They’re Playing It Again, Sam. But Not For Old Time’s Sake
Global shunning of all things Russian—vodka, ballet, musicians, artists, regardless of connection to the war, led by media’s canonization of Volodymyr Zelensky, the demonization of Vladimir Putin, and economic war agains Russia.
America’s ruling class has become an arms dealership, financing both sides of the Russo-Ukraine war.
But not handicapping media malwording, and the “othering” of anyone or anything Russian… and those opposing discrimination against people based on their ethnicity.
RUSSIAN WPM’s have exploded over the last week. RUSSIAN (1,166.14 WPM; +177% 5D; +1834% 30D) and RUSSIANS (96.68 WPM; +232% 5D; +2053% 30D) are everywhere, showing up at least 25 times a day in the news.
You’re Either With Us Or With Putin
Terms this inescapable are prime targets for media malwording, which we saw in a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Friday showing 80% of respondents identifying Russia as “unfriendly” or Russia as the “enemy.” The article also points out that anyone not in lockstep or even neutral on this issue is, along with people of Russian ethnicity finding themselves “othered” and “enfringed” in society at large.
Top colocated terms, or colos, lean towards but do not yet align with this conclusion:
BANKS, INVASION, FORCES, OLIGARCHS, TROOPS, ATTACK, OIL, SOLDIERS, THREAT, SANCTIONS, AGGRESSION, ECONOMY, FAVORED, WEALTHY, FINANCIAL, PROMINENT, RICH, POWERFUL, ETHNIC, WIN, FIGHT, KILLED
What Happened Last Time They Started
Last time the Unites States sought to destroy an economy of this size was 1941, when it cut off Japan from imports of oil and steel, in response to its aggression in China.
That led to the decision by the Japanese government to seize oil fields in Indonesia, and secure supply lines to Japan. This was to be done by a powerful shock-and-awe blow disabling American and British Pacific fleets, bringing both countries to the table for a diplomatic solution, avoiding a protracted war that Japan knew it was not capable of fighting.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a strategic disaster, resulting in a declaration of war against Japan and Germany, in the loss of millions of lives and in the advent of the nuclear age.
And Pearl Harbor was used by powerful interest groups and the media to whip up anti-Japanese hysteria for the “othering” of Japanese-Americans and anyone who did not toe the government-media line.
This ultimately led to the largest ever government-ordered mass incarceration of American citizens, indefinitely and without due process.
Shock-And-Awe Out Your Window
As powerful globalist interest groups continue to play the Ukrainians with promises of “support”, people should give thought to the shoe that hasn’t dropped.
If Putin needs to strike a shock-and-awe blow to bring the West to the table to negotiate a diplomatic solution to avoid a war that he knows Russia does not have the resources to fight, will he leverage an aging nuclear arsenal that launches from Russia with the push of many buttons, or a state-or-the-art cyber arsenal embedded in US and Western criticial infrastructure—electric, water, gas, transportation, distribution, healthcare, and communications— that he can detonate with a few clicks of a mouse?
A shock-and-awe display of force from a cyber superpower will cost everyone— not just lifestyles, but life savings, life investments, livelihoods, and lives in every town in America, and can easily precipitate in massive civil and global conflict.
Next Steps?
What can we do about it? Ultimately every politician supporting this insanity must be defeated in November, and the Administrative State defunded.
But that may be too late. We may not have a country, or a world by then.
What can we do about it now? Send the truckers out on strike. Now.
Harvey Oxenhorn is a cybersecurity consultant, and author of the upcoming book, The Atrocity Algorithm: How the Media Became the Enemy of the People. Follow him on Gettr, Gab, and MeWe @HarveyOxenhorn