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March 6, 2024

Have you ever been listening to someone talk and have déjà vu even though you’ve never seen or heard of the person speaking, and the interview you’re watching happened just a few hours before? I have. Once. Last week. Hint: It has to do with America’s destruction.

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I was listening to Tucker interview Xi Van Fleet, a Chinese native who lived through the Cultural Revolution in China. She eventually immigrated to the United States, where she’s now lived for 40 years. Listening to her describe the beginnings of the Cultural Revolution and its eerie echoes here, I knew I’d heard something similar before.

And then it hit me: I had. Exactly 40 years ago, a defector from the Soviet Union, Yuri Bezmenov, gave an interview explaining how the KGB was using what it called Ideological Subversion to collapse the United States.

Now, these two interviews weren’t remotely the same. One was from a KGB operative, someone who was part of the Soviet system suppressing the Russian people and who became disillusioned and defected to the West, while the other was from someone who experienced the CCP’s suppression before immigrating to the US.

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Nonetheless, although given exactly 40 years apart, the two interviews taken together paint a very stark picture of America today and going forward. They reminded me of a technique that is often recommended for effective public speaking: “Tell them what you’re going to tell them. Tell them. Then tell them what you’ve just told them.”

Bezmenov lays out the KGB’s plan—ideological subversion—for sowing America’s and Western Europe’s collapse. The plan involved four elements, which he carefully explained:

1) Demoralization—15-20 years to re-educate one generation.

This is done through uncritically introducing Marxist ideology into schools without counterbalancing it with basic American values, patriotism, and morals. Eventually, a significant segment of the population will become immune to accurate information.

2) Destabilization—2-5 years to destabilize a nation.

The goal is to destabilize the nation via the economy, foreign relations, and defense policy.