Koch-Putin Non-Linear Warfare

[ancianita]

I. Non-linear warfare is a good way to describe the disruptions to our country. Adam Curtis' 2014 documentary on Non-Linear Warfare directs our attention toward what Putin began. Russian cyberwar operatives call it hybrid warfare -- unorthodox, non-military takeovers of others' assets.

Thanks to Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America (2017, recent National Book Award finalist) we learn of 20th Century civil rights hater and ‘rational racist,’ James M. Buchanan and his program with Fred Koch's boys, Charles and David, to get rid of pesky democratic majority rule.

Trump is now the post-bipartisan player who steps forward to take credit for what's been in the works for decades.

Behind the fake presidency curtain, you'll see that ...

The Charles Koch-James M. Buchanan network has grown three times more operatives on its payroll than the entire Republican party in 2015.

The Koch-Buchanan network operates out of the Mercator Center’s Institute for Humane Studies, at George Mason University, Arlington, VA. The institute still promotes ‘rational racism’ and the Austrian economics spread by members of the Mount Pelerin Society of Europe. Buchanan's training schools, fed by Koch money, create foundations, think tanks for their operatives, who also work in statehouses and universities across fifty states.

The Koch network goal: to establish minority rule over the majority. Think white ruled South Africa before Nelson Mandela.

Koch himself has admitted that his ‘revolution" would not have gotten as far as it has today if his network had been transparent. So it has taken on layers of aliases.

II. In the absence of all the FBI's evidence of Washington's failure to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution, below is a list of what the Kochs' non-linear warfare (money, academics, politics) looks like so far.

For 40 years (and since Buchanan's death in 2013) the Koch network has put forward politicians and academics to run its stealth program, instead:

1. Use James M. Buchanan's "political economy" philosophy (developed as racist cover against the Civil Rights Act) -- a minority and women dominance/exclusion ideology. Then get financial backers, Fred Koch's boys, Charles and David Koch, whose billions pay a national army of radical operatives to run think tanks, university curricula, campaigns, rallies;

2. Convince the public that the billionaire class is being exploited by the "moocher" majority of Americans, so they all should demand tax “reform” and eliminate almost all government but the military;

3. Put Citizens United to work:
Buy governments, state and federal; then impose ALEC legal templates from the Koch toolbox, to write bills to privatize anything, end women's reproductive rights, defund public schools, smash union contracts and bargaining.
ALEC builds Koch's "proxy army" (usually not lawyers themselves) to be the elite minority who rule the majority in America.
ALEC is wholly paid for by Charles Koch's State Policy Network.

4. Strip, at federal levels, Americans' benefits — education, health care; privatize Social Security and Medicare.

5. Manipulate citizens to criminalize each other, fight against each other's bias confirmation "bubbles, crisis-drive everyone to doubt and hate government; call for white nationalism and race war, foment random mass murders. Putin's hybrid (the Russian version of "non-linear warfare) cyberwar troll farms get to help for at least the last three years.

6. Privatize the Post Office, every public institution and national park; increase all fees for their use, “close” due to “lack of use."

7. Deregulate all government oversight on national land, assets, infrastructure, business; gut the State Department, EPA and the rest of government.

8. Suppress the voter rolls of all fifty states by gerrymander, voter roll purges, and disallow voter ID's, arrest or prison records; then do Crosscheck, electronic machine or server tampering. Use Russian troll farm interference to hack servers, campaign databases, create fake political organizations and rallies.

9. Buy the means of media production to character assassinate Democratic party opponents, promote distraction, deflection, wealth, strong man ideologies and religions.

10. Put in place billionaire minority rule --
first, rewrite the US Constitution through a convention to make minority rule ironclad; then run this country for billionaires, since for them, capitalism IS liberty.

The current Koch-GOP network are, literally, a fifth column, according to Nancy MacLean. Now we learn more of their external help from Putin and the Kremlin. To the Koch or Putin networks -- call them cabals, mafia, whatever -- unrestrained capitalism IS freedom. But. They only want liberty for their billionaire oligarchs and elites. Which is why DACA can get kicked out, but Russian oligarch anchor babies get dual passports through a hush-hush program enabled by Trump hotels in Miami.

The Koch and Putin networks don't care WHO rules; they want to change THE rules.

The Koch-Putin endgame is to turn all of America into poor versions of Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Kansas -- a petro-colonial state with infrastructure.

If Americans don't like it, tough. The Ukrainians, Middle East and Eastern Europeans didn't like it, either.

Ask the Kochs. Ask Putin. Americans brought this on their own degenerate, undeserving selves -- blacks, Latinos, women, whites, anyone who expects help from government -- because they are the WEAK. Putin operatives technologically facilitate 'identity' conflict drama, now using Trump and the NRA.

Anyone who resists them -- the young, leakers, resisters, Al Franken, Democratic Party donors, the FBI -- is The Enemy.

III. M. Buchanan wrote Chile's constitutional rule that required a super-majority -- 2/3 -- vote for any new laws. Chile acquired a “locks and bolts” constitution that enabled the capitalist junta's rule.

Watch for media reports of ‘revolutionary reform' —
"constitutional reforms" (stripping old civil rights out)
"modernization," (privatization and purges in education, media),
"self financing," (everyone provides for his/her own medical, schooling, retirement) -- while you are told to rejoice in your restored individual "freedoms" to own weapons, consume, produce, save and invest.

If you get even a whiff of talk about our Constitution that changes "checks and balances," to "locks and bolts” against majority voting, it is sponsored by the Kochs, enabled by Putin, no matter who else the ‘front’ men are.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Oh thank you for this post,

again many of us have been screaming about how the Koch Family and Friends have been working overtime under mining our Democracy for decades.


Putting this statement out their. When was the Last time you seen or heard a Negative Story in t.he Media,outside of Raw Story,TPM,or maybe Tom Hartmann,concerning the Koch Industries or the Gun Lobby.


BTW,is anyone reporting on the Student Protest in front of the White House on MSM?

[ancianita]

2. The Kochs are working overtime right now to set up govt. to do their bidding before the FBI hits.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Short answer is yes so agree.

One thing that we can not forget is this, the Koch Brothers are members of more than one of Trump's Golf Clubs.

[TwistOneUp]

3. Very scary

This plan is very scary, both because of the plan ifself, and because I'm watching it's implementation.

[ancianita]

4. Even "luck" has helped global authoritarian planners. This slow rollout is, indeed, scary.

My belief is never to be afraid of your genetic inheritance of anger. Its use, channeled into fight, flight and creative resistance activities, got us this far, and it will continue to serve us as we learn how to convert it to promote a good end for the story of us.

In the meantime, others who don't care about the outcome for the masses on Earth are developing ways to shuttle to and from the planet.

[Exotica]

6. I have been following this for years, since I first came across Vladislav Surkov (Grey Cardinal of

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How Putin Is Reinventing Warfare

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/05/05/how-putin-is-reinventing-warfare/

The Kremlin, according to Barack Obama, is stuck in the “old ways,” trapped in Cold War or even 19th century mindsets. But look closer at the Kremlin’s actions during the crisis in Ukraine and you begin to see a very 21st century mentality, manipulating transnational financial interconnections, spinning global media, and reconfiguring geo-political alliances. Could it be that the West is the one caught up in the “old ways,” while the Kremlin is the geopolitical avant-garde, informed by a dark, subversive reading of globalization?

The Kremlin’s approach might be called “non-linear war,” a term used in a short story written by one of Putin’s closest political advisors, Vladislav Surkov, which was published under his pseudonym, Nathan Dubovitsky, just a few days before the annexation of Crimea. Surkov is credited with inventing the system of “managed democracy” that has dominated Russia in the 21st century, and his new portfolio focuses on foreign policy. This time, he sets his new story in a dystopian future, after the “fifth world war.”

Surkov writes: “It was the first non-linear war. In the primitive wars of the 19th and 20th centuries it was common for just two sides to fight. Two countries, two blocks of allies. Now four coalitions collided. Not two against two, or three against one. All against all.”

This is a world where the old geo-political paradigms no longer hold. As the Kremlin faces down the West, it is indeed gambling that old alliances like the EU and NATO mean less in the 21st century than the new commercial ties it has established with nominally “Western” companies, such as BP, Exxon, Mercedes, and BASF. Meanwhile, many Western countries welcome corrupt financial flows from the post-Soviet space; it is part of their economic models, and not one many want disturbed. So far, the Kremlin’s gamble seems to be paying off, with financial considerations helping to curb sanctions. Part of the rationale for fast-tracking Russia’s inclusion into the global economy was that interconnection would be a check on aggression. But the Kremlin has figured out that this can be flipped: Interconnection also means that Russia can get away with aggression.


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Non-Linear Warfare and Reflexive Control - NATO Defense College

http://www.ndc.nato.int/download/downloads.php?icode=467



Redefining Hybrid Warfare: Russia’s Nonlinear War against the West

http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1538&context=jss



What is Hybrid Warfare?

https://globalsecurityreview.com/hybrid-and-non-linear-warfare-systematically-erases-the-divide-between-war-peace/


Conventional Western concepts of war are incompatible and fundamentally misaligned with the realities of conflict in the twenty-first century. The emergence of a unipolar post-Cold War world order has resulted in a significant paradigm shift.

This change now requires the U.S. and its allies to adopt a new legal, psychological, and strategic understanding of warfare and use of force, particularly by state actors. The term “hybrid war” (military institutions use the term “hybrid threat”) connotes the use of conventional military force supported by irregular and cyber warfare tactics. In practical application, the Russian concept of “nonlinear conflict” exemplifies hybrid warfare strategy.

Linear conflicts are defined by a sequential progression of a planned strategy by opposing sides, whereas nonlinear conflict is the simultaneous deployment of multiple, complementary military and non-military warfare tactics. A nonlinear war is fought when a state employs conventional and irregular military forces in conjunction with psychological, economic, political, and cyber assaults. Confusion and disorder ensue when weaponized information exacerbates the perception of insecurity in the populace as political, social, and cultural identities are pitted against one another.

This “blurring” divides influential interest groups and powerful political organizations by exploiting identity politics and allegiances. Additionally, nonlinear warfare tactics act as a deterrent towards a more powerful ally of the besieged state.

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The Hidden Author of Putinism
How Vladislav Surkov invented the new Russia

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/hidden-author-putinism-russia-vladislav-surkov/382489/

“I am the author, or one of the authors, of the new Russian system,” Vladislav Surkov told us by way of introduction. On this spring day in 2013, he was wearing a white shirt and a leather jacket that was part Joy Division and part 1930s commissar. “My portfolio at the Kremlin and in government has included ideology, media, political parties, religion, modernization, innovation, foreign relations, and ...”—here he pauses and smiles—“modern art.” He offers to not make a speech, instead welcoming the Ph.D. students, professors, journalists, and politicians gathered in an auditorium at the London School of Economics to pose questions and have an open discussion. After the first question, he talks for almost 45 minutes, leaving hardly any time for questions after all.

It’s his political system in miniature: democratic rhetoric and undemocratic intent.

As the former deputy head of the presidential administration, later deputy prime minister and then assistant to the president on foreign affairs, Surkov has directed Russian society like one great reality show. He claps once and a new political party appears. He claps again and creates Nashi, the Russian equivalent of the Hitler Youth, who are trained for street battles with potential pro-democracy supporters and burn books by unpatriotic writers on Red Square. As deputy head of the administration he would meet once a week with the heads of the television channels in his Kremlin office, instructing them on whom to attack and whom to defend, who is allowed on TV and who is banned, how the president is to be presented, and the very language and categories the country thinks and feels in. Russia’s Ostankino TV presenters, instructed by Surkov, pluck a theme (oligarchs, America, the Middle East) and speak for 20 minutes, hinting, nudging, winking, insinuating, though rarely ever saying anything directly, repeating words like “them” and “the enemy” endlessly until they are imprinted on the mind.

They repeat the great mantras of the era: The president is the president of “stability,” the antithesis to the era of “confusion and twilight” in the 1990s. “Stability”—the word is repeated again and again in a myriad seemingly irrelevant contexts until it echoes and tolls like a great bell and seems to mean everything good; anyone who opposes the president is an enemy of the great God of “stability.” “Effective manager,” a term quarried from Western corporate speak, is transmuted into a term to venerate the president as the most “effective manager” of all. “Effective” becomes the raison d’être for everything: Stalin was an “effective manager” who had to make sacrifices for the sake of being “effective.” The words trickle into the streets: “Our relationship is not effective” lovers tell each other when they break up. “Effective,” “stability”: No one can quite define what they actually mean, and as the city transforms and surges, everyone senses things are the very opposite of stable, and certainly nothing is “effective,” but the way Surkov and his puppets use them the words have taken on a life of their own and act like falling axes over anyone who is in any way disloyal.

One of Surkov’s many nicknames is the “political technologist of all of Rus.” Political technologists are the new Russian name for a very old profession: viziers, gray cardinals, wizards of Oz. They first emerged in the mid-1990s, knocking on the gates of power like pied pipers, bowing low and offering their services to explain the world and whispering that they could reinvent it. They inherited a very Soviet tradition of top-down governance and tsarist practices of co-opting anti-state actors (anarchists in the 19th century, neo-Nazis and religious fanatics now), all fused with the latest thinking in television, advertising, and black PR. Their first clients were actually Russian modernizers: In 1996 the political technologists, coordinated by Boris Berezovsky, the oligarch nicknamed the “Godfather of the Kremlin” and the man who first understood the power of television in Russia, managed to win then-President Boris Yeltsin a seemingly lost election by persuading the nation that he was the only man who could save it from a return to revanchist Communism and new fascism. They produced TV scare-stories of looming pogroms and conjured fake Far Right parties, insinuating that the other candidate was a Stalinist (he was actually more a socialist democrat), to help create the mirage of a looming “red-brown” menace.

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The Literary Intrigues of Putin’s Puppet Master

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/01/22/the-literary-intrigues-of-putins-puppet-master/

In the summer of 2009, a slender novel caused a literary sensation in Moscow. Centering on a poetry-loving gangster-cum-book publisher wracked by Hamletian perplexities over a possible snuff film, it unloaded a darkly absurdist, but caustically knowing, satire on the corruptions and machinations of post-Soviet Russia, with a whirligig of literary remixes and references.

What really triggered the sensation, though, over Okolonolya, or Almost Zero (subtitled gangsta fiction, in English, in the Russian edition), was the identity of its author, an unknown named Natan Dubovitsky. Dubovitsky was soon suspected, courtesy of an anonymous tip from the novel’s publisher to the St. Petersburg newspaper Vedomosti, of being a pseudonym for Vladislav Surkov, who was then the Russian presidential deputy chief of staff. At the time, this Kremlin ideologue was, arguably, the second- or third-most powerful man in the country. It was Surkov, variously called a “political technologist,” the “gray cardinal,” or a “puppet master,” who had created and orchestrated Putin’s so-called sovereign democracy—the stage-managed, sham-democratic Russia, the ruthlessly stabilized, still-rotten Russia that Almost Zero was savaging. Almost Zero is now available to English readers in a limited edition from an adventurous small publisher in Brooklyn, Inpatient Press. Inpatient takes the leap and credits Surkov as the author. (And, in the spirit of Almost Zero itself, it is publishing the novel without authorization.)

Plenty of politicos write novels; but not many write eviscerating self-satires. It was as though Karl Rove had taken the knife to his and George W. Bush’s America in, say, 2005. Surkov, however, wasn’t, and isn’t, simply a Rove. The documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis calls him “a hero of our time” (in praise and opprobrium) for turning Russia’s political reality into “a bewildering, constantly changing piece of theater.” For supplying an early model, if you will, for Donald Trump’s media-savvy tactics of chaos and confusion. And what a perversely fascinating, complex figure emerges from the details of Surkov’s biography: an arch-propagandist of power and an arty outsider, an authoritarian’s right hand and a bohemian aesthete whose education included studying theater at the Moscow Institute of Culture in the 1980s (he was expelled for fighting). As the USSR was collapsing, Surkov became the public-relations mastermind for oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s pioneering business, Menatep Bank, which was where Surkov met his wife, Natalya; soon, he was heading up Russia’s fledging association of ad men. Denied a partnership in business after Khodorkovsky’s ill-fated acquisition of the oil giant Yukos in the 1990s—Khodorkovsky ended up in prison during Putin’s taming of the oligarchs—Surkov left for a position with Alfa Bank (of Trump dossier notoriety, for alleged aid in Russian meddling in the 2016 election; the owners are suing for defamation). He then ran a major TV network, before devoting his image-making and lobbying talents, first, to then President Boris Yeltsin, and, subsequently, to Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.

Even in government, Surkov found time to write essays praising Bollywood movies and Joan Miró in the pages of Russian Pioneer, a glitzy intellectual magazine—which went on to publish Almost Zero in a special edition. He composed lyrics for the Russian rock band Agata Kristi (whose lead singer later sued a critic for calling him “a trained poodle for Surkov”). Famously an admirer of Tupac Shakur, Surkov can also quote Allen Ginsberg’s poetry by heart, albeit in heavily-accented English (there’s a cringe-making recording online of him reciting Ginsberg’s “Supermarket Sutra” in full). In his spacious Kremlin office, photos of Putin and Medvedev hung beside the likenesses of Jorge Luis Borges and John Lennon, Che Guevara and a young Joseph Brodsky, together with Tupac in a hoodie, Obama looking pensive, and Bismarck looking “Iron Cross.”

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[ancianita]

7. Key phrase: democratic rhetoric toward undemocratic intent. This is great stuff. Thanks!

Sections of the global puzzle of players are falling into place.

[Exotica]

8. it is all about creating a fog of war environment without actual kinetic weapons being used

You churn up all the inherent pre-existing divisions within a society and get them to turn on each other. The indictment was just the tip of the iceberg, the actual Russian bot efforts named were all over the place and massively simplistic in many instances, see this:



The Russians involved did not even understand basic Red state, Blue state, Purple state nomenclature, and a lot of their actions (per the indictment itself) was simple money scams (not related to the election at all) and identity thefts.

That all said, in nonlinear warfare, you absolutely COUNT on the secondary, tertiary reactions as well. Look at how you now have internal Democratic infighting yet again over Bernie with many saying (via implication) that he could possibly be an unwitting or even willing Russian agent (I am in NO way a Sanders fangirl, but until I see absolute evidence I will not go to the level of assailing him as a Russia agent). Look at how much outright disruption that Putin got for a couple million dollars (versus the billions spent by actual American entities in a post-Citizens United world). It is all designed to tear the American political ecosphere apart more than it already is. I fear it will just keep on increasing, to the great detriment of social democracy in the US.

[ancianita]

9. This is excellent. If it's all as commodified as you say, then there's a lot of democratic

disruption of "design" ahead.

[Exotica]

12. Your OP is superb btw

Cannot believe no one is recc'ing it

[ancianita]

13. Welcome to DU, where you learn whether or not you are representative of Democrats.

We are big. From everywhere. We are inclusive and grapple with difference.

I can't even define Democrats, not even from my experience in dealing this party's range and depth in content knowledge, commitment to politics and governance, and being about the story of us.

[poboy2]

11. Great post.

Even more upsetting is how this was encouraged and used as a force multiplier by one of the contestants.

[ancianita]

14. We in America have a lot to learn about toughen up to other world powers.

[poboy2]

10. excellent post. -eom