I haven't read much of this book yet.
I would just make this note, in passing, on Andrew's presentation.
He singles out South Africa, to make some points about the fact that the Soviets were alone in supporting the ANC and Mandela, which he considers to have been morally a good thing, somehow, presumably in a Whig globalist liberal color blind kind of way.
Yet he quotes Mandela, in his Memoirs..."The cynical have always suggested that the communists were using us. But who is to say that we are not using them?"
He rammed Soviet aid up their ass.
Just as Gandhi had rammed British liberalism, extended by them towards his activities, up theirs.
Just as MLK, a descendant of freed Lincoln Citizens had, 100 years later, rammed it up 1960s America, right during Vietnam.
But Andrew has some surprising insights to bring, re Soviet operations re MLK, seeing him as one who might have been able to reconcile white black tensions here, RE Stokely Carmichael, Black Muslims re Malcolm X, Huey Newton, etc. This, MLK's olive branch to whitey, was something that the Soviets opposed. So when he was assassinated, they rejoiced uproariously!
But, their propaganda then turned on a dime, and as Andrew says, it suddenly made much more sense to then present him, posthumously, as the victim of a large scale white racist conspiracy!
Now, just think back, about their support, noted above, for ANC, and Nelson Mandela, and you have squared the circle of Soviet influence re black white relations, both in the West, and in the third world, the Rest!
The Rooskies have even agreed recently to repatriate white Boer refugee farmers to Russia from South Africa negro oppression!
I dare say that the Chinese, in Africa and Malaysia, will vigorously posture themselves, similarly to that done by the Russians in the past, as the friends of the negro, and for similar reasons.
Just as Gandhi had rammed British liberalism, extended by them towards his activities, up theirs.
Just as MLK, a descendant of freed Lincoln Citizens had, 100 years later, rammed it up 1960s America, right during Vietnam.
But Andrew has some surprising insights to bring, re Soviet operations re MLK, seeing him as one who might have been able to reconcile white black tensions here, RE Stokely Carmichael, Black Muslims re Malcolm X, Huey Newton, etc. This, MLK's olive branch to whitey, was something that the Soviets opposed. So when he was assassinated, they rejoiced uproariously!
But, their propaganda then turned on a dime, and as Andrew says, it suddenly made much more sense to then present him, posthumously, as the victim of a large scale white racist conspiracy!
Now, just think back, about their support, noted above, for ANC, and Nelson Mandela, and you have squared the circle of Soviet influence re black white relations, both in the West, and in the third world, the Rest!
The Rooskies have even agreed recently to repatriate white Boer refugee farmers to Russia from South Africa negro oppression!
I dare say that the Chinese, in Africa and Malaysia, will vigorously posture themselves, similarly to that done by the Russians in the past, as the friends of the negro, and for similar reasons.
Just watch it, in light of subsequent developments. 45 minutes into his talk...
For the KGB, negro white and Jewish relations, and the prospect of race as well as religious war, have always been low hanging strange fruit.
The case can obviously be made that this is one of the big reasons they cultivated their relationships with Donald Trump in the first place; not even so much that he would actually win, which was not predicted, but that he would fan the flames they wanted fanned regardless.
The deep problem for American liberals confronting this situation now is that they cannot properly advert comfortably to the old early 20th Century history, or even later history during the Cold War, because they were so deeply implicated in the rise of and support for Bolshevism here from the beginning and right up through WWII.
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For the KGB, negro white and Jewish relations, and the prospect of race as well as religious war, have always been low hanging strange fruit.
The case can obviously be made that this is one of the big reasons they cultivated their relationships with Donald Trump in the first place; not even so much that he would actually win, which was not predicted, but that he would fan the flames they wanted fanned regardless.
The deep problem for American liberals confronting this situation now is that they cannot properly advert comfortably to the old early 20th Century history, or even later history during the Cold War, because they were so deeply implicated in the rise of and support for Bolshevism here from the beginning and right up through WWII.
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