Indirect Targets of Crazy Making
As the US becomes a drunken brawler, we can see a real goal emerge - to weaken Western leaders with shock events and so-called wars
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“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
On Putin’s birthday in 2023, Joe Biden was put in a situation he could not win. Back an allied country that was run by a corrupt leader, who after losing the Israeli election two years earlier, called Putin and promised him: “I will be back soon.”
And he was. Netanyahu returned to power as Prime Minister December 2022, and from January to October of 2023, large-scale protests against him took place across Israel. In particular, people were protesting the judicial coup that was taking place — the government was trying to get full control of the Supreme Court and dismantle the Israeli Bar Association, weakening the rule of law.
Those protests ceased after October 7.
When I read the doppelgänger affidavit documenting in granular detail the active measures Russia was waging throughout the democratic West by its mimicry of western media outlets, my blood ran cold when I read its agents’ clear-eyed take on Biden’s successes as President. How strong the US economy was under him — key to an incumbent winning reelection. The Russian agents noted how he “fed the rednecks” — meaning that even MAGA was benefitting under his leadership.
So as their internal documents revealed, they began batting around the idea of a proxy war as a way to destroy Biden’s reelection chances.
Sometimes, targets are hit indirectly.
Biden became ‘genocide Joe’ — blamed for a war he did not start.
As I watch leaders of the remaining democratic nations try to grapple with their response to Trump’s crazy making in Iran, I urge them to learn a lesson from America’s misfortune.
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.
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