Lew Rockwell remembers the subtle procedures of the East German STASI in the late 1970s.
"The goal was to destroy dissidents and potential dissidents socially and emotionally without resorting to arrest and imprisonment. The Stasi collected information about the victim’s private life, and proceeded to ‘disintegrate’ their careers and their family and private life.
"Damaging lies (or truths) would be conveyed to employers until the target was rendered unemployable. Relationships with spouses and kids would be poisoned with gossip by operatives, professional failure, and financial stress. Friends would be warned away through the grapevine.
"The goal was to destroy the reputation of the target and make him so preoccupied with his personal difficulties and emotional turmoil that he had no will to question the government of the DDR. It was done covertly, and often victims weren’t believed even if they discovered [the covert campaign].”
-- Lew Rockwell, Jr.
Zelenskyy can insult the President to his face in the Oval Office, and all Trump does is keep inviting him back. Relying on false intel about Russian casualties, the Russian economy, and the Russian polity, Trump keeps trying self-defeating, self-sabotaging escalatory tactics with Russia, playing Russian roulette but mistaking it for American poker.
Trump threatens 500% sanctions on Russian-oil purchasing nations today, threatens long-range missiles into Moscow that Russia could think are nuclear-armed, and sends arms to Ukraine laundered through NATO. All this does is enrage the Russian populace and get us closer to triggering a world war between two nuclear powers. As a Russian once advised me: “we’d rather eat dirt than surrender.” Russian history proves it, whether in dealing with the Mongols, Napoleon or the Nazis. Just revisit the history of how the people of St. Petersburg held out during what they called The Great War.
At the same time, Russia holds escalatory dominance...
Satanic social engineers have tried to starve the world of spirituality for 400 years (since the satanic “Enlightenment”) in order to turn us all into skeptical materialists, constantly analyzing ourselves, worrying, and diagnosing ourselves so that we lose sight completely of the Kingdom of Heaven and the job we have as servants. They want us to either abandon faith, or cling to the empty shell of “religion” instead of serving the Living God with fear and trembling. That way, once they reveal their parlor tricks, we’re supposed to be blown away by the acknowledgment that something more is out there.
Fear creates an altered state of consciousness, and that’s a key to Satan’s...game. Psychedelic drugs, brain chips, subsonic frequencies, DNA modification, hoaxes, cult rituals, everything to make us abandon a calm, rational, biblical worldview. It is a Christian’s duty to be unimpressed with this world, no matter how insane it gets.
-- Terry Wolfe