{"id":23759,"date":"2017-04-23T19:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T00:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23759"},"modified":"2017-04-23T19:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T00:14:52","slug":"confronting-russophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23759","title":{"rendered":"Confronting Russophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"Confronting Russophobia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2017\/04\/23\/or-38955.jpg\" alt=\"Confronting Russophobia\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"date\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/04\/23\/confronting-russophobia.html\">Confronting Russophobia<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>There is a paranoid,\u00a0hysterical quality to the public discourse on Russia and all things Russian in today\u2019s America.\u00a0 The corporate media machine and its Deep State handlers have abdicated reason and common decency in favor of raw hate and fear-mongering.\u00a0 We have not seen anything like it before, even in the darkest days of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>The roots of Russophobia\u2019s emotional appeal to the left seem clear: It comes as a huge mental relief to the ultrasensitive liberal mind to be able to hate an outside group with impunity, and even to appear virtuous in the process.\u00a0 Of course, the object of that animus is a Christian and European nation that stubbornly refuses to be postmodernized, or become gripped by self-hate and morbid introspection; a nation not ashamed of its past and unwilling to surrender its future to alien multitudes; a nation where nobody obsesses over transgender bathrooms, microaggressions, and other \u201cissues\u201d indicative of a society\u2019s moral and intellectual decrepitude.<\/p>\n<p>The liberals\u2019 ideological and emotional Russophobia has blended seamlessly with the bread-and-butter hostility to Russia shared by Deep State operatives in the intelligence and national-security apparatus, in the military-industrial complex, and in the congressional duopoly. The result is a surreal narrative that mixes supposedly unprovoked \u201cRussian aggression\u201d in Ukraine, hostile intent in the Baltics, serial war crimes in Syria, political destabilization in Western Europe, and gross interference in America\u2019s \u201cdemocratic process\u201d. The result is an altogether fictitious \u201cexistential threat,\u201d which has made President Trump\u2019s intended d\u00e9tente with Moscow impossible.\u00a0 He may have been serious about turning over a new leaf, but the Deep State counterpressure proved just too great.\u00a0 A solid rejection front emerged, left and right, conservative and liberal, which extends even into his own team and finally inhibited him from making moves that could have appeared too friendly to Putin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confronting Russophobia There is a paranoid,\u00a0hysterical quality to the public discourse on Russia and all things Russian in today\u2019s America.\u00a0 The corporate media machine and its Deep State handlers have abdicated reason and common decency in favor of raw hate and fear-mongering.\u00a0 We have not seen anything like it before, even in the darkest days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[199,694,3989,8203,827],"class_list":["post-23759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-deep-state","tag-russia","tag-russophobia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23760,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23759\/revisions\/23760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}