Yuri Bezmenov: How To Brainwash And Poison A Nation With Bullshit Wokeism

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Putin Using Western Wokeness As A Weapon: WSJ Op-Ed

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wokeness-is-putins-weapon-ukraine-western-values-abortion-climate-change-human-rights-protectionism-decadence-xi-jinping-revisionist-powers-11657569787

Left-wing wokeism is one of America's greatest weaknesses, which both
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are using as a weapon against the West,
according to a Monday Wall Street Journal Op-Ed by Hudson Institute
Fellow Walter Russell Mead.

After suggesting that Ukraine is giving Russia more than they
bargained for on the battlefield thanks to "Western high-tech arms"
among other things, Mead notes that Putin has had the most success in
the domains of economics and politics, giving the West a run for its
money.

    Fears that a Russian gas embargo could cripple European economies
and leave comfortable German burghers freezing in the dark next winter
have replaced hopes that Western sanctions would bring Moscow to its
knees. Thoroughly intimidated by the consequences of an economic war
with Russia, Germany is beginning to weasel out of its pledges to
increase defense spending. -WSJ

According to Mead, hopes that the world would unite against Russian
aggression has "fizzled," adding: "Led by China and joined by India
and Brazil, countries around the world are choosing trade with Russia
over solidarity with the Group of Seven."

The author suggests that in order to prevent "another major setback"
such as those in Georgia, Crimea, the South China Sea and the Middle
East, the West must "recalibrate" against the "revisionist powers"
(China, Russia and Iran), and "rethink assumptions and conventional
doctrines that have demonstrably failed."

The West also needs to understand that the revisionist powers "seek
the destruction of what they see as an American-led, West-dominated
global hegemony," which is "decadent and vulnerable."

Specifically, there are several vulnerabilities the West needs to
protect against; including protectionism ("which reduces the economic
attraction of the WWestern system for developing countries"), and
self-righteous "values-based" entitlements "with its origins in the
age of European imperialism."

    Why else, people ask, are Britain and France permanent members of
the United Nations Security Council, while there is only one permanent
member from Asia, and none from Africa, the Islamic world or Latin
America? What possible justification is there for including Italy and
Canada in the exclusive G-7?

    Conventional defenders of the Western world order respond by
touting its commitment to universal values such as human rights and
the fight against climate change. The current world order may, they
acknowledge, be historically rooted in Western imperial power, but as
an “empire of values,” the Western world order deserves the support of
everyone who cares about humanity’s future. -WSJ

Wokeness as a weakness

After laying out the current situation, Mead writes that "the West's
increasingly "woke" values agenda is not as credible or popular as
liberals hope," noting that President Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia
this week puts America's leftist hypocrisy on full display - reminding
the world "of the limits on Western commitments to human rights."

    Many values dear to the hearts of Western cultural leaders (LGBTQ
rights, abortion on demand, freedom of speech understood as allowing
unchecked Internet pornography) puzzle and offend billions of people
around the world who haven’t kept up with the latest hot trends on
American campuses. -WSJ

Mead also notes that woke Western banks are pissing off 'elites and
the public at large' in developing countries over blocking financing
for fossil-fuel extraction as part of their virtue-signaling ESG
agenda.

What's more, liberal West's "new, post-Judeo-Christian values agenda
divides the West," as culture wars at home "don't promote unity
overseas."

Also, Western leftists have totally lost their shit in front of the world.

    Completely unhinged pic.twitter.com/7H2Z8E5vLh
    — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 1, 2022

Bringing it home, Mead writes:

    The moral and political confusion of the contemporary West is the
secret weapon that the leaders of Russia and China believe will bring
the American world order to its knees. Messrs. Putin and Xi might be
wrong; one certainly hopes that they are. But their bet on Western
decadence has been paying off handsomely for more than a decade.
Western survival and global flourishing require more thought and
deeper change than the Biden administration and its European allies
can currently imagine. -WSJ

As we've noted many times, Americans were explicitly warned about
weakening the West by KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov.

How do we cure wokeism and actors who peddle it to score points?