Vladimir Putin Is Gunning for Americans
Sure, we Russians are paying Taliban fighters to kill Americans in Afghanistan, but that’s small potatoes. We’re doing the bigger stuff on two fronts.
First and most immediate is we’re taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic. We’re exaggerating what nature is already doing with COVID-19. We’re convincing Americans that not wearing masks and ignoring social distancing are patriotic acts.
Of course, we have the useful idiot Trump in our pockets. We have such deep dirt on him that he’ll do whatever we tell him. He can’t risk defying us because we can destroy him.
With Trump’s help, we have Americans thinking that masks and distancing deny their cherished liberties. As a projection of their future, many American say, OK, I’m dead but I died free. Actually, we’re astonished at how gullible Americans are and how easy it is to manipulate them. It’s as if they’ve lost the ability to think for themselves.
Second and in the longer term past and future, we have corrupted and will continue to corrupt presidential elections. Basically, we do it in two ways.
To start, we use social media and other means to get into Americans’ heads. We twist their thinking to divide them into opposing factions. It’s the opposite of unification. It’s divide and conquer. We get them fighting each other. It’s an insidious way to destroy a society. And again, it’s amazing how easily Americans fall for it.
Next, we attack the electoral system itself. That’s a bit harder because the systems vary from state to state, and in each state the elections are managed at the county level. That would seem to make corrupting the overall system hard because there are so many sub-systems. But since so many, if not all, depend on electronics for gathering and tabulating, the systems are highly vulnerable. We can literally change the numbers.
Much of the American electorate and the mechanics of presidential elections are in our hands. We in Russia will determine the outcome in 2020 as we did in 2016. We didn’t want Hillary, we wanted Trump, and everybody knows what happened. Since our 2016 achievement, we’ve gotten much better at it.
