New World Disorder: My Latest ‘Hot Type’ Column in Byline
In my weekly Hot Type column in Byline Supplement I report on the alarming new global 'cold alliance' colluding to tip Western democracies into ruin
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“We took our eye off the Soviets and failed to notice that the KGB had not lost the Cold War.”—me in Byline Supplement
In today’s Hot Type column for Byline Supplement, I write about how we are living through a cold alliance in a new world disorder. As I travel through Europe, I see the plot to duplicate the fall of America throughout every remaining democracy, and Europe better sober up.
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Below is an excerpt from today’s Hot Type:
Trump's New World Disorder
In her latest Hot Type column, Heidi Siegmund Cuda reports on the alarming new global 'cold alliance' colluding to tip Western democracies into ruin
Historians led us to believe that the Cold War ended in 1989, with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Freedom from tyranny washed like a tidal wave over the Eastern Bloc.
The most passionate resistors of World War II had lived for four decades under industrial brutality and finally got to taste the freedom they had earned.
In America, there was a feeling of relief — at long last we could turn our attention away from the klaxons and fallout shelters.
In Washington, a young Attorney General named William Barr, under President George H.W. Bush decided to repurpose agents away from Russia to focus on the crack cocaine epidemic.
Rather than do what had been done after every major world conflict for 500 years — occupy the defeated until their ideology is severed — we took our eye off the Soviets and failed to notice that the KGB had not lost the Cold War.
“The KGB didn’t stop,” Craig Unger told me after the publication of his book, American Kompromat. “The KGB went into hibernation, and it had very clever ways of resurfacing later on, plowing tens of billions of dollars into the West.”
A keen interest was taken by Russian intelligence in a bankruptcy-plagued New York businessman and sometime actor named Donald Trump, said Unger, an investigative reporter who has documented Trump’s ties to Russian money for decades.
On these pages, we, too, have documented the Russian money plowed into Silicon Valley, into the hands of the ‘PayPal Mafia’ and how Russia’s favorite Congressman Dana Rohrabacher helped Elon Musk privatize space.
As the world witnesses America become a hostage of authoritarian warlords and their loyalists, we have to confront the new cold alliances. They are based on greed and power. Empire is the story they tell themselves, but they’re simply gangsters — filling the black holes inside themselves with money.
Vladimir Putin has been helping himself to other people’s money and things since his KGB days in Dresden. In Karen Dawisha’s book Putin’s Kleptocracy, Klaus Zuchold, a Stasi officer from Dresden told a reporter he knew Putin since 1985, when he recruited him to work for the KGB.
When he visited Putin in his apartment, Putin showed off a new stereo bought at KaDeWe in West Berlin. The book is filled with examples of Putin’s lust for Western consumer goods and how he pocketed millions that were supposed to go to help build clinics or feed the starving, when he was deputy mayor of St. Petersburg.
Later, when he became President, he helped himself to New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl 2005 ring, which was encrusted with more than four carats of diamonds. He just snatched it like a common thief.
The speed with which America’s Government is being forcefully collapsed is both shocking and predictable as it represents the culmination of an alliance of con men with insatiable appetites.
They present themselves as American and Russian ‘moralists’ — bonded over their traditional family values and white supremacy — but like with the German fascist ‘gravediggers’, that’s just so they can steal from the ‘other’.
Under the Nazis, elite German businessmen paid for ‘special projects’ where pseudoscientific groups would promote racial doctrines. Academic hacks were paid to nurture the idea of Germans being descended from an Aryan race, intrinsically superior to other races, allowing the Nazi businessmen to benefit from aryanization, as Jewish business owners were forced to sell their companies at a fraction of their value.
New World Disorder
So while American intelligence looked away from protecting its citizens from the Soviet Union after the Cold War, alliances of right-wing extremists solidified.
Four years ago, I documented in Byline Times the network connections that ran straight from billionaire funders Robert Mercer and the Koch cadre directly to Moscow. The report now reads like the harbinger of things to come.
Network analyst and investigative reporter Dave Troy told me at the time:
“Basically, what it looks like is this network of folks connected with the Council for National Policy (CNP) that includes the Mercers, and the Kochs, coordinated a variety of campaigns in coordination with a variety of entities in Russia that are connected to the Kremlin to advance traditional values and disinformation and a variety of other things around the world.
“A lot of the people involved with CNP got involved with a group called the World Congress of Families that was put together in the mid-90s by an American visiting Russia, who realised that traditional values family values were something that would unite the East and the West, Russia and the United States.” By 2011, the World Congress of Families started scheduling their meetings in Russia.
“You ended up with all these traditional family organisations traveling to Russia on a repeated basis, and connecting with people like Aleksandr Dugin, a mystic philosopher who has been an advisor to Putin who has developed this Eurasianist global framework,” Troy explained…
“So these folks went from being virulently anti-USSR to being pro-Russia because they saw Putin’s network as being capitalistic, aligned with the Orthodox Church, and pro-family,” said Troy…
I wrote at the time that in “the framework Troy lays out, everything aligns. The bigger picture of American and Russian moralists trying to overthrow democracy actually makes sense.”
The tragedy of this writing is that we knew it then, we documented the players, we saw the plays, and called them out, and our warnings got drowned out by shotgun propaganda.
“In terms of who’s really running things here, it’s always been the Mercers, the Kochs, the Steve Bannons, the CNP people,” Troy told me back then. “It’s still them. And nothing’s changed. And one day, Trump will die, and there will be some new avatar that they nominate for the same purpose.”
A new avatar has been nominated, one who could not be President because he was born in South Africa.
So instead, with the help of the new cold alliance, Elon Musk bought the United States Presidency.
As he stood there in the Oval Office this week, using his son as a human shield, Trump scowls like Mussolini — contorting his face into a death mask in an attempt to project power.
These are the frontmen for the new world disorder.
They stand in front of cameras, smug in their success, because they’ve captured the major piece on the board.
With America now playing for the fascists, the frontmen — with their list of targets — are trying to duplicate their success by taking on the remaining democratic countries one by one until they flip the entire world into ruin.
They’re counting on a lack of resistance.
A real resistance would actually be devastating to them because their tools are mostly psychological, their power illusory.
In 1989, a brutal dictatorship ended in Romania sparked by one man who had the courage to say, ‘Boo.’
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It’s devastating when the very thing you’ve been warning about for decades comes to pass, and people are ‘surprised.’. See how the National Park Service workforce is being decimated? They’ll try to privatize them next, which has also been an undercurrent for decades. I’m counting on WE THE PEOPLE - BOO!