💥 US & UK military deployed psyop tactics against Americans since 2016

Michael Shellenberger claims the US and UK military have deployed psyop tactics against Americans since 2016, echoing strategies from the War on Terror. He alleges that after honing counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and counter-populism methods in the Middle East during the Arab Spring and in Eastern Europe via color revolutions—using social media to foment unrest for regime change and censorship to suppress dissent—these tactics were turned inward.

Shellenberger points to Russiagate, a conspiracy theory alleging Trump was a Russian asset controlled via blackmail, as an early example. He also highlights proactive influence ops, like the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, calling it "severely illegal," alongside broader intelligence community mobilization.

In a new study Shellenberger documents how the Agency for International Development (USAID) has, over 15 years, co-opted independent investigative journalism in Europe and globally through groups like OCCRP, aiming to control information and major media narratives.

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