Non-linear Mind Warfare Enables Mass Control, and Why the Magnitsky Act Helps Stop It

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Our "oh dear" defeatist response to "events" has become the central part of a new system of political control -- nonlinear warfare and the sowing of confusion.

Some outside Russia, such as Ned Reskinoff of ThinkProgress,[95] and Adam Curtis in the BBC documentary HyperNormalisation,[10] have claimed that [Vladislov] Surkov's unique blend of politics and theatre have begun to affect countries outside of Russia,[96] most notably the United States with the selection of Donald Trump for the 2016 US Republican nomination and Trump's subsequent campaign and election victory.

In an editorial for the London Review of Books quoted by Curtis, Peter Pomerantsev describes Putin's Russia thus:

In contemporary Russia, unlike the old USSR or present-day North Korea, the stage is constantly changing: the country is a dictatorship in the morning, a democracy at lunch, an oligarchy by suppertime, while, backstage, oil companies are expropriated, journalists killed, billions siphoned away.

Surkov is at the centre of the show, sponsoring nationalist skinheads one moment, backing human rights groups the next. It's a strategy of power based on keeping any opposition there may be constantly confused, a ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable because it's indefinable.

—?Peter Pomerantsev, in "Putin's Rasputin", London Review of Books issue of 20 October 2011[8]

Curtis claims that Trump used a similar strategy to become president of the United States, and hints that Trump's Surkovian origins caused Putin to express his admiration for Trump in Russian media.[97][98]

Vladislove Surkov has boasted that "Russia is playing with the West’s minds", "They don't know how to deal with their own changed consciousness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Surkov

Note that this nonlinear warfare is at work as clearly in the U.S. as in Britain.

Bill Browder presents an important voice of Russians, not Russian oligarchs -- Vladimir Kara-Murza-- who explains what the Magnitsky Act means to Russians: why the Act is as obvious and relevant today as it was revolutionary back then -- which is its principle of personal, individual accountability for corruption (hello, Elizabeth Warren) and human rights abuses.

Vladimir Kara-Murza clarifies for US, here, that the brilliance of the Magnitsky Act is that it only punishes the oligarchs, not the Russian people, as old state-sanctioning used to do.

So when 45 says he wants to end sanctions against Russia, what he really means is that he wants to rescind the Magnitsky Act. And we know he'll never name that act.

More Magnitsky Act brilliance: people who, from credible evidence, corruptly acquire their wealth may no longer get visas, own assets, or use the banking services of the countries that pass this legislation (any many have passed versions of the Magnitsky Act). The best way to judge its effectiveness is in the ... absolutely hysterical reaction ... Putin's regime has to this whole ... international justice campaign.

We see through the hypocrisy and double standard built into the very heart of the Putin system of power: the very same oligarchs and senior officials of the Kremlin who abuse, attack, undermine and violate most basic norms of democracy and rule of law in Russia, very much like to enjoy the benefit, the opportunities and the freedoms afforded by the very same principles of democracy and rule of law in the West.

Because it's in the West where Russia's oligarchs
--keep their money,
-- buy their villas in New York,
--keep their wives and their mistresses and
-- educate their children.

It is this feckless, fatass fuck in the WH who has personally enabled Russian crooks to bypass the Magnitsky Act through him personally.