How Russia Conquered America — Without Firing a Bullet

What Happens When a Society Uses Democracy to Undo Its Own Sovereignty?

What a strange, weird, and chilling thing the world saw today. An American president meekly, proudly handing over the keys to the house of democracy, to its most historic foe, in a bizarre, global, public spectacle. Wasn’t it humiliating?

I find the word “conquered” as ridiculous and childish as you do. LOL. But what then is this? A coup? A soft revolution? I think reason begins here — this event is something we don’t have a good word for. And that’s because it’s so far off the charts of history. The point of war, beyond the plunder, is to control a state — yet somehow, this was non-war which was lost without a fight, by installing a puppet so servile, so obvious, that the world laughs in shocked bewilderment. Isn’t that odd? How did it happen?

I think Russia didn’t need to fire a bullet because it realized that all it needed to do was help finish what America itself had started. The project of undoing a democracy — using a democracy. I’ll get to that. First, let me set the stage.

My story has three strands, an economic one, a social one, and a cultural one. Together, I think, they produced a nation that was hollow, fragile, empty broken inside — and thus…