Deep State Warlovers and the Efficacy of Propaganda

I will start this essay with a caveat. As I’ve said many times before, I am not qualified to be an expert in geopolitical affairs, no matter how closely I may follow them. I spent my professional life cultivating an ability to listen to people who consulted me, and to divine from this listening something of value to be shared, something that had hitherto remained outside the understanding and orbit of the patients who sought my assistance.

Lack of expertise hasn’t stopped a plethora of YouTubers and Xers from offering a smorgasbord of opinion about virtually everything —as they, in fact, are perfectly entitled to do. Sifting observations and analyses of value from the steady stream of discourse is like panning for gold: it requires patience, dedication, hope, and time.

If I may lay claim to any sort of expertise it is primarily in the arena of absorbing data and material in a way that points to deeper structures or currents. To cite a small but important example, I realized quite early on in the Experience Covid that the relentless and single-minded hammering of fear into all of us by our once-trusted legacy media — media who sang the same identical tune as if from a songsheet handed to them from above — was a signal clue that these media were engaged not in the process of informing us, their public, but in propagandizing.

And the propaganda was immensely successful, as it convinced a whole helluva lot of otherwise intelligent people to take leave of their senses and engage in the absurd rituals of mask-wearing and social distancing, and to succumb to the even more patently destructive activity of seeking out multiple injections of a substance not only unnecessary to begin with, but one fraught with potential danger and, whatever one’s position on covid ‘vaccination’, one that was decidedly not ever adequately tested.

And wait, there’s more! These same ostensibly intelligent or sophisticated people threw off the ethical garb they generally enjoyed flaunting to vilify us ‘refuseniks’ — those of us who steered clear of the snake-oil inoculations.

But this story is an old one by now, and it bores me to tears. What I’d like to address is another deviously clever operation in the sphere of politics — again, not that I’m an expert in politics, but because I like to think I’m an expert in knowing BS when I see, and hear, and smell it.

When Donald Trump surprised the world and his political rival Hillary Clinton by winning the 2016 Presidential election, Clinton and the Democratic machine wasted no time in telling everyone that Trump’s victory was illegitimate precisely because he had conspired with arch-villain Vladimir Putin and arch-enemy Russia.

When I first heard this nonsense I merely shook my head and dismissed it with a shrug and a wry smile, little knowing that this drivel would have the impact of a cataclysmic thunderstorm that would drench less impervious minds and souls and actually have them believing it! Forget about the pee-tapes and the Moscow hotels, I’m talking about the acceptance, on the part of a large segment of American citizenry, that Trump was a Putin puppet and a traitor.

Despite the fact that this was so egregiously stupid and nonsensical, and despite the fact that it has been painstakingly rebutted since that time, it was AND REMAINS a stroke of propagandistic genius that cast any attempts by Trump to pursue diplomacy with Russia as signs of malfeasant treason.

Even now, the ugly heads of Russiagate have resurfaced to smear the Trump Administration’s laudable attempts at achieving peace in Ukraine in a way that to my mind is breathtakingly incredible

Like most people I witnessed the now-historic exchanges between Trump and Zelensky in the Oval Office.

I watched in stark amazement as Zelensky, a monster who has sacrificed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives, make the case for ongoing war and murder. When Trump, to his great statesmanlike credit, put this little malevolent puppet in his place, his war-loving enemies couldn’t wait to haul out the old treason tropes. So if and when Trump expresses a wish to normalize relations between America and Russia, this is seen as submission. When he quite clearly and loudly calls for an end to the unnecessary killing in the Ukraine, of Ukrainians and Russians, he is called an appeaser.

Perhaps most hurtful to me personally, getting back to the so-called intelligent sophisticates I early alluded to, people whom I know who should be singing Hosannas for a leader who advocates peace, are either quiet or also on the attack.

When did War become so fashionable for the intellectual Left? Why is it that no world leader but JFK can be acclaimed for moving the world towards peaceful resolutions of conflict?

I also watch aghast as the entity known as the European Union beats the drums of war. Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer is ready to send British troops to help Zelensky, but can’t muster adequate police protection for citizens from rape and other forms of abuse and criminality.

Can it be clearer that the EU leaders have allegiances not to the citizens of European countries, but to themselves, to their stratum alone?

And can it be clearer that Trump, the much-maligned object of so much scorn, is actually doing immense things to protect the citizens of the United States — from unwarranted migrant invasions and from unwanted foreign wars and from imponderably huge taxpayer theft?

I’ll conclude this diatribe by a little comment on open-mindedness and cult-like thinking. You know you are up against a cultist when nothing you can say or show can change his or her mind. It’s actually the best litmus test of all.

So if Trump advocates for peace, the cultist will sneer and tell you that he’s really all for war, just you wait and see.

I myself am ready to wait and see, but also to support those striving for some real political good rather than militate against them.

So, yes, let’s wait, and let’s see, and meanwhile dictatorial rats like Zelensky continue to scurry about, emboldened by brethren rats in Macron, Starmer, Von der Leyen, and others who have shown a remarkable ability to eviscerate that once proud continent of Europe for purposes that have nothing to do with real democracy or the general good of its peoples.

Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D.

March 2025

P.S.: Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian prison. He was a dual citizen of Chile and the United States, and he took it upon himself to post about the conflict in Ukraine as it raged around him from his residence in the Kharkiv region. One diplomatic phone call from the Biden Administration is all it would have taken to have had him removed from the prison where he died and returned him to home soil. But neither Biden nor his henchmen ever made that call; instead they let an American citizen rot and die in jail, for purely political reasons. Lira’s primer on the Ukraine conflict is well worth viewing: