Distorted Reality Fields
If you wonder why the hell no one understands what is going on, the answer is that it's not an accident, and it's been in the works for some time.
For what it’s worth, I wanted to repost something I wrote eight years ago, in House of Trump, House of Putin. The context was that I was writing about one of the fathers of hybrid warfare, Vladislav Surkov, and how he and Putin intended to use it to shore up Putin’s popularity domestically and, ultimately, to use it against the West.
As Deputy Prime Minister to Putin from 2011 to 2013, Surkov served as the Kremlin’s chief ideologue and “gray cardinal” to Putin.
As Soviet-born British author Peter Pomerantsev put it, Surkov, “the puppet master who privatised the Russian political system, is the real genius of the Putin era,” and as such is someone who is essential to understanding how Putin—and now Trump— created a new strain of authoritarianism that was far more subtle and understated than the epic spectacles from the previous century.
As I wrote in House of Trump:
Surkov was the brilliant puppet master who merged theatrical techniques with PR to alter the way reality is perceived in Putin’s Russia. As one of the architects of hybrid warfare on behalf of Putin, he set out to destroy the very idea of reality, to undermine the whole notion of truth in order to create a never-ending conflict about perception that helped the ability of Putin’s regime to control and manage Russia. The result of Surkov’s work was that it completely befuddled the opposition because the ceaseless flood of contradictory stories meant that no one knew what the enemy was up to or even who they really were, or what was going on.
Sound familiar?
How is it possible that America’s intelligence agencies didn’t see this coming?
It's really important to read the rest of this in Unger's book, in order to fully understand how Sukhov accomplished this, and not be fooled by president orange face.
May I add that currently, the head of OMB, co-architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought (recently called to the WH by Trump to discuss further purges in the gov), wants full deregulation of the economy, and women without their freedom to choose. Please read his bio. He's a Wheaton (Christian college) graduate, very smart, an evangelical white nationalist who believes that his god in the one true god and any anyone else is "condemned." Of course he gives no definition of what his "condemned" means....and he wrote this in an article that's online, trying to encourage Wheaton to fire a Wheaton professor who stated that we all pray to the same god. Blasphemous according to Vought.
Bernie Sanders indicated in Senate testimony, Vought is unfit to be in government (I believe that was during Trump admin 1.0). Vought also lies, like the rest of the Trump admin. stating that the bulk of Biden's Infrastructure Project was for DEI, and not infrastructure.
Great Christian values....just as in the days of The Crusades, and the Spanish Inquistion these people have no qualms about lying, killing, and defaming people to achieve their goals. That tells you enough.
Thank Mr. Unger!
What Sarkov and Putin did is a perfect parallel to what the Trump Administration has been trying to do going back years: Dominion voting machines stole the 2020 election, Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs, Ukrainians are the aggressors in their own invasion - these are all fantasy narratives that Trump.and MAGA keep.pushing out to justify their policies. Anyone in their right mind should understand Portland is not "war torn" and we don't need The 82nd Airborne to be flown from Bragg to the West Coast, but this constant push against reality convinces some people nonetheless.