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Julian McFarlane: [https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/putin-the-kgb-genius] 
{{Quotebox-float|'''Putin: the KGB Genius?'''

As I continue working on the [[Putin]] book, fighting my way through a jungle of [[misinformation]] and [[disinformation]]. It is sometimes exhausting and just plain irritating to read [[the West]]ern [[political]] priesthood on [[Russia]] and Putin, [[lies]] piled upon [[false]]hood piled upon [[delusion]]. And lots of books.

On the other hand, I have to wade knee-deep in [[pseudo]] [[intellectual]] shit to get an understanding to the size and extent of one of [[history]]’s greatest exercises in [[demonization]], [[jingoism]] and [[xenophobic]], if not [[racist]] [[nationalism]].

Oddly enough this is why [[Timothy Snyder|Snyder]] calls the “politics of eternity” in which national leaders manufacture a myth of permanent threat, convincing their citizens that a fundamental [[evil]] [[civilization]] is plotting their demise. Of course, [[Timothy Snyder]] thinks that [[society]] is [[Russia]] fanning the flames of [[hatred]], when in fact it is the [[US]] and it [[allies]].

Frye, Weiss, and Gessen all sing in harmony, along with a choir of millions.

In this [[eschatology]], Russia is [[Hell]]. and Putin is [[Satan]].

To argue otherwise is [[heresy]] and deserves the rack....}}