https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1jn0xl3/most_employees_at_us_institute_of_peace_massfired/
Most employees at the US Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded thinktank now taken over by Elon Musk's unofficial "department of government efficiency", received email notices of their mass firing late Friday, the latest step in the Trump administration's government downsizing.
Glantz studied how Russia has fomented conflicts around the world and analyzed options for resolving them. She hoped her research could be continued and used elsewhere. She said the institute plays a unique role because of its narrow focus on conflict resolution.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/us-institute-of-peace-mass-firings
Has a think tank ever produced anything of relevance?
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Fun fact: during the Cold War the Soviet Union supported peace orgs in the West with the aim of disarming their opposition.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_influence_on_the_peace_movement
Not entirely related to the topic, but any sort of "peace institute" sounds like commie gobbledygook to me.
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The point of this organization was to combat Russian propaganda about "peace". I wonder why the Trump administration wants to dismantle it?
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Seeing how those "peace activists" or "green activists" selectively pressure the West while being mum on our adversaries shows they are in the least ideologically blind to it, or at worst they are compromised one way or another.
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They're very easy to spot when you know what to look for. Back 25 years ago I was pointing out to leftoids that their hero Glen Greenwald was always denouncing government surveillance in America but for some reason he had no problem with it in Russia where it's 100 times worse. Since then he's completely flipped around to where he's supposedly "right-wing" but where his principles have never changed is his refusal to ever condemn Russia for anything he complains about America doing.
They were doing this all through the Cold War, having their front organizations in the West say "X is bad, so we need to get rid of it in our own country". Particular emphasis was on stuff that the Soviets themselves thought was most important:
nuclear weapons
nuclear power in general
missile defense
space
the military
internal security (FBI)
foreign intelligence (CIA)
It really makes you think how "left-wing" ideology in America and especially Western Europe just happened to coincide with the priorities the KGB was pushing. All the conspiracy theories just happen to blame somebody who the Soviets especially wanted to tear down. When they've got most of the imbeciles in the world believing that Lee Harvey Oswald, a militant communist since childhood, must have really been working for the CIA you can see how good they were at manipulating tards.
The enhanced radiation warhead, the "neutron bomb", is a classic example. This is a very specialized kind of nuclear weapon. It's the same as an ordinary hydrogen bomb except that it emits more radiation. If a hydrogen bomb goes off over your head you're not going to care much how much radiation there is because you're going to be burned or blasted to death anyway. The exception is if you're inside a tank. Then you'll be protected from most of the effects of the bomb but radiation will still penetrate. There's really not any reason for using one unless you're shooting it at a concentration of a lot of enemy tanks, which happened to be exactly the threat NATO was dealing with so it was built as a tactical weapon delivered by artillery or short-range missiles.
Of course that's not what you'd hear in the media. They claimed that there was no explosion, just radiation. And your average tard doesn't know or think too hard about what "radiation" means so they could get really creative. Their imaginary "neutron bomb" does nothing except kill people. There's no explosion or damage to anything else. So if a war breaks out, the wicked Americans will use it to kill off all their enemies in Europe but keep their cities and factories intact. You can tell the intellectual level they were aiming at here as neutron radiation would turn everything radioactive, but "neutron" sounds scary and they're lying anyway so who gives a shit? It's been half a century now and this is still the popular understanding of what a "neutron bomb" is.
This was a very convenient propaganda campaign for the Soviets as they didn't need these weapons themselves. NATO wasn't going to be concentrating a huge number of tanks in one place, so it wasn't much use against them. (Actually they did build the same kind of warhead but only for their anti-ballistic missile system, but Western media in all their hand-wringing over "Star Wars" never even mentions that exists so it's pretty easy to ignore.) Anyway, my point is, if there's a weapon that's effective against Russia but not useful to the Russians, you can be sure that the "peace movement" will want it banned.
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Soviet "Zombie Propaganda" is actually quite the issue, a huge amount of
have picked up pieces of it unknowingly.
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Not just in the West, but it is also prevalent in West-aligned countries.
Funnily, the wumaos think environmentalism is a ploy by CIA to weaken their industrial capacity.
Really shows how deeply the Left-Wing ideologies have won the 20th, and shows no signs of waning in the 21st century, given both the left and right are both repeating the same talking, albeit for different reasons.
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That's pretty how I've heard that bomb being described.
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OUT!
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"Embrace, extend, and extinguish"
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Just what are you implying?
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