Democracy Assassins in the Great Propaganda Wars
I wrote yesterday that a Putin-Trump regime objective in the warfighting in Iran was to target European leaders and today, I wake up to headlines confirming
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Russia uses the same plays over and over again, and once you know this — that they’re really not that original — it helps to spot the op.
“The indirect targets of US bombs are leaders of democratic nations — they are forced to make sense of the senseless, and the aim is to degrade their power. Putin understands this strategy.”—me on Twitter, March 2, 2026
So yesterday, I wrote how Biden was targeted in 2023, how on Putin’s birthday, the US president was put in a situation he could not win.
How we learned he was put in that situation intentionally.
All you had to do was read the internal communications between Russian agents working directly for Putin, who had met with democratic assassins like Elon Musk. Here’s a screenshot from the doppelgänger affidavit — translated from the original Russian.
The Russians were looking for a proxy war as a way to destroy Biden’s reelection chances — a way to indirectly hit their target in the Great Propaganda Wars to pave the way for another Trump installation.
As I noted yesterday, Biden was labeled ‘genocide Joe’ — blamed for a war he did not start. Interestingly, in my research yesterday, I found myriad reports that Joe Biden in 2022 had accurately labeled what Putin was doing in Ukraine as a genocide.
So as I reflected on the events of the weekend — how Russian puppet states were at “war” — and I watched leaders of the remaining democratic nations try to grapple with their response — it seemed clear to me that they were the actual targets.
And then of course I woke up to billionaire and oligarch-owned media parroting Trump’s attacks on European leaders.
Here’s one from the Financial Times:
Trump threatens to cut trade with ‘terrible’ Spain and calls Starmer ‘no Churchill.’
And the BBC weighs in with:
Trump Mocks Starmer
And from Yahoo:
Trump tells Starmer: ‘Open up the North Sea. Immediately’
‘To combat soaring energy prices triggered by the US-led war with Iran.’
As I noted in my ‘crazy making’ report, the United States has become a drunken brawler, and Russia is very good at using its antics to create political quicksand in every part of the world.
Here’s a great Politico headline about Merz, who opted to fly to the US to kiss the ring:
Germany’s Merz sits powerless as Trump attacks European allies in Oval Office
And Macron, who started the week by accurately noting the US strikes on Iran ‘were outside international law’ is now getting the business from The Kenyan Times today:
France’s Macron Folds Moments After Trump Threatened Spain
So US Democrats in Congress who see no clear reason why the war even began may want to look further over the waves for answers.
Pretending old alliances still exist will only expedite the end of many capable leaders’ careers, as democracy assassins take aim at European countries through wars in other places.
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