Honestly this all seems too good to be fully true to me, like a wish fulfillment fantasy. The NED’s new guard installed at this high a level can’t be this ignorant of the org’s purpose, right? Or perhaps they really can be. Perhaps senior NED staff will have to be re-replaced, or else the whole project scuttled and replaced by something else. Maybe this kind of work has to return to its clandestine roots.
RT has coverage as well:
https://www.rt.com/news/601856-ned-regime-change-grayzone/ (Archive link)
Just laughing my ass off imaging some seething and crying neo-con boomer chud being told to put pronouns on their business card by some pink-washing millennial girl-boss hire.
It is interesting given how the CIA and other parts of the deep state have gone all-in on pink-washing and CIA-feminism (yes women can be drone pilots, in fact they’re our best, etc, etc messaging) given the agency’s history and the types they typically attracted. I always wondered how much that was just surface level PR and marketing but it appears to be stirring the hornets nest of the old guard reactionary ruthless criminals who were directly trained by and worked with the worst (and best at their job perhaps) of the cold war era monsters.
It’s like people have hypothesized many times in online left spaces, they drunk the kool-aid, they were raised on it so they don’t understand the truth, the real purpose, they’re true believers in liberalism and believe the propaganda, the truth of purpose has been lost behind the marketing and PR that everyone including their employees bought into and given that they can’t effectively act because they’re too earnest and don’t understand how it works.
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Aun came from Komen for the Cure, which was a racket, so if she’s as gormless as it seems, I’m surprised.