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https://www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/cold-war/conference/white.html
I stumbled upon this article I that I found fascinating: It's a paper on American attitudes towards communism during the Cold War, and there's a lot of juicy opinion poll data from the 50's regarding civil liberties and the fight against communism. But the really interesting thing is that it's written seemingly during the end of the Clinton administration.
The wall fell nearly a decade prior, and the post-war issue the paper is most concerned with is the "lack of an enemy". The paper mostly maintains a neutral tone, but there is a faint, almost wistful nostalgia to the whole thing. About just how easy it was to get the American people behind you (or in other words, control the populace) back when there was a clear, tangible threat for everyone to worry about. In a darkly humorous moment, the paper mentions several tragedies/human rights abuses of the time, and opines that these just don't carry the "compelling moral appeal" of the fight against Communism - I would argue that the paper itself up to that point has made a strong case for it being not a moral issue, but one of safety and security.
So, we have a late 90's paper that's essentially about how getting Americans to be less precious about their civil liberties has gotten harder since America lost a Big Bad to punch up on the international stage.
Hmmmm... I wonder what happened next?
Excellent find, thanks Anon. There is more hidden into this paper than meets the eye and I would argue this paper gives a nice glimpse "behind the matrix". I think this deserves to be a post on its own. Feel free to make this a post if you are interested and tag me so I can manually approve it (since you are a new user).
The first part about Breznev welcoming Nixon's election, and back channel communications - while exposing the the level of intrigue a common person never believes is possible (getting the enemy's blessing for electing your own president, for instance), provides us a clue about the real war that was being fought during cold war.
Wait for it. The real war was between The Whitehats against the Cabal. (Always has been).
This is crazy right? But if we look at the history through the lens that every conflict is created artificially to keep humanity isn a state of perpetual fear and despair, and that though all these divisons there have always been people on both sides that wanted to end the charade.
Now let me present something I have been long arguing: What really happened in Soviet Union during cold war?
The article actually bolsters this theory in multiple ways:
Breznev supporting Nixon with the hopes that would normalize relations with USSR
Existance of a deep state in USSR (opposing Breznev) in the form of US Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, and the collusion of the democrats with this faction.
This is what I argued in my post about Breznev: