Did KGB manipulate American politics? | Jack Barsky and Lex Fridman

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GUEST BIO:
Jack Barsky is a former KGB spy and author of "Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America".

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[clintcalvert]

These two men in the beginning discuss how difficult it would be to pull off this shit, but then towards the end agree how easy it would be.

[WendyKroyy]

Bezmenov’s main point was that it was Not, in fact, the KGB - but rather it was Americans doing all this to Americans. Translation: the Frankfurt School dominated in Education and Corporations ran with it as well

[Lorenzconnok]

Yuri Bezmonov was either a nostradamus, or he knew the truth. It has to be one or the other.

[georgesek]

Well if you're going to give a POV on Bezmenov, you might as well consider everything he said in the interview. Bezmenov certainly did not say that KGB was behind every single thing that happened or happens in the west. He clearly stated that the process relied on generations of Americans not only not understanding, but also refusing to understand that they are being manipulated. And that they would act sympathetic and push for their own enemies agenda. Everything thing you said proves Bezmenov's right.

[knightoyin]

I believe Yuri more than I believe this guy. You can't claim a guy was a fraud when everything he predicted came to pass decades later. He also did so in such great detail, that is even beyond how well this man told his own life story. Spare me.
Its okay to say you don't know rather than discredit another man's work.

[RolandtheThompsonGunner]

It doesn't matter if somebody's doing this to us or not, it's our fault for letting it get this far. Now that we see a problem, it's even worse if we do nothing to fix it.

[bri_____]

It's very dishonest to call someone a fraud.
Then proceed to validate almost every one of Yuri's points.
The fact is that communism did inflict such subversive tactics on Russia & surrounding nations. Yuri himself was involved in India.
It's blatantly naive to dismiss the notion that those successful tactics were also employed on the USA.

[juandirection]

I don't trust this guy, Yuri was spot on. Also hard to square the Hoover thing when Michael Franzese, whose father was one of the most powerful mobsters in the US, told him that they had evidence of Hoover cross dressing and used it to blackmail him for years. Who is lying?

[godismyfav]

Psychological Operations are definitely happening

[hantitty]

So the WEF is doing exactly this... But it's described as impossible, despite the fact that we're flying through the steps lately with the culture war, COVID, and our soon to be owing nothing but being happy lives...

[conradmcdaniel]

This is what I would say if I was still a secret KGB agent

[HomeportResidential]

I feel like we are pretty divided as a nation, and the fringe elements on both sides of the aisle are getting more extreme, and polarized. I feel like it might have been harder to accomplish this goal in the past, but social media is a cyops dream.

[socialroi]

Lex playing the role of controlled opposition.

[unkle]

Not sure if Bezmenov said it’s going to be the KGB that does it specifically everywhere. It’s the methodology used to subvert a whole group of people and KGB used it but not specifically in the USA. So KGB not being 100% competent with the US is irrelevant as this could be used in any of the previous soviet countries.

[daleb]

Losing faith in Lex. Might clip this video apart and splice in highlights of WEF meetings addressing every “impossibility” that lex alludes to here

[anthonywilliams]

"Don't let it happen, it depends on you.'
- Orwell

[deegobooster]

Barksy seems very misinformed on what Bezmenov was claiming.

[dominysynclair]

He made it up, and we watched it unfold over the last 40 years. Bezmenov has a track record, who is this guy?

[privateness.network]

sometimes asking the question gives the answer
like Aikido, KGB tactic pushes the enemy in the direction it's already going .. I'd say it was wokefully successful

[GlassChicken]

I don't think Yuri should be called a "fraud". Yuri very effectively explained very high level concepts of subversion in the context of Sun Tzu. He was not necessarily claiming that it was a coordinated manipulation. Lex why didn't you steel man argue for Yuri? I'm disappointed in how you essentially used Yuri as a punching bag for Jack Barsky. Jack describe himself as a more important asset because he was not posted in India like Yuri? Not your best interview moment Lex.