John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PAUL ROBINSON IN RUSSIA INSIDER
"...the Atlantic Council latest report, The Kremlin’s Trojan Horses 3, which is the third in a series purporting to expose high-profile Europeans who are subverting democracy from within as witting or unwitting agents of the Russian government"
"It really is amazingly silly."
It would be hard to come up with a better summary than that sentence.
But of course, the Atlantic Council, putting out this stuff, is just one more of dozens of American or American-inspired "think- tanks."
All of them are little more than glorified propaganda mills, generally posing as quasi-academic institutions complete with "Fellows," "Senior This-or-Thats," and comfy booked-lined offices with leather chairs.
It is all intended to bespeak expert authority.
They are all funded by extremely wealthy Americans or, surreptitiously, by the Pentagon and CIA.
But their underlying purpose, getting some notions "out there," is one for propagandists or security service specialists in disinformation, not academic institutions or expert specialist organizations.
There is nothing disinterested or purely investigatory or scientific in their output, except for the elaborate window dressing for appearances.
So, they start with a fundamentally flawed premise, elaborate on it, and produce high-class garbage.
I've always regarded the spokespeople or lecturers from these outfits in the same light as you regard an actor in a television commercial who wears a white lab coat to suggest his credentials as a doctor or scientist and is advising you which over-the-counter remedy to buy.
