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Russian Fear Western Psychic Attack

Axxman300

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Whelp...looks like they're on to us:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/03/russia-western-psychic-attacks-mystics-astrology-putin-ukraine/

But the Russians aren’t simply worried about the usual wartime propaganda, like sneaky radio broadcasts or underground newspapers. Instead, the Kremlin is mounting preparations for what it calls the “psychological infection of personnel” by an enemy who would manipulate them through hypnosis—as well as through unknown mystical and psychic powers. The memo warns of “psi-generators” and “hypnotic abilities” used by foreign personnel.
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Who talked? Never mind, we obviously know.

Mysticism merges with more conventional Russian Orthodox beliefs about apocalyptic scenarios and satanic influence. At a September ceremony of the annexation of parts of Ukraine, Putin described how the Western “suppression of freedom itself has taken on the features of a religion: outright Satanism.” Then, in October, the Russian government shifted its justification of the war, claiming it had a moral imperative to “carry out the de-Satanization of Ukraine.” While the language of satanism is sometimes used purely as exaggerated rhetoric, sometimes it’s meant literally. Conservative Russian Orthodox ideas of spiritual warfare, in which the West is depicted as literally demonic, have become incorporated into the Russian state’s own vocabulary—and mixed with the country’s enthusiasm for psychic pseudoscience.
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The article goes onto detail some of Russia's modern research into PSI. How do you reason with people who are waist-deep in woo?

Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen wrote in a 2017 book: “Soviet nomenclature around ESP was rewritten to sound technical, thereby severing all ties with ESP’s occult past.” Telepathy? It was renamed “long-distance biological systems transmissions.” Psychokinesis? Moving objects just by thinking about them was instead called “non-ionizing, in particular electromagnetic, emissions from humans.”
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The leaked FSO memo explains that the deputy director of the FSO, Gen. Alexander Komov, is responsible for the ultimate implementation of the secret plan to ward off a psychic attack should it be needed. Komov is part science-minded, part kook. He participated in a conference organized last year by the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences about the possibility of spying on Earth from space. He also apparently leads a group of freelance advisors that includes astrologers, black magicians, and psychics.
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Fort Meade, Fort Bragg, Little Creek, USASOC, USSOCOM, Hogwarts, Area 51...:D
 
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Hahaha! Those fools! They don't realize that I have mentally controlled them to think that. Now, they will be too distracted to notice as my genetically-altered H2O molecules rain down upon them, slowly reassembling their physical structures into exact copies of Alex Jones. Initially, their original mental configuration will not similarly change, as such deplorable destructive powers are still beyond my means, but once the realization of what HAS occurred sets in, that damage is self-perpetuating.
 
It's Havana Syndrome in reverse. Hilarious. Wonder what the "sufferers" of Havana Syndrome will make of it. Probably say it's a psy-op.
 
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Axxman300 said:
How do you reason with people who are waist-deep in woo?
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Don't try.

We should use it to advantage - if they believe nonsense, give them some.

I'll see if I can start a group directing negative energy at Putin and Russia in general.
 
“suppression of freedom itself has taken on the features of a religion: outright Satanism.”
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We hate their freedom.

It sounds just as stupid when they say it. Ah, well. It looks like they realised Michel is our secret weapon. Back to the drawing board.
 
The US government and military suffered from this same mania in the 70's and established a whole psychic training program to try to learn and militarize "psychic techniques" before the Russians could perfect them and use them against the US.

The project never produced anything militarily useful obviously.
 
Programmes like that, if they can get funded, produce one useful thing, which is funds. Somebody makes money out of it so long as the mugs are paranoid enough to think there just might be something in it.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
Programmes like that, if they can get funded, produce one useful thing, which is funds. Somebody makes money out of it so long as the mugs are paranoid enough to think there just might be something in it.
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A more recent case-in-point, career UFO-nuts taking advantage of some current lawmakers' penchant for anti-establishment grandstanding in order to grease an official UFO-hunting club into existence, with the Department of Defense being forced by Congress to foot the payroll.
 
You know, if this is what scares them, we should give it to them big time. Just show them pictures of people concentrating and caption it, "The West's best psychics attempting to kill Russian forces with their minds, for which there is NO defence." Maybe use that clip from "Scanners" where the guys head explodes.

 
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Checkmite said:
The US government and military suffered from this same mania in the 70's and established a whole psychic training program to try to learn and militarize "psychic techniques" before the Russians could perfect them and use them against the US.

The project never produced anything militarily useful obviously.
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Did the program seek to train soldiers in the use of psychic techniques? Or did it seek to examine the question of whether such techniques existed and were worth further exploration?

Because I view the latter as a perfectly valid line of research, that every serious nation should undertake at some point (even if it is only by making a careful study of what other nations have already researched and reported).

But I view the former as a naive waste of time, if the latter has not already been done. My understanding is that the US effort was mainly of the latter variety. Clear away the hype and the hoaxes, see if any of it is real and can be made useful. Turns out none of it is real, but at least they tried.

Russia seems to be going the exact opposite direction with this: Wholesale acceptance of the charlatan's claims. Like adding John Edward to your staff as a special military advisor.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Should we wake The Great Old One under Lake Baikal?
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Putin's already been down there. Probably made a deal for power. Only it turns out the battle plan for Ukraine is non-Euclidian, and nobody can see the dimensions in which it would have been successful. Putin keeps trying to find someone to go back down for clarification, but half of them would rather jump out a window instead.
 
Surely there is some way to exploit this belief? How about à la Heavens Gate? "We Glorious Russians can win this psychic battle if enough of us pass into the Other Realm to help the fight. Here, drink your Kool-Aid."
 
Checkmite said:
The US government and military suffered from this same mania in the 70's and established a whole psychic training program to try to learn and militarize "psychic techniques" before the Russians could perfect them and use them against the US.

The project never produced anything militarily useful obviously.
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That's what THEY want you to think!
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
Surely there is some way to exploit this belief? How about à la Heavens Gate? "We Glorious Russians can win this psychic battle if enough of us pass into the Other Realm to help the fight. Here, drink your Kool-Aid."
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The Russian people are, by long conditioning and their largely willing compliance, too apathetic for this to work. Also, if it did work it would amount to mass murder, and possibly war crimes.

I think the acme of this art would be to somehow infiltrate or co-opt a credible fortune-teller already in the Kremlin's employ, and have them feed counter-productive prognostications to the Russian leadership. Everything from delaying a major operation to a more auspicious date (giving Ukraine more time to prepare) to encouraging rivals to betray each other sooner rather than later.
 
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