Pentagon Wants To Return Special Ops Propagandists To Ukraine by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-02-12 at 01:45:02 )

Pentagon Wants To Return Special Ops Propagandists To Ukraine by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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An article by The Washington Post titled "Pentagon looks to restart top-secret programs in Ukraine" contains some interesting information about what United States special ops forces were doing in Ukraine in the lead-up to the Russian invasion last year, and what they are slated to be doing there in the future.

"The Pentagon is urging the United States Congress to resume funding a pair of top-secret programs in Ukraine suspended ahead of Russias invasion last year, according to current and former United States officials," writes the Posts Wesley Morgan. "If approved, the move would allow American Special Operations troops to employ Ukrainian operatives to observe Russian military movements and counter disinformation."

Much further down in the article we learn the specifics of what those two top-secret programs were. One of them entailed United States commandos sending Ukrainian operatives "on surreptitious reconnaissance missions in Ukraines east" to collect intelligence on Russia. The other entailed secretly administering online propaganda, though of course The Washington Post does not describe it as such.

"We had people taking apart Russian propaganda and telling the true story on blogs," WaPo was told by a source described as "a person in the Special Operations community."

Social media warfare. United States Special Operations: "Before the invasion, United States Special Operations troops were running two irregular warfare surrogate programs in Ukraine. In one, "We had people taking apart Russian propaganda and telling the true story on blogs."-Ivan Katchanovski (I-Katchanovski) February 11, 2023

United States special ops forces "employing Ukrainian operatives" to "take apart Russian propaganda" and "tell the true story on blogs" is just United States special ops forces administering United States propaganda online.

Whether or not they actually see themselves as "telling the true story" or "taking apart Russian propaganda" does not change the fact that they are administering United States government propaganda. A government circulating media which advances its information interests is precisely the thing that state propaganda is!!

The United States government is theoretically prohibited from directly administering propaganda to its own population (though even that line has been deliberately eroded in recent years with measures like the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act and United States government infiltration of the mass media and Silicon Valley), but there is nothing stopping the funding and directing of foreign bodies to circulate propaganda on the internet, which has no national borders.

Back when United States propaganda was limited to old media like the Central Intelligence Agencys Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia it was possible to claim that the propaganda was solely being targeted at the populations where that media was broadcast, but propaganda circulated online will necessarily trickle over everywhere, including to United States audiences.

The Washington Post explains that these secret programs were discontinued ahead of the Russian invasion last year because a stipulation in the 2018 NDAA law which permitted their funding forbids their use during a "traditional armed conflict," so the Pentagon is working to persuade congress to repeal that condition. Part of its sales pitch to congress to get these secret operations restarted is that they will be "what the United States military calls "non-kinetic" - or nonviolent - missions," which the administering of propaganda would certainly qualify as.

They are Not Worried About "Russian Influence", They are Worried About Dissent

One of the craziest things happening in the world today is the way westerners are being brainwashed by western propaganda into panicking about Russian propaganda.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) February 5, 2023

As we discussed recently, it is very silly that there is a major push in the United States power alliance to begin administering more government propaganda in order to "counter Russian propaganda" when Russian propaganda has no meaningful influence in the western world.

Before RT was shut down it was drawing just 0.04 percent of the United Kingdoms total TV audience. The much-touted Russian election interference campaign on Facebook was mostly unrelated to the election and affected "approximately 1 out of 23,000 pieces of content" according o Facebook, while research by New York University into Russian trolling behavior on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2016 election found "no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior." A study by the University of Adelaide found that despite all the warnings of Russian bots and trolls following Russias invasion of Ukraine, the overwhelming majority of inauthentic behavior on Twitter during that time was anti-Russian in nature.

In reality, this push we have been seeing to pour more and more energy into propaganda, censorship, and other forms of narrative control has nothing to do with "taking apart Russian propaganda" and everything to do with suppressing dissent.

The United States empire has been frantically ramping up propaganda and censorship because the "great power competition" it has been preparing against Russia and China is going to require economic warfare, massive military spending, and nuclear brinkmanship that no one would consent to without lots of manipulation. Nobody is going to consent to being made poorer, colder, and less safe over some global power struggle that does not benefit them unless that consent is actively manufactured!!

That is why the media have been acting so weird lately, that is why dissident voices are getting harder and harder to find online, that is the purpose of the new "fact-checking" industry and other forms of narrative control, and that is why the Pentagon wants congressional funding for its propaganda operations in Ukraine!!

The fact that the empires "great power competition" happens to be occurring at the same time as widespread access to the internet means that drastic measures must be made to ensure its information dominance so it can march the public into playing along with this agenda. The more desperate our rulers grow to secure unipolar planetary domination, the more important controlling the narrative becomes!!

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