The realm of psychological warfare is where fascists have always truly excelled. There is a classic Nazi tactic of portraying the perpetrator of extermination as the hapless victim, the only ones deserving of any sympathy in the face of the "horde".
Following the defeat of Nazi Germany, US imperialism claimed itself as the opposite of Nazism while at the very same time it integrated Nazi counterinsurgency into its own scorched-earth genocidal global regime. In their new mythology “Only Amerika could defend the world from nazism”, thus every “enemy state” and revolutionary peoples became “worse than Hitler.”
Anyone whose historical memory dissents from these fascist enforcers is repressed and labelled an “(insert leader here) apologist”. Meanwhile imperialist states and monopoly capitalists sponsor “historical remembrance” institutions that portray Nazis as sympathetic anti-communist heroes of struggles for “integral” nationalist identity against the non-European (non-human) “hordes”.1
To justify this, each and every Nazi clique fabricates a unique victim origin story to cover for their loser-conquistador past. It is crude: they portray themselves as the only and greatest victims of a unique struggle between good and evil, (western) civilization and barbarism which can only be won through glorification of their cause and its heroes.
As with every moralist construct, the origin story is ardently anti-political. You certainly aren’t supposed to ask what a “free, independent Ukraine” led by Stephan Bandera and his “Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists” entails!
This is a central aspect of fascist psychological warfare: to assassinate politics through ideological weaponry. Replacing politics and in particular its dangerous class edge with "entertainment" as the doctrinal source of values and customs along with an emphasis on the validity of the imperialist regime and the “democracy” that they control.
The Nazis see the world as a hierarchical food chain with wars of stronger predators upon weaker prey. And their military strategy has always placed a premium on what amerikan military analysts call psychological warfare, which the Nazi Germans called “Weltanschauungskrieg” literally “worldview warfare”.2 Euro-humanism is mobilized for this kind of war in order to differentiate the “barbarians” (peoples who must be ground to dust as a matter of political-economic necessity) from the “protectors of democracy” who are fundamentally incapable of committing any comparable form of “crime.” After destroying Libya, NATO declared that it was impossible for it to commit war crimes; while its targets are always conveniently tarred as “war criminals” led by “devils.”3
The imperialist forces can commit the most heinous war crimes and then erase them, or even worse blame the “barbarians” for it. Such is the case when the US lied about chemical weapons attacks in Syria4, and again when they razed the city of Raqqa and blamed it on the Russian air force.5
When imperialists, through their sophisticated propaganda system mass-disseminate images of atrocities allegedly committed by their antagonists, the result among the captive audience is disorientation culminating in an intensely emotional and (preferably) material rallying for “solidarity” and “mutual aid” with US-backed proxy forces.
Further if 'culture war' is about automatically adopting signifiers (not so much 'taking positions') opposite ones enemies, then it is easy to get leftists to take up these substantively reactionary positions in support of empire through reverse psychology e.g. associating opposition to NATO-Nazism with the Republican Party.
The Psychological Warfare of the 4th Reich (United States of Amerika) has become exceptionally non-linear but the basic principles have remained the same.
Modern psychological warfare weaponizes social media and NGO’s. Caitlin Johnstone concludes that6:
Truly, one of the most under-appreciated and overwhelmingly powerful forces on this earth is the U.S. imperial propaganda machine. The ability to manipulate public thought, not just within the United States but across vast swaths of nations, has allowed it to manufacture international consensus for whatever agendas it wishes to advance in a way that eclipses the collective organizing power of official international bodies like the United Nations.
In short: the amerikan people, and the entire world are under constant attack by “Weltanschauungskrieg” super-powered by a global communications infrastructure that is controlled by the United States Department of Defense.
"We have the pernicious crisis of truth with the pollution of the news media and fake news. We are seeing a system of representation, prevarication, and suppression of reality that is imposed by algorithms of new technologies of communication for the convenience of the most powerful.
The manipulation of information and emotions is only part of the problem. We're seeing a global security surveillance state that deprives citizens of privacy and true information turning our democracies into infocracies."
-Venezuelan Foreign Minister Carlos Tortosa; United Nations General Assembly Speech September 25, 2022
In Context
This week:
The people of Donbass, Kherson, and Zaporozhye overwhelmingly chose to rejoin their motherland so that they can finally escape the clutches of NATO-backed Ukranian nazis.7
Millions of Iranians celebrated their revolutionary Government defeating a US backed coup attempt.8 (Image above)
The zionist occupation forces launched an invasion across Palestine's occupied West Bank, particularly Jenin. At least 4 freedom fighters were martyred and over dozens were injured. The occupation military openly deployed drone strike warfare against the people and their resistance.9
The Cuban people voted 2:1 in favor of a new family code protecting the rights of parents, children, gays, and the elderly.10
The Haitian people entered their 6th week of country-wide uprising against the US, CORE group occupation of their country.11
The US government--many thousands of miles from any of its own borders--sabotaged two pipelines and blamed it on Russia.12 Poland said "Thank you USA".13
If you’re an amerikan and you’re wondering why your news and social media have been telling you otherwise, just remember that you’re living in the 4th Reich.
The Victims of Communism Memorial being one of the most absurd examples of such organizations.
"Fact-Checkers” are even rewriting history to say NATO bombers only killed 100 civilians. Conveniently, all of their sources are US media outlets and NGO’s.
Or When the US blamed their war crimes on Gaddafi (Source)
The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya, while blaming the damage on Gaddafi himself. Since then, the country’s water infrastructure – and the suffering of its people – has only deteriorated further.
US Bombs Syrian Bridges: When Does this American Carnage Stop?
Syria: Time has come to shed light on US coalition crimes in Raqqa
US-Led Coalition Commits a New Massacre in Raqqa
Imperialist source blaming Putin for bombing Raqqa: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/putin-airstrikes-syrian-war-assad-ukraine/
Now Media Overlooked US War Crimes In Raqqa but Decried the Liberation of Aleppo
Iranians rally to decry foreign-backed riots, desecration of sanctities
People in Mashahd, Hamedan hold rallies against rioters
“News and photos you will never see on western hypocrisy media.”
Dirty money: Meet the US agent driving the CIA-led riots in Iran
The murky web of on and offline actors targeting Iran
Twitter army and terror squads: Iran’s latest 'revolution' shows its true colors