Something is going on, and it&#8217;s been going on for a while: ideological subversion.
And it&#8217;s a dangerous threat to the United States of America.
We all know that Candace Owens hates a lot of things: the truth, basic scientific knowledge, proper pronunciation of words, Charlie Kirk&#8217;s widow, and, naturally, the Jews.
But undergirding all of that is a conspiratorial, anti-American worldview. She does not like America, and neither do her ideological allies. That’s why she is headed to Russia: to visit her friends, ideological handlers, and sponsors.
The reason I&#8217;m saying that she has ideological solidarity with those governments is that our current status with Russia is not great. The United States government has a problem with the Russian government. The State Department currently advises Americans not to travel to Russia for any reason. They stated, “U.S. citizens are at risk due to terrorism, unrest, wrongful detention and other threats. U.S. citizens in Russia should leave immediately.”
They warn that the American embassy in Russia will not be able to help you if you travel there and get in trouble with the Russian government. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pointed out that the United States has severe sanctions on Russia right now for a reason.
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Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson can go there because they are useful idiots for the Russian regime. They agree with the Russian regime that America is terrible and morally deficient. They agree that American power in the world is evil.
A lot of people have speculated about what happened to Candace and Tucker; were they paid off?
I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the case. I will grant them their sincerity. I think they honestly believe all the terrible things they&#8217;re saying.
So do the Russians.
So what is Candace doing in Russia? She&#8217;s not going there for the fashion. It has been reported that she is attending and speaking at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum alongside Vladimir Putin as well as Alexander Dugin, known as “Putin&#8217;s brain,” the great theorist of Russian supremacism, as well as other members of the Russian government and Intel community.
According to Ryan Mauro, “SPIEF, where Candace will speak on a panel, is a known hub for Russian intel. Leaked docs show that its panels serve as ‘recruitment pipelines’ for foreign collaborators. Top goals are ‘media partnerships’ with ‘foreign influencers’ as part of ‘state-directed soft power.’”
None of this should be a shock. You&#8217;ll recall that recently, Candace Owens interviewed Hunter Biden. It was a warm interview; very, very strange. After her interview, Laura Loomer correctly reported that Russia Today, which is the Russian state media, posted 17 separate clips of Candace&#8217;s interview with Hunter Biden, which is not a shock because she is their ideological ally.
They do the same thing with Tucker Carlson, another one of these Russian allies. He has spent years parroting Russia&#8217;s perspective on the world over and over again.
When people say what happened to Tucker, the answer is: nothing. He always believed those things; he just had people in seats above him at Fox preventing him from going fully off the rails. The Tucker you&#8217;re seeing today is the real Tucker.
Russia loves the real Tucker because he agrees with them, obviously. In 2024, Tucker traveled to Russia and praised the magic of their Russian-operated shopping cart because the man had never been to an Aldi.
He is one of the most silver-spoon people in America, and he was astonished by the workings of basic grocery stores.
So what is actually happening here? Candace, Tucker, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, Thomas Massie; why all this warmth toward Russia? The answer is ideological kinship.
But the really big question here is: Why is this important?
Over the past decade, it has felt like everything in America is falling apart; the polarization is extraordinary. We&#8217;ve seen institutional distrust, economic unrest, and civil unrest.
A lot of that is not a coincidence; it is part of an actual plan. That doesn&#8217;t mean everything that we&#8217;re seeing in America is dictated by the Russian government. They don&#8217;t have that kind of power. They didn’t rig the 2016 election or some nonsense like that.
A lot of the institutional distrust that Americans have right now is earned: Russiagate or the government&#8217;s response to Covid, or the Black Lives Matter scam, or the cover-up of Joe Biden&#8217;s mental incompetence. There’s a lot of blame to go around for institutional distrust.
But here&#8217;s the thing: Our enemies in Russia, China, and Iran wait for vulnerability in the United States, and then they exacerbate divides and exploit them.
Here&#8217;s how the world works through the lens of actual legitimate influence operations. These are real things that have been going on for decades.
Yuri Bezmenov was a Soviet informant and KGB operative. He defected to the United States in the early 1970s. In a 1984 interview that&#8217;s become famous online, titled “Deception was my job,” he laid out the four stages of what he called ideological subversion that were created by radical Soviet Marxists to indoctrinate and weaken nations from within and then destroy them.
Listen to how he lays out the operation here:
<blockquote>To change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite their abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country. It&#8217;s a great brainwashing process, which goes very slow, and is divided into four basic stages. The first one being demoralization. It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years which requires to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy, exposed to the ideology of the enemy.
In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism.
The result you can see: Most of the people who graduated in the 60s, dropouts, or half-baked intellectuals are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, educational system. You are stuck with them. You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern.
You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.</blockquote>
Demoralization, as Bezmenov spells it out, is followed by stage two: destabilization. Destabilization is where you create the preconditions for stage three, which is a crisis, a breakdown. And then stage four is normalization of the new set of values.
Right now we are still in the late stages of stage one demoralization, where we have had several generations of indoctrination at the highest levels in America into anti-Americanism. And that destabilization requires friends; it requires ideological allies.
We could have destabilization at any moment. All it takes is a little push, and we&#8217;re in crisis. Maybe there&#8217;s an economic downturn, maybe there&#8217;s foreign chaos.
But right now, our enemies are laser-focused on demoralizing us. Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon and Alex Jones, all the people that Russia has been openly using and allying with, are demoralization agents.
They are doing the work. Russia needs them and is using them, and they&#8217;re not shy about this.
Alexander Dugin has appeared on a wide variety of Woke Right shows, ranging from Tucker to Alex Jones. In 1997, he wrote a book called “Foundations of Geopolitics.” That book was then apparently used as a textbook at the General Staff Academy in Russia and became part of their actual policy.
Here&#8217;s a quote from that book. See if you can spot what&#8217;s going on.
<blockquote>It is especially important to bring geopolitical turmoil into the US domestic reality by encouraging all kinds of separatism. There is ethnic, social, and racial conflict, actively supporting all dissident movements of extremist, racist,and sectarian groups that destabilize internal political processes in the United States. At the same time, it makes sense to support isolationist tendencies in US politics. The theses of those often right-wing Republican circles that believe the US should confine itself to its domestic problems. This state of affairs is highly advantageous to Russia, even if isolationism is carried out within the original Monroe Doctrine warning i.e., if the U.S. limits its influence to America. This does not mean Eurasia — (meaning Russia) — should give up on destabilizing the Latin American world by seeking to remove certain regions from U.S. control. All levels of geopolitical pressure on the United States must be engaged simultaneously.</blockquote>
He&#8217;s talking about demoralization. Find allies who are stumping for America to be weaker in the world, actively generate tension, actively generate sectarianism in American politics, actively pit Americans against one another, and find friends on the Right-wing side of the aisle to help foment all of that.
The good news for Russia is that in the era of the internet — when there are no reliable fact checkers, when the wave of information that Bezmenov talks about is unstoppable because there&#8217;s just so much conflicting stuff out there — it&#8217;s very difficult for anyone who&#8217;s not deeply in this stuff to find the truth.
It&#8217;s a perfect environment for the spreading of this kind of demoralization and chaos.
You can see who the friends are. Alex Jones spoke with Dugin (!) about rediscovering what it meant to be American.
Tucker Carlson did an interview with Alexander Dugin and painted him as a victim of censorship and a non-regime-aligned philosopher, a true Platonic figure, protesting that “his ideas are deeply offensive to some people.”
Dugin said that actually the reason the West hates Vladimir Putin is not because he&#8217;s an aggressive dictator, a former KGB agent who has fostered chaos and evil all over the world, and is currently involved in the invasion of a sovereign country that has resulted in the deaths of at least half a million people and threatening other Eastern European countries as well, spreading chaos down into Africa, spreading chaos into the Middle East. No, the reason — according to Tucker and Dugin — that the West has a problem with Vladimir Putin is because Vladimir Putin is a true “traditionalist.”
When he&#8217;s not poisoning his enemies.
I&#8217;m not saying that Tucker and Candace are working for Russia. I&#8217;m saying they agree with them. They agree with America&#8217;s enemies.
The demoralization ideology has infected the entire Democratic Party. Whether it’s Hasan Piker or Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a terror supporter, or Maine senatorial candidate Graham Platner attacking a Purple Heart recipient or James Talarico saying that the American flag, Jesus, and the cross had been co-opted, it’s all the same.
The demoralization operation is operating.
Once you see what&#8217;s going on, it&#8217;s hard to unsee it. 

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