Why Only Russian Journalists Can Be Trusted in America Right Now

In the Soviet Union, reporting from Warsaw Pact countries usually synthesized reporting done by locally employed Eastern bloc citizens with that ran by the Soviet Union of Journalists in Moscow.

Those Soviet journalists, selected for their loyalty to the state, ideological reliability, and personal integrity worked diligently under the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

To put things in perspective, had General Secretary of the Communist party Yuri Andropov not died in 1983, the Soviet Union might have avoided its abrupt dissolution. Andropov understood the power of information and having witnessed the Hungarian Uprising first hand in 1956 as then Soviet ambassador to Budapest he had no illusions on the importance of media reliability.

Admittedly, Budapest in 1956 might seem a long way from the United States in 2017 — but the distance is only circumstantial. It was in 1956 that George Soros, a Hungarian refugee, moved to America. And it was the rattle of Soviet tanks along Budapest’s cobblestoned streets that from that point on formed much of his worldview.

For Andropov, as Budapest was repeated in Prague and then Poland — the lessons were crystal clear: the reporting of revolutionary turmoil that threatened the geopolitical interests of the Soviet Union could only be undertaken by seasoned professionals whose ideological outlook left no doubt about their journalistic standards. For these Soviet reporters, mastery of the alternative fact was a basic paradigm.

It is of course absolutely inconceivable that either the Central Committee or the Soviet Union of Journalists would have ever outsourced their work during the Hungarian Uprising to, say, the Hungarian Writers Union. Indeed, that’s precisely where the danger to the geopolitical posture of the Soviet Union in liberated Eastern Europe lurked.

Again, because the vectors must be crystal clear for RT and Sputnik, it would have been considered the height of folly to rely upon reporters employed by the Union of Czechoslovak Writers to cover the Dubcek reforms, let along the Prague Uprising.

In Poland, several years after Andropov’s death, workers in the Lenin Shipyards formed the Solidarity Movement which was less about economic conditions in Poland — and more about the agitation of local journalists and secretly sponsored CIA printing presses. The fact that the media reporting in Poland slipped from Communist control is critical in understanding the subsequent fall of the Warsaw Pact without a single shot being fired.

It should now be obvious that the implications for RT and Sputnik are profound — a truth only underwritten by the civil unrest that may sweep the United States as immigration reforms take hold. The chaos might be a field day for snowflakes with a camera — but it is also likely to usher the worst clique of Russophobes into power since McCarthy.

As in Eastern Europe as the Warsaw Pact teetered on the edge, today’s American rainbow demonstrators are funded by forces that are antagonistic to the Russian Federation. An administration, in this case President Trump, which is of a broadly positive disposition towards Russia, faces the challenge of terminal civil unrest.

The lessons from the Warsaw Pact leave us in no doubt that in such turmoil — the Russian media ought to rely exclusively on journalists loyal to Moscow in reporting fast-paced events on the ground: that means Russian citizens from the Russian media sphere. Russian journalists are among the most talented and ambitious on the planet and America is now where they need to be.

While no one doubts the energy of western journalists working for RT and Sputnik, in a revolutionary situation, their ideological loyalties will naturally take precedence: Their priority will only be to promote their crabbed ideological sect — be that Anarchist, BLM, Neo-Marxist, Sino-Marxist, Environmentalist, Separatist, Pro-EU, or LGBT.

As active measures to ‘demoralize western societies’ these might have been pertinent tactics in say the 1960s. But these forces have long since been co-opted into the liberal establishment and are in any case indifferent to Russia’s geopolitical aims. Their relationship with Russia is one of convenience. More importantly, in a time of revolutionary foment, their operations become a downright liability in terms of the big optics of defending the Russian Federation in Eurasia.

These people might be able to burn a few limousines, they may even be able to get a pipeline closed to put 2 cents on a barrel of oil — but their views ultimately promote Russia’s global liberal order enemies and whereas British Euroskeptics have smashed the EU and President Trump will go on to shave NATO of its expansionist ambitions- these useful idiots can’t even agitate for Scottish independence without embarrassing Russia.

While watching such people staking out their ideological territory amidst the smoke grenades and running battles with the riot police might present the cathartic illusion that America is writing amidst the chaos, Russia’s wider geopolitical and security goals must take precedence over such self-indulgence. It is, therefore, vital to ensure that only Russian citizens loyal to Moscow report the spreading chaos in the United States. To avoid undercutting President Trump the way General Jaruzelski and Erich Honekcer were abandoned, it is time for Moscow to control the narrative by deploying professional Russian journalists as temporary replacements for the Western employees.