How do Neoconservative Maidan coup leaders launder their propaganda through Western news around the world?
Let’s look at family and work connections involving a key media source
Where do Western corporate media sources get their insights into wars in which America is entangled? What is the most important source of analysis of war strategy and intelligence around the world? If you read such publications as the Financial Times, the Guardian, Der Spiegel, or the Wiener Zeitung, then you probably came across analysis from the Institute for the Study of War, detailing how they believe the military operations in Ukraine is progressing. They often talk about how Russia is struggling, downplaying the progress they are making on battlefield attrition and movement, while telling readers how much potential the Ukrainian forces have in defending the the Kiev-regime-held territory and eventually pushing back against Russian advances. If you knew what kind of organization ISW is, then you would understand where this bias and skewing of perspective comes from. I will give you all the details, including who runs and finances it.
Dr. Kimberly Kagan founded the organization in 2007 in order to “[focus] on military operations, enemy threats, and political trends in diverse conflict zones.” She grew up as the daughter of a Jewish accountant in New York and studied history in university. During her experience at university, she met her husband Frederick Kagan, another history student who also came from a Jewish background. Most of her studies went into classical civilization until graduate school, at which point she specialized more and more in military history.
Kimberly Kagan posing with her ally in the government, General David Petraeus, one of the main commanders in Iraq and leader of CENTCOM.
Her husband Frederick Kagan studied Eastern European history and the Soviet Union in university and likewise specialized more and more in military history and affairs in graduate school. This is similar to his brother Robert Kagan, who likewise studied history in university, also at Yale, while subsequently getting more and more involved in more political matters as graduate studies progressed. Robert Kagan shares his love for history with his wife Victoria Nuland, who also comes from a Jewish background.
Frederick Kagan with wife Kimberly Kagan touring Iraq while policies they inspired were inflicted upon the country.
Victoria Nuland was the principal American representative during the Maidan coup in Ukraine, having acted as Vice President Biden’s ground facilitator during the events. As can be heard in a leaked phone-call between her and the American ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, she was intimately involved in using her position in the American government to choose who would be in the government of Ukraine.
Victoria Nuland with Pyatt and the Ukrainian members of government she was installing and configuring on behalf of the American government.
Robert Kagan, her husband, cofounded with William Kristol the Project for the New American Century, another think tank, which was the quintessential neoconservative organization in the 1990s, and was instrumental in pushing for the War on Terror and the invasions in the Middle East, having gotten its members and supporters into the Bush Administration. He recently wrote a piece for Foreign Affairs, the preeminent journal of the Transatlanticist American foreign policy establishment. In that piece, he said Russia was provoked into attacking Ukraine. But it was not provoked by NATO expansion. No. It was provoked by the American inability to effectively exercise its power. Thus we see how those in his intellectual cohort push for more American power with a propagandistic zeal.
Robert Kagan (left) and Hillary Clinton’s Vice Presidential pick Tim Kaine (center) at the Brookings Institute.
His brother Frederick Kagan wrote in Time Magazine that the Russian military operations were the desperate attempt by a Russian dictator to gather any remaining Russian scraps to continue his operations in Ukraine. He doesn’t have anything to say about Zelensky’s desperate fantasies of victory. Nor does he say a word about the hysterics of his spokesman Arestovych. Thus we can also see the omissions that result in his analysis being effective propaganda as well.
And then Frederick’s wife, Kimberly Kagan, runs the ISW, which purports to offer nonpartisan analysis of war and conflict. Do these pronouncements seem nonpartisan? No, they seem to be the best efforts of intellectual propagandists. But their intellectual biases aren’t even the only palpably concerning aspects of the organization. The organization derives its funding from defense contractors like Raytheon, the company for whom the current Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was CEO. And they also receive support from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which was created after 9/11 as a kind of adjunct to American and Israeli intelligence agencies. The Israeli government even admits they have a direct relationship to the organization. Thus we have a nexus of influence not only driven by nepotistic and incestuous support for government action, but also supported by hard governmental power.
This government action is supported by intellectual zealots acting as bulwarks of propaganda for American and Western Globalist power. Their opinions are spread around the world through the Institute for the Study of War. When you see ISW’s pronouncements, it begs the question of how much those words reflect the words their relatives and friends in government want you to hear. They could in fact come straight from the Biden state department from a sister-in-law.
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Victoria Nuland is actually half-Jewish. If you were writing about, for example, Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński, would you refer to his Polish Catholic background as informing his staunch anti-Soviet (or anti-Russia) stance? Something tells me not.
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