Submission statement: Public anxiety across Western countries regarding a looming “civil war” is not an organic development; it’s an engineered psychological operation designed to manufacture consent for ubiquitous surveillance. The blueprint traces directly to spooks like David Betz, an advisor to security agencies and lead on the Pentagon’s Minerva Initiative, who pioneered ‘Propaganda 2.0’ to weaponise social platforms and astroturf online consensus. Betz is now all over the podcast sphere screeching about how civil war is not just coming but already here.
The publishing hub for this narrative lies in *Military Strategy Magazine*, an outfit based in Tel Aviv and founded by a former fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (closely linked with the Israeli surveillance apparatus) alongside a British Army Intelligence Corps veteran. By importing foreign counter-insurgency doctrines and deploying psychological warfare units to flood social feeds with a hyperreal spectacle of civil unrest, state actors create a pretext for dismantling civil liberties and establishing an all-encompassing digital panopticon
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Submission statement: Public anxiety across Western countries regarding a looming “civil war” is not an organic development; it’s an engineered psychological operation designed to manufacture consent for ubiquitous surveillance. The blueprint traces directly to spooks like David Betz, an advisor to security agencies and lead on the Pentagon’s Minerva Initiative, who pioneered ‘Propaganda 2.0’ to weaponise social platforms and astroturf online consensus. Betz is now all over the podcast sphere screeching about how civil war is not just coming but already here.
The publishing hub for this narrative lies in *Military Strategy Magazine*, an outfit based in Tel Aviv and founded by a former fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (closely linked with the Israeli surveillance apparatus) alongside a British Army Intelligence Corps veteran. By importing foreign counter-insurgency doctrines and deploying psychological warfare units to flood social feeds with a hyperreal spectacle of civil unrest, state actors create a pretext for dismantling civil liberties and establishing an all-encompassing digital panopticon
literally this is everyone’s fantasy atm