An organization both military and civilian in structure, GLADIO was formed initially with the purpose to thwart Soviet-aligned, malicious domestic actors—be it illegal organizations or compromised governments—through local power brokers and national command structures.
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The United States, the Republic of Turkey, the Republic of Italy, and the United Kingdom are nations with some of the most developed experience in executing “stay-behind” operations both at home and abroad historically.
It’s amazing how the soviets would assassinate a specific target and be branded as evil demons, but the US can give a bunch of weapons to lunatics to shoot up a grocery store or bomb a train and be branded as saviors of democracy
I hope I live long enough to read decades out examinations of US Civil Religion. I honestly think the fact that Americans worship the institutions of government in a religious way is one of the most important factors of the last century and it’s part of why this entire evil country I live in should be nuked to oblivion
Do you have any links for where I can learn more about the US doing this? I know ofc they do it with foreign terrorist organisations all the time to fight russia etc., but do they do this domestically, or in other countries that they're not directly opposed to?
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It’s amazing how the soviets would assassinate a specific target and be branded as evil demons, but the US can give a bunch of weapons to lunatics to shoot up a grocery store or bomb a train and be branded as saviors of democracy
Democracy is the new replacement for Christianity. Any colonial crime can be justified if done in its name, no matter how brutal or nonsensical.
I hope I live long enough to read decades out examinations of US Civil Religion. I honestly think the fact that Americans worship the institutions of government in a religious way is one of the most important factors of the last century and it’s part of why this entire evil country I live in should be nuked to oblivion
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Do you have any links for where I can learn more about the US doing this? I know ofc they do it with foreign terrorist organisations all the time to fight russia etc., but do they do this domestically, or in other countries that they're not directly opposed to?
Here's a PDF of the book NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio & Terrorism in Western Europe
It's well sourced, academic but not too dry a read, very eye opening without going full :trueanon: so it's fairly lib friendly too.
The power of plausible deniability
My brother in Christ you are the one creating and funding these malicious actors