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“Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.”

― Howard Tayler, Emperor Pius Dei

Throughout history civilizations rise and fall after going through a long cycle of power dynamics that ultimately leads to such power being abused by corrupt leaders and grafters. As it turns out, these corrupt people that manage to find their way to the top of a leadership position have a greater interest in using the power of their position for their own perceived personal gain rather than leveraging the power of their position for the betterment of their home country.

During such times when bad actors are allowed to get into power and control the country of their origin they have often done so by using a boot on the neck of their citizens while always looking to do whatever they can in order to maintain their hold on power.

In such times if these corrupt dictators can sense that their grip on the power dynamic is slipping they may be smart enough to recognize such a thing and it’s usually at this point that they realize that they must start looking into ways to help themselves maintain the control of their position by any means necessary.

When this happens traditionally these types of dictators would go to a podium to stand in front of their people to call out a foreign devil. It’s at this point that the corrupt leader would explain to his people how the cause of all of their problems is centered around a foreign devil that is a threat to their homeland.

At this moment a corrupt leader is essentially leaning on the playbook of leveraging radical nationalism in order to drum up fear and to create a false enemy while all the time this leader is engaging in psychological projection as he is guilty of the actual problem that he’s telling his people that the foreign devil is guilty of being.

Time and time again we can see this scenario play out in the history books and when it does the world becomes a very dangerous place. This always results in millions of people dying due to wars that ravage cities and rural areas in a manner that is so dark that it’s hard to comprehend.

If we fast forward through time up to the present day we can see how this same playbook has been taking form from a certain country in the east that desires to rule the entire world.

Although there’s been different strategies employed by these corrupt leaders in the past, today we can see how they prefer to place a lot more emphasis on adopting a more clandestine approach. You can see this in their efforts as they aim to infiltrate and subvert a foreign devil from within.

To give you a specific example these days they even engage in getting into trade deals with their enemy by offering cheap labor to the corporate businesses of their enemy’s homeland in order to manufacture their goods and products. Make no mistake this cheap labor is cheap because it’s made up of slave labor from their working populace.

Also understand that they are willing to do this in order to help enrich the elites of those companies of their enemy’s homeland. Now you may look at that and ask How is that a bad thing? How could they help to enrich the elites of their enemy’s homeland and still consider them an enemy?

Well if either of those questions occurred to you then you’d be asking some very good questions. However, you’ve got to understand that there’s a very specific reason for them engaging in such trade and business with their enemies.

You see once the ruling regime of the authoritarians are able to build a huge manufacturing base for the corporations from their enemy’s homeland then they can do other more impactful and nefarious things. At this point they can manage to build immense influence, achieve financial capture, and literally position themselves to steal the technological makeup and design of every product that they work to build for those companies who are from their enemy’s homeland.

It just so happens that the ruling regime of the country practicing such a thing also guides their decisions by engaging in the ancient military general Sun Tzu’s Art of War principles. This essentially means that they are striving to master that clandestine approach that I mentioned earlier.

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Once they have been successful in enriching the elites of their enemies from a strong trade and economic coupling then they will start using that influence, money, and power of those elites to infiltrate their enemy’s homeland.

At this point they will get the elites to get involved in the political process of funding the political campaigns of politicians who are sympathetic to the authoritarian, corrupt leader’s regime. They will also work with the elites to set up schools inside the homeland of their enemy’s borders in order to indoctrinate the youths of their enemy.

They will also donate money to the existing institutions of their enemy’s homeland to use curriculum to propagate the student body with messaging that causes the student body to be sympathetic to their cause while training the student body to hate their own country.

So what is the result of all of this?

Civil Chaos

Now in case you’re wondering, up to this point the corrupt leaders that I’m referring to are the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the foreign devil that they are at war with happens to be the United States.

However, the strategy of using their nefarious mercantilist trade practices to hollow out the manufacturing base of the United States, while simultaneously engaging in the practice of elite capture, is a very real problem that the United States is currently having to deal with.

This sort of game is a very dangerous one and the so-called elites within the United States have essentially aided in the funding and implementation of what is known as fifth column activity.

If you’re not familiar with that term, a fifth column essentially involves a faction of subversive agents who are doing what they can in order to undermine a nation’s solidarity by any means at their disposal.

The origin of this word dates back to the Spanish civil war (1936-39) involving the Nationalist general Emilio Mola Vidal. At that time as Vidal’s four army columns moved on Madrid Vidal had referred to his sympathizers and militant supporters within the capital as his fifth column, as they were intent on dividing and undermining the loyalist government from the inside.

The central goal and technique that is to be employed by the fifth column is the infiltration of sympathizers into the entire fabric of the nation that happens to be under attack. This is a well thought out and intentional action that is designed to fracture the nation that one is looking to conquer, or destroy.

Here in the U.S. over the last several years we’ve seen a drastic escalation in this fifth column activity, especially as it pertains to the actions of our longstanding and now corrupt institutions. Many of the major institutions have been captured by the CCP through the long steady effort and implementation of their influence operations that have been purposely aimed at destroying our country from within.

One well known example of this fifth column activism here in the states involves the Black Lives Matter organization. As the Heritage Foundation reported way back on September 15, 2020 you could easily find this connection by simply visiting the website of Black Futures Lab which was a venture of Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza.

Since this story was reported there seems to have been some changes made to the Black Futures Lab site, but the Heritage Foundation was brilliant enough to screenshot the page. At the time the Heritage Foundation reported on how it would ask you to send your money to an obscure organization known as the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA).

As it turns out the CPA was founded back in 1972 in San Francisco. This organization came about during the heady days of the Marxist-oriented Asian American Movement and it also had a functioning chapter in Boston.

From its inception this group has been an advocate for the People’s Republic of China (PRC). To this day the CPA Boston continues to be an active partner of the PRC in the United States.

When the Heritage Foundation first published their article on the relationship between the CPA and BLM that same article reported on how just three years prior the Boston chapter teamed up with China’s Consulate General in New York to offer Chinese nationals the opportunity to renew their passports. Of course, this got them a lot of praise and open support from China’s official mouthpiece the China Daily.

The evidence of the CCP’s clandestine war and fifth column activity within our borders is overwhelming and more and more of it is rising to the surface as it’s being exposed by alternative MAGA media sources like this one. One thing is for sure the Administrative State Media (ASM) is captured and they only ...

The Fifth Column