COL49 reference

[J Tracy]

Recklessly replying to my own post:
 French historian and anthropologist Emmanuel Todd:

"Our Russophobia has nothing to do with Russia itself. It's a fantasy, a pathology of Western societies, an internal need to imagine a Russian monster. When speaking about Russia, the leaders of France, Great Britain, Germany, or Sweden are primarily talking about themselves. Russophobia is, without a doubt, a pathology. But above all, Russia has become an impressive projective test. Its image is similar to the Rorschach psychological test. The subject tells the psychiatrist what they see in random or symmetrical shapes. At that moment, they project deep, hidden traits of their personality. Russia is our Rorschach test."

> On Jul 27, 2025, at 9:09 PM, J Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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> This is a quote from  Ray McGovern - ex CIA analyst and daily briefer of George HW Bush ( former head of CIA) and now anti spokesman and voice for sanity who, from the start,  exposed the falsification that was Russiagate . I seemed a poignant refrain of a similar theme from  The Crying of Lot 49 
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> "Forgotten is that the U.S. and Russia once enjoyed excellent relations. During the Civil War, for example, Abraham Lincoln called on Russia to send warships to warn the British and French to cease intervening in support of the southern Confederacy [as part of an effort to break up and weaken the U.S.]. Russia was paying the U.S. back a favor—as the U.S. had assisted Russia during the Crimean War. This is a history not taught in schools today—and it is ignored by most academic historians, as is the brutal U.S. invasion of Russia in 1918 with six other countries that effectively launched the Cold War. ↑ <https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/11/05/ray-mcgovern-the-man-who-got-russiagate-right-and-tried-to-warn-the-public-to-no-avail/#post-28164-footnote-ref-0>
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> This history is still an embarrassment to those who continue to-this-day to remain  faithful and plentiful non-fiction members of the Peter Pinguid Society, may Yaheh ever continue to smoke their  greasy petrified erections . 
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