In a conversation with CNN’s Jake Tapper last week, John Bolton - a genocidal warmonger from the US who is responsible for the deaths of many - admitted without any sign of guilt or shame on his face that he planned foreign coups with the US government. Coups with ‘s’.
His acknowledgment was preceded by the discussion about the Capitol riot on January 6th of the last year. He claimed that January 6th was not an attempted coup by Trump but rather “Donald Trump looking out for Donald Trump,” meaning he [Trump] incited violence for his own interests not to overthrow the government. When faced with disagreement from the CNN host, Bolton tried to pull authority on the matter by trying to prove that he knows more about coups than him.
"As somebody who has helped plan coups d’etat — not here, but, you know, other places — it takes a lot of work, and that’s not what [Trump] did,” Bolton said.
“I do want to ask a follow-up," Tapper said. "When we were talking about what is capable, or what you need to do to be able to plan a coup, and you cited your expertise having planned coups.”
“I’m not going to get into the specifics,” replied Bolton.
“Successful coups?” Tapper continued.
“Well, I wrote about Venezuela in the book," Bolton answered. "And it turned out not to be successful – not that we had all that much to do with it, but I saw what it took for an opposition to try and overturn an illegally elected president, and they failed. The notion that Donald Trump was half as competent as the Venezuelan opposition is laughable.”
“I feel like there’s other stuff you’re not telling me, though,” Tapper responded.
“I’m sure there is,” Bolton said and with this, he ended the discussion about his involvement in foreign coups and continued the Jan 6th discussion.
Tapper didn’t even try to pursue the matter further because everyone at CNN is a propagandist first and a journalist second. It just tells you that the job of the traditional media institutions is not to bring truth to public awareness but to spread the propaganda and hide the evil deeds of the US empire.
Bolton admitting it plainly on the screen and not receiving some serious public backlash shows you how effective their propaganda machine is. They can openly admit the things that they used to do covertly not a long time ago because the public is propagandized into believing that that’s the norm. They can literally call a random person the President of Venezuela while trying to oust its democratically elected leader Nicolas Maduro and get consent from the American public.
People generally overestimate the military power of the US empire while underestimating the power and effectiveness of its propaganda machine. The propaganda machine is just as powerful, if not more, as its military machine. It’s their propaganda machine that lets their military machine run ruthlessly, and in order to attack its mighty military machine, you have to attack its propaganda machine first. That’s what I’m doing here; trying to make the public conscious of what’s really going on behind the curtain.
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