Why Pat Buchanan Became The Grand Old Man of the "Christian Nationalism" Op Against America by Diana W
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Why Pat Buchanan Became The Grand Old Man of the "Christian Nationalism" Op Against America by Diana W
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— @realDianaWest (@realDianaWest) October 10, 2025
His advisors are at fault, but Trump is at fault for picking his advisors.
Qatari/Saudi cabinet family surrounding Donald Trump. What I mean by that is we have Pam Bondi, the former Qatari registered [lobbying] agent.
We have Suzie Wiles, Chief of Staff, also involved in the PR world with her Qatar and previous profession.
We have Jared Kushner, son-in-law with the $2 billion dollars Saudi loan or investment in his company shortly before the election.
We have Tiffany's [Tiffany Trump] husband, Bulous, very involved in Islamic politics through his father's family in Lebanon.
We have the Trump boys now developing a massive Trump business, golf course, luxury site IN QATAR. I think it is so unseemly. It's a conflict of interest, and if the rest of the Republicans and Democrats weren't similarly bought off, you would be hearing about it because it is not right for the President's son to be profiting and making business deals while the President is in office. I mean Lesson #1 about anything. So you have all of this going on. Remember that trip through the Middle East, through the Gulf trip that Donald Trump took? This was a charm offensive that has gotten him into this place where if he had one good advisor on Islam, such as Major Stephen Coughlin, for example, or former Special FBI Agent, John Guandolo, [Twitter acct.], and I could keep listing, so any of these people, who would have explained to him that Islamic jihad groups, like Hamas, and it is not them alone, it's in the panoply of Muslim Brotherhood, constellations, it's a branch . . . if they enter into any sort of "peace negotiations," it's because they are in a period of weakness, which we can see,
Peace mentioned in the Quran only one time
— Bob (@Shariakill) July 19, 2025
“And do not ask for Peace when you’re stronger” Quran 47:35
There is no peace in Islam, all the infidels must be eliminated or become slaves to the Muslims
There is only HUDNA, temporary treaty when Muslims in a weak position until… pic.twitter.com/4fXFbTqBFn
Why is peace not possible and between Israel and fundamentalist Muslims?
From the Islamic point, peace means when Islam has taken over the world, established its imperialistic caliphate and Sharia is implemented the Islamic law is implemented throughout the world, then we have peace. Peace in Islam means you surrender and you submit the word Islam means surrender when they shout Allahu Akbar and you become Muslim it means you just surrendered to an Islamic Army. That is their understanding of peace as Muslims from your perspective as a Christian it is cute pretty much that you want peace they don't they want you to surrender they want you to page which is the latest revelation of the self-diagnosed profit of Islam it says that you fight them till they surrender chapter 9 verse 28, 29, and 30. Those are the verses, I gave you those, these are all about Christians and Jews. You fight them until they surrender. You want peace with them; they don't, and the Islamic regime of Iran has proven that over and over. Israel wanted to be left alone. They wanted to live their lives, but the Iranian regime "Death to America!" "Death to Israel!" They just kept provoking. They just kept sending proxies, they sent missiles. How long can you put up with it? You want peace, that's understandable. They don't.
1:41. Muslims should not concede or compromise with people when we have the higher ground or we have the upper ground there's actually an amazing eye in the Quran. Ia 139, to be honest with you Islam has the upper hand we're not going to give you that concession.
1:57. Hudna. It means when you're weak you make treaties until you get strong enough to disregard them.
There is only HUDNA, temporary treaty when Muslims are in a weak position until they get stronger and try to conquer you again.
RETURN TO DIANA WEST INTERVIEW
17:15. See with our own eyes and they're entering into what Islamic lies called hudna. This is a temporary truce that allows an Islamic fighting group to gain time in order to get strong and break the truce. And this is not me talking. This is Islam, and it goes back 1400 years. This is elementary, and similarly we have the Islamic concept very important of taqiya, which is deception, and you have it from on high, on Islamic high that is, for Muslims to lie to advance Islam. This is a holy writ. There is no Thou shalt not lie as we have in the Ten Commandments and the religion judicial or legal organization known as Islam it doesn't exist so if you know those two basic things that anyone can grass because of course Islam was basically design for 9-year-old boys to grasp. If you know those two things, you do not put out messages about how Hamas is ready for peace, P E A C E, has Donald Trump does and expect anything but rack and ruin. To come of it and I'm very sorry to say that but this is just this kind of exercise that we've seen time and time again and it is so sad to see Donald Trump tragic to see Donald Trump sucked in by it but you know sucked in he is and this is kind of where we are but is this basic understanding of Islam that has been blocked out of anyone in authority in America certainly from 9/11 forward.
18:57. It's a blind spot when that he has when it comes to business and making money. And let's be honest, it if it were the Democrats doing this, we'd be screaming bloody murder.
19:10. Right, with Hunter Biden. Golf Club deal with Qatar while his father was yes exactly that is part of the genius of this in terms of the bad guys advancing their agendas because we are confused if it's Donald Trump we know that he loves America we know he wants the best for us but it's a blind spot or we don't know what it is we judge them by their actions as the Bible tells us right know them by their fruits we don't know what's going on in his head we never will and similarly for everyone involved and is frightening because we've seen this many times in cases of Israel fighting Islamic armies that the United States generally stops Israel before it finishes any sort of War decisively
If the Soviet penetration of Washington, D.C., was so wide and so deep that it functioned like an occupation …
— E Stanton (@EStanton625970) September 12, 2025
If, as a result of that occupation, American statecraft became an extension of Soviet strategy …
If the people who caught on – investigators, politicians,…
If the Soviet penetration of Washington, D.C., was so wide and so deep that it functioned like an occupation...
If, as a result of that occupation, American statecraft became an extension of Soviet strategy …
If the people who caught on – investigators, politicians, defectors – and tried to warn the American public were demonized, ridiculed and destroyed for the good of that occupation and to further that strategy …
And if the truth was suppressed by an increasingly complicit Uncle Sam …
Would you feel betrayed?
Now available from St. Martin's Press, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character
What do I mean by "armies"? Ion Mihai Pacepa, former Chief of intelligence in communist Romania, told me, "During the Cold War, more people in the Soviet bloc worked for the dezinformatsiya [disinformation] machine than for the Soviet army and defense industry put together. The bloc's intelligence community alone had over one million officers (the KGB had over 700,000) and several million informants around the world. All were involved in deceiving the West--and their own country--or in supporting the effort.
Remember way back in 2022, how Biden installed one Nina Jankowicz to lead the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board?
I don't know how or what you think of communism, but you should know that violence and invasion are part and parcel of its immoral ideology and destructive action. Which is why Bolsheviks and internationalists slid underground into movements like the Environmental Movement, call it Global Warming, change the name to a more general and vacuous moniker, to suck more people into a fool's errand. If you've forgotten about all the communist invasions, let me help. As critical as I can be, even I underestimated the number of invasions,
Estonia, 1918.
Poland, 1939-1956.
Baltic States, 1940-1991.
Finnish territories, 1940.
Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, 1940.
Iran, 1941-1946.
Hungary, 1944-1991.
Romania, 1944-1958.
Bulgaria, 1944-1947.
Czechoslovakia, 1944-1947
Northern Norway, 1944-1946, and Bornholm Denmark, 1945-1946.
Eastern Germany, 1945-1949.
Austria, 1945-1955.
Manchuria, 1945-1946.
Korea, 1945-1948.
Kuril Islands, 1945.
COLD WAR
Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Czechoslovakia, 1968-1989.
Afghanistan, 1979-1989.
There has been an ongoing Marxist lead insurgency in the country since the 1960's. The Marxist made common cause (United Front) with Islam to destroy the United States, and they are winning.
We all know precisely what has happened, the "grand conspiracy" is staring you right in the face, it is these people demanding you accept their framing of events so they can continue to accelerate the dismantling of Constitution and Bill of Rights. --Linuxhippie
When the Floyd Riots happened, both the GOPe & the Left oriented on the same language. "Peaceful Protest" Now we see the same thing with "civility" "tone down" "unity" & "gun violence" "both sides". When these people use the word "dialogue" it doesn't mean what you think it means---- and they know you don't know it. A call for "Dialogue" turns what follows into a dialectical event. Which typically manifests into intersectional lines of attack, and has as it's object a target for negation. In this case there are likely several targets but make no mistake, they all are directed at YOU. I would like to point out, nobody rioted or burned down buildings. There wasn't massive protests, just vigils. So what are we exactly suppose to "tone down?" Our outrage at an innocent man being assassinated at a public speaking event on a college campus? Our complete and total frustration at the lack of any serious effort to address the ongoing Marxist / Islamic revolution that (IS) the "formal cause" of the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the murders of innocent American Citizens? Make no doubt, Lankford knows exactly what he's doing. He expects some outrage (which will be dismissed as fringe) but he's betting that if enough of his colleagues continue the "praxis" they'll achieve political acceptance. You cannot dismiss this man as being weak or a cuck. You cannot accept his rhetoric as being legitimate or you are consigning yourself to destruction. Final Cause is FIRST in the order of "intention" but last in the order of "execution". Said differently, he made the decision to say what he said based on a careful analysis of "their" objectives. This is the real enemy that must be defeated or anything we attempt is doomed from the outset. There has been an ongoing Marxist lead insurgency in the country since the 1960's. The Marxist made common cause (United Front) with Islam to destroy the United States, and they are winning. Lankford's words are based on a "dialectical" framing of events not in reality. There is simply zero evidence to substantiate his position. If you can find an event on the chart below, that (IS) what it (IS), it's not any more complicated than that. To deny that is to willfully support the actions of those who seek you totally destruction. We all know precisely what has happened, the "grand conspiracy" is staring you right in the face, it is these people demanding you accept their framing of events so they can continue to accelerate the dismantling of Constitution and Bill of Rights. Never debate the absurd.When the Floyd Riots happened, both the GOPe & the Left oriented on the same language. "Peaceful Protest"
— linuxhippie (Bring Back The Duel) (@linuxhippie) September 13, 2025
Now we see the same thing with "civility" "tone down" "unity" & "gun violence" "both sides".
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! Stephen Miller reveals Democrats got 20 to 30 HOUSE SEATS from counting illegals in the Census.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 7, 2025
"20 to 30 of House Democrat seats wouldn't exist but for illegal aliens!"
But President Trump's starting a new Census NOW, with no illegals.
"Let's not forget:… pic.twitter.com/VYDRbHOlTB
He was a man of faith of great values and when he went to Los Angeles he became this big time writer he never changed I mean he never drove a luxury car he was still the same guy from Kentucky if he donated money when he donated he did so in anonymously he taught us that money meant nothing and he told us that we should be who we are and stay true to ourselves and he led by example he showed us that it's possible even in a world like Hollywood that you can still remain yourself and I think that's had a tremendous impact on me.
Such conditioning erodes the male protective instinct -- which, surely, is what war is supposed to arise from -- and the female nurturing instinct, which surely is what a civilization depends on. --Diana West.
It (civilization) has been struggling there for decades, as social engineers and radical feminists -- all heirs to Marx -- have been cutting away at elemental human instinct, social grace, language and thought itself. This overhaul of manners and mores, the family structure and marriage -- even private aspects of the relationship between men and women -- has been successful to a point where the cultural argument against women in combat (women in the military being a lost cause) is rarely voiced, not even on the right. (I watched Fox News on women-in-combat announcement day, listening in vain for just one culture warrior.)
We are left to make only the utilitarian arguments -- body strength and speed, unit cohesion, even urinary tract infections and other hazards that front-line deployment pose to females. These are compellingly logical points, but they are unlikely to reverse an ideological juggernaut. When the secretary of defense says putting women in combat is about "making our military ... and America stronger" and no one says he's lying to further a Marxian ideal via social engineering, the cultural argument is lost, and the culture it comes from is bound and gagged, hostage to what we know as "political correctness."
I still see threads of the cultural argument in emails and some blog responses to the Pentagon's latest whack at creating "gender neutrality." It erupts like a reflex against the conditioning to deny differences defined, at their essence, by muscle mass and womb. Such conditioning erodes the male protective instinct -- which, surely, is what war is supposed to arise from -- and the female nurturing instinct, which surely is what a civilization depends on.
No more. Women with wombs and without manly muscle mass now count as Pentagon-approved "warriors," modern-day knights in Kevlar, soon to be humping 80-pound packs over mountain and desert.
So women in combat erodes the male protective instinct and drops "some of the those old-fashioned strength and speed standards."
Or maybe not. Didn't Gen. Dempsey indicate that dropping some of those old-fashioned strength and speed requirements might be in order? "If we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn't make it," Dempsey said last week, "the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the Secretary, why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high?" Of course not! Why train Navy SEALs when Navy OTTERs will do as well?
The scale of the judicial coup now underway is breathtaking. All designed to make America a third world nation. https://t.co/pCg2GLk9Ub
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) April 30, 2025
Jennifer Leigh Thurston is an American judge who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. She previously served as the Chief United States magistrate judge of the same court.
TOM HOMAN ON MORNING JOE -- Not one person was vetted coming into America, now Democrats want to vet everyone we deport.
Translation: The Communist destroyers who wield power treasonously to destroy us will not relinquish their armies imported to destroy us.
Find this Tom Homan quote at the 7:45 mark.
Thank you to realDianaWest.
It would've been helpful to attach the video pic.twitter.com/bbqPhMGzuL
— DaRay🇺🇲❤️🤍💙🇺🇲 (@DaRay38) February 3, 2025
Just love how uneducated both Americans and Canadians truly are.
— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) February 2, 2025
Here are just some historic tariffs Canada hits America with.
Milk: 270%
Cheese: 245%
Butter: 298%
Chicken: 238%
Sausages: 69.9%
Barley seed: 57.8%
Bovine/meat: 26.5%
Cars: 25%
HVAC: 45%
Vacuums: 35%
Cable boxes:…
Diana West and Dave Collum- TIM WALZ’s CONNECTIONS TO CHINA
— Michael Farris (@CoffeeandaMike) September 19, 2024
Part II: We discuss Diana’s book The Red Thread. the feminist movement, Trump, Kamala, Russia/Ukraine, elections 2024, and more.@realDianaWest @DavidBCollum @Matt_Bracken48
FULL SHOW: https://t.co/NObz5bO0SJ pic.twitter.com/3QPtVXpg9X
Complete interview.
American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, Diana West, 2013.
The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, Diana West, 2019.
They're not there upholding their constitutional oath in fact they're trashing them. And when you actually look at some of the very cold, I would say Marxist, beliefs behind these people that seem to animate them, they are deceiving us as to who they really are and they are trying to enact their own visions of what the quality should be irrespective of these oaths and irrespective of the people's will.
Is it possible that communist ideology has infiltrated America's intelligence agencies? After looking into key figures involved the Spygate Scandal, what information did Diana West uncover about their beliefs? And how is Donald Trump a counter-revolutionary president in West's view?
THE SEARCH FOR IDEOLOGICAL DRIVERS IN THE ANTI-TRUMP CONSPIRACY
The actions on the part of senior officials in Washington that certainly it may be argued that some of them are seditious I mean really serious actions against the rule of law in their efforts to take down this presidency. The campaign undermined the transition and it's gone on and on and I was trying to get a sense of why are they so angry, why were they resorting to these measures when America is known for peaceful transition of power.
Nelly Ohr was an academic she had been a professor in the 1990s and that meant they were going to publicly available writings, book reviews, for example, a PhD thesis, that I could at least look at to try to get a better sense of who she was, and, indeed, she turns out she is a Russian expert. She speaks the language. She taught the subject. She got a PhD in history at Stanford after Harvard, and she studied in the Soviet Union when it was still the Soviet Union. I ended up putting together in The Red Thread kind of an ideological profile of Nellie Ohr. She's my first case in which I learned that she did have a very soft spot for the regime of Joseph Stalin.
Fascinating.
Terrifying! She would talk about the terror and the excitement of the Stalin era. She was talking about the frustration in a book review of trying to teach about this era to her students at Vassar in the 1990s. Terror I can understand. Excitement? If you look a little further, you can find similarly that she applauded Stalin for trying to build a legal structure, "the agonizing paradox of Stalin era," trying to build a legal structure on the one hand, and yet executing innocent civilians on the other hand. This is the kind of moral equivalent attitude when you're looking at this bloodthirsty regime that killed millions and millions of people. The legal structure was a sham if you're killing and executing innocent civilians. This was very clearly a theme of her writings and indeed including in her PhD thesis that I learned that she follows a school of history in American academia known as revisionism, one that came about in the '60s and '70s that was essentially promoted by straight-up Marxist and the New Left what we used to call the new left in this country which really wasn't much different from the old left it was usually their children but they took over the departments on college campuses and they are at school that writes about itself and has its stars and so on and she clearly followed in the school and the people here are people who she essentially considered her mentors and study Network at Harvard and so on. So it became pretty clear that there was a red thread, if you will hear in terms of an openness to communist ideology as it was, put into practice. So she was case number one. Gives you a flavor of what I was finding with Nellie Ohr. What intrigued me is that she does have CIA credentials. She worked for their open-source shop, so she had a CIA connection. Interesting. We also know she took out a ham radio operator's license in the spring of 2016. Who is she talking to?
.@ehret_matthew: "Diana West's pedigree as a Kristol mainstream Yale narrative controller"
— Richard Poe 🇺🇸 (@RealRichardPoe) December 30, 2023
Whatever "mainstream" status @diana_west_ may have had once, it was taken from her after she wrote AMERICAN BETRAYAL (2013). https://t.co/Cas3RJf6l4 pic.twitter.com/sJBXI7sKSa
American Betrayal is America's lost history, a chronicle that pits Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight David Eisenhower, and other American icons who shielded overlapping Communist conspiracies against the investigators, politicians, defectors, and others (including Senator Joseph McCarthy) who tried to tell the American people the truth.
American Betrayal shatters the approved histories of an era that begins with FDR's first inauguration, when "happy days" are supposed to be here again, and ends when we "win" the Cold War. It is here, amid the rubble, where Diana West focuses on the World War II--Cold War deal with the devil in which America surrendered her principles in exchange for a series of Big Lies whose preservation soon became the basis of our leaders' own self-preservation. It was this moral surrender to deception and self-deception, West argues, that sent us down the long road to moral relativism, "political correctness," and other cultural ills that have left us unable to ask the hard questions: Does our silence on the crimes of Communism explain our silence on the totalitarianism of Islam? Is Uncle Sam once again betraying America?In American Betrayal, Diana West shakes the historical record to bring down a new understanding of our past, our present, and how we have become a nation unable to know truth from lies.
You can find speeches and interviews given by Diana West all over the internet. I found this one on YouTube, where she reviews her 2014 book, American Betrayal.
At the 9-minute mark, she talks about the communist occupation of Washington, D.C. strategy-making chain, and how that chain worked to extend WWII for two more years past 1943.
We had hundreds of communist agents in very influential positions in Washington, D.C. by 1943. One of the things that they were able to do was block . . . a very significant anti-Nazi German resistance. They had one problem: they were very highly placed. It included the Intelligence Chief, Admiral Wilhelm Franz Canaris, ; it included church members, it included generals, it included all manner of people from different kinds of groups. They were anti-communist. Every plan that they submitted to either the British or the Americans over this period, beginning around 1942, 1943, they would present to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi high command, to the Americans and the British, and in return, they wanted help to keep the Red Army in Russia out of Eastern and Central Europe, and this was always the basic plan. Because we had so many communists in positions of authority, this would be blocked. For example, there was an AP bureau chief, named Lochner, an American, who came back in 1942 with communications from Prince Louis Ferdinand of Germany. They wanted to establish secret communications with Roosevelt. Prince Louis Ferdinand knew President Roosevelt . . . .
11:17 The man who blocked Lochner at the White House was Lauchlin Currie, 1902-1993, one of Roosevelt's top assistants, dead-to-rights, confirmed Soviet agent. So you had Lochner dissuaded, not to call anymore, told it was getting embarrassing hearing from this AP bureau chief from Berlin with special messages from German resistance during the war. Extraordinary. The War could have ended earlier.
15:05. So I went back into this very dirty intelligence or that really the Soviet Union embarked upon beginning the moment it came into existence in 1917. But in 1917, it did so in American isolation. Four presidents and six Secretaries of State refused to recognize the Soviet Union. It was a revolutionary entity that declared war on everyone, and these presidents and secretaries of state saw no reason to normalize relations with such a critter. Until FDR came along, and on November 16th, 1933, he normalized relations with the Soviet Union. I actually think of this date now as America's fall.
Months earlier in the Soviet Union, what we know now as the terror famine, the famine of Ukraine, the state-engineered starvation, forced starvation of some 5 or 6 million, maybe more, people, had come to an end. And if several months later, the United States normalizes relations . . . this was not even a term; it's not even discussed in the notes that were exchanged. There was nothing. It was as if it didn't happen. Imagine, you have to scramble histories some, but imagine if after Hitler killed 6 million of his own people, 6 million Jews, a nation decided after that to normalize relations. We would, you know, be tearing our hair out. But this was a relationship that always based on this kind of self-delusion, lies; even the agreement itself, it's a very brief exchange of notes, it's kind of surprising when you go back to it. One of the pages, really the only real page of stipulations, is a series of promises that the Soviet Union had to sign that basically said, "We promise we won't support agents in your country to try to overthrow your Constitution." This was already going on; it only ramped up after normalization. And the government, the US government, all the institutions at this point, had to pretend, had to pretend that they were keeping their bargain. This was a big sea change for the United States. It was absolute . . . you can see the rise of a double standard in US policies, really double standards everywhere but in terms of the nuts and bolts of it we would end up in this New Deal Administration of Roosevelt in 1930s literally hundreds, hundreds of Americans working for the Kremlin that means not one Aldridge James, not five Cambridge spies led by Kim Philby but hundreds, and they were in place by the 1940s when we entered the war. [17:40] They were doing things right here in Washington, so at extremely the highest levels possible. It struck me that there comes a point with infiltration when it's so dense and so strategic that you have to start thinking of it as an occupation. It kind of helps . . . when you look at it that way, and I think when you look back and you think of Washington as having been de facto Soviet-occupied in this period, things start making a little more sense. I mentioned Lauchlin Currie at the White House, you had a man named Duncan Lee [a double agent assigned to spy on General Patton] advising the Wild Bill Donovan of the OSS, many others at the OSS, Franz Neumann, 1900-1954, on the German desk, for example. Alger Hiss very famously at the State Department. And, of course, there was also FDR's top advisor, Harry Hopkins, 1890-1946, who remains a very controversial figure. But I do a lot with Harry Hopkins in terms of pulling a dossier together. I did study it very deeply and for various, with various evidence in mind. I think he was a conscious agent but he certainly acted as if he were and effectively promoted the Soviet line to such a point that we had essentially a Soviet occupation even inside the White House because he lived there. He lived with Roosevelt for 3 and 1/2 years--breakfast, lunch, and dinner, in on everything, particularly in this intense war period. We still have this disconnect between what we now know that we were penetrated; we know these agents were there; we've had this archival confirmation of much of this, and we still think and we look back at the "Red Scare" and we snicker. Or we look back, "Oh, you saw commies under every bed," that kind of thing. I mean that's what automatically comes into everyone's head after this period, really decades, of this conditioning to look the other way, not to probe. "Red Baiter!" stop thinking about it. I mean it's really kind of an amazing information-op that has been, we've all sort of lived through. But when you go back and start reading the memoirs of the people who were experiencing at the time, the bitterness of what they were living through comes through . . . and I just like to mention Robert Stripling, the lead investigator on the House on Un-American Activities Committee when it opened its doors in 1938 under Representative Martin Dies, Democrat of Texas. Stanton Evans, who wrote the monumental work on Joseph McCarthy in recent years, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Joseph McCarthy and his Fight Against America's Enemies, 2007.
20:25. In Blacklisted by History, Evans writes that everything they said about Joseph McCarthy they said first about Martin Dies, which is something of a revelation again because I didn't know you had the same interest in exposing these networks, fascism and communism, in the late 1930s. Stripling worked for Dies and then later chairman for at least 10 years. He wrote a memoir, and he said the reason he wanted to write this memoir he said,
I wanted to tell in detail the price that men must pay for the dubious privilege of being reviled in print and on the air for their labors in what amounts to a necessary sewer project of communist investigations.
He goes on to say,
that this book is his attempt to outline without conjecture the scope of the Communist conspiracy against the government and the people of the United States, even though to do so is to invite the charge of fascist, Red Baiter, witch hunter, and "smear artist." To fail to do so is to capitulate to a resourceful enemy who can endure any counterattack except exposure."
21:37. Exposure. This is really the mechanism of the book is exposure. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, people, of course, know that the archives opened in Moscow briefly, selectively. At a certain point after Moscow archives begin to open, what we know as a Venona archives, open here 1995. I always find it quite interesting when you see that progression as to why the American government was cow into releasing some of these same types of documents that late, 50 years after the fact, is an interesting question why they wanted to keep these secrets so long but what the Venona archive is in 1939 when the Nazis and the Soviets had their friendship pact, Western Union was sending the Soviet cables, Embassy cables back to Russia. And the government ordered them to make copies. This is sort of early NSA data collection, and they just piled up by the thousands, by the hundreds of thousands. Really at a certain point in 1943 when we become allies during the war, the code breakers were told to start translating them in order for us to find a way to be better allies. This was actually the original intention. The code breakers not too long after actually began discovering that these cables, these diplomatic cables were actually day and date discussions and cable traffic related directly to Soviet espionage here in the United States. Coming to all of this information as a journalist and not as a historian, I told my editor at St Martin's that I've started a new genre called, investigative history, but he wasn't so sure we could go on with this. It's pretty intense but what I discovered was that the general history, the regular books that you'll find in the bookstore here, not intelligence histories but biographies, books about the war books, about Yalta, and so on, Cold War, they have not as a rule Incorporated the findings of the intelligence historians. It's as if all this work that has been done since the 1990s and the great scholars have gone into these archives and assembled them for us, they're around the store here somewhere, many of them their work is still off in a corner, almost like an academic boutique industry, it's over here, and the regular historians just keep on going without any correlation of this very important work. And that's why I could come along after the thousands of books that have been written about World War II in this period, on the Cold War and Roosevelt, and write something that seems new. This knitting together had not been done and I think that this vacuum is part of what I think of as an American betrayal, because at a certain point what we're looking at when you put this all together consciously or not, or consciously and not, because I think it's both, but Uncle Sam was actually covering up for the Russian bear.
24:42. Today we can ask his uncle Sam covering up for Islam as we support jihadists across the Middle East. It's hard not to wonder as we eradicate officially the study of Jihad from security agencies, the Pentagon, the military colleges and vacuum up everyone else's phone records, it's hard not to wonder, and I also wonder if ultimately we will find ourselves in some sort of cold war or hot war with Islam just as we did with the Soviet Union after World War II, and wonder how that ever happened? This is sort of the result of the same suppression of narrative that has been going on for so long there were purges of anti-communist records during World War II. There were purges of anti-communist personnel. A Soviet foreign minister in 19 43 actually presented a list to the United States government of anti-communist officials at the state department. I'm going to pause so that everybody can absorb anti-communist officials at the State Department they did exist until about this point when they were purged they were sent away they were sent to places like Iraq and Turkey which were not hot spots during World War II, and they were sent to Canada just to be out of the vicinity one of President Roosevelt's emissaries diplomatic emissaries during the war a man named George Earl, the former Pennsylvania Governor, he had come to the point where he realized that we weren't, that the Soviet Union was supplanting Nazi Germany with an even more totalitarian, more dangerous dictatorship. And when he discussed this with Roosevelt and wanted to bring it to the public's attention, he was redeployed to Samoa for the duration. So this is how, this is how things were done.
26:26. Flash forward to our time in 2011 we had similar pressures brought to bear by Muslim groups on the president's counterterrorism at the time advisor John Brennan the justice department Department of Homeland Security eradicate eliminate anti-islamic materials, "anti-islamic," the trainers. It was kind of a parallel, strange parallel to be living through again. Another parallel in the olden days, during World War II, officials were very worried about being offensive to Russians, offensive to Soviets. We have a mirror image today and the fears of being offensive to Islam, offensive to Muslims. But we called that victory we called that Victory back then and I just wondered as I was looking at all this material, what kind of victory for Liberty replaces one totalitarian monster with an even greater one? This is what happened when the Soviet Union supplanted Nazi Germany with its evil empire in Europe, and it took about 40 years for a president [Reagan] even to say the words "Evil Empire," and it was like the world exploded with this extremely banal statement. It should have been something almost in passing but it froze; it froze the debate because no one was supposed to notice. Now we claim, or we used to claim, I don't even know if we remember, but we claimed victory in a Cold War after a communist century that left 100 million people dead under communist regimes, according to the Black Book of Communism, 1997, and today Republicans in Congress don't, they have the majority; they can't muster the votes to defund what comes down to socialized medicine. So ideologically, who won? Who won?
In the Senate this week, sovereign borders are not even a point of debate. Citizenship is essentially worthless. The Constitution is in tatters, and you start sort of seeing a resemblance more to the sort of dream of Marxism-Leninism than anything else. So again but we call it victory, we're very happy, happy to call it victory, and you just wonder what it's all about.
28:32. General Wedemeyer would write in his 1958 memoir, "The irony of it all is that the Soviet Empire is largely one of our own creation." I think he was right, and I would argue that a similar kind of Soviet Empire of the mind took place here, and the penetration and the relationship of lies have been very instrumental in shaping many of the cultural ills that people want to dissect, whether it's cultural relativism or non-judgmentalism, these --isms but basically these theories that depend on a very loose notion of facts, morality, very relativistic kinds of things that come right away from this same relationship ideological accommodation that our government has made for so many decades.
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