him). He has generally been depicted in the press as athletic, as an outdoorsman, as being circumspect and sensible, yet decisive. His countenance is not particularly frightening and is, in fact, actually somewhat reassuring<\/p>\n<p>There was even a sort of \u201crebirthing of Anastasia\u201d as a Siberian forest mystic. (See, Megre, V. (2005). Anastasia. (The Ringing Cedars Series, Eight vols., Sharashkin, L., Ed.; Woodsworth, J. Trans.) Columbia, Missouri: Ringing Cedars Press). \u00a0This book series caught the imagination of many, me included. The author of this series was an ardent Putin supporter. Was this real or a psy-op?<\/p>\n<p>Probably the most strikingly civilized aspect of the man was his seeming Christian faith, as he poured himself into resurrecting the Orthodox Church across the newly minted version of old Russia. There are many scenes of Mr. Putin posing with the Russian religious, even Jewish leaders.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a dilemma, and here\u2019s the crux of it: a nation that has perfected the art of deception, deconstruction, dissembly, dissociation, media manipulation and propagandistic mind control, psychological disruption and derangement, infiltration and subterfuge, institutionalized evil, amorality, just plain godlessness, lying, cheating, stealing and murdering\u2014how can that nation have any credibility left?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but there is a qualifier: those horrors just listed above are not confined to the Soviet Union; they are endemic to any despotic government apparatus. And despite the nomenclature\u2014monarchy, democracy, or republic\u2014the responsible evil entity can be described as the Deep State, embedded within, borne of secret sects and societies, Illuminati agents. They exist in every nation and are responsible for the existence and perpetuation of all supra-national, globalist institutions.<\/p>\n<p>But getting back to Putin\u2026 One thing we know for sure: he ain&#8217;t fat!<\/p>\n<p>I recall reading an article in which Putin\u2019s ex-wife claims that her ex-husband\u2019s current manifestation is <u>not<\/u> the man to whom she was once married. This is not simply to say, \u201cHe\u2019s changed.\u201d She means that he has been cloned or some such thing\u2014meaning, the person we see as Putin is actually a \u201cbio-android replicant.\u201d \u00e7 they\u2019re everywhere, beware! They can be detected by examining the ears, the jaw line, or the eyes (that shift back and forth from human to reptilian). The stuff of fantasy sci-fi? Who knows what is possible in today\u2019s techno-world? OK. So noted.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s aggravating and perplexing about the Russian leader is that he was once an apparatchik of the radical Soviet leftist thuggery state. Is he now in \u201credeemed form\u201d? How can we know for sure? Can we ever trust such a fellow? Americans want to extend <em>trust<\/em> to those who appear to be sincere. Wasn\u2019t it President Reagan who made the phrase \u201ctrust, but verify\u201d a sort of slogan? (Actually, it seems the phrase was originally a Russian one, which adds to our confounded condition!)<\/p>\n<p>With all the recent \u201c<em>muh Russia<\/em>\u201d hysteria by our own radical, lying leftist public figures\u2014who even still try tagging Pres. Trump as a \u201cRussian agent\u201d\u2014the waters of Russo-American relations have been hopelessly muddied. What we have been led to believe is that present-day Russia is not the former Soviet Union of Socialist Republics.<\/p>\n<p>I have an old friend, half Russian, half Irish-English. He can even understand and speak Russian and he doesn&#8217;t trust Putin. He believes that Putin is only, in reality, a figurehead; that it is the <u>Russian mafia<\/u> who really run today&#8217;s Russia. That could be, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>I, for one, would like to believe that President Putin is on-the-level; that he\u2019s a good guy. At the same time, the <em>American<\/em> in me knows that Russians haven\u2019t exactly evolved from a long line of liberty-lovers. Their history shows the exact opposite: strong, often despotic leaders, have in fact almost always been in power there and her people, though tough and resilient, are essentially lemmings when it comes to their government (or is this something I was \u201cmis-taught\u201d?).<\/p>\n<p>We are always hearing something off-color about Russia across the spectrum of \u201cthe news.\u201d Therefore, unless you are a real insider, it is probably too difficult to know one way or the other \u00e7 and even if you <em>are<\/em> an \u201cinsider,\u201d that old paranoia surfaces again to make even so-called &#8220;experts&#8221; suspect.<\/p>\n<p>So, now that World War IV is underway\u2014the new, improved cyber-variety\u2014we better leave it all alone, stick with America\u2019s rugged individualists, and <strong>fight for Trump<\/strong>. <em>Basta!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Soviet Union-Putin-Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}