Thread by @davetroy

It’s time for us to come to grips with the fact that the Snowden, Greenwald, Assange ops were all part of a years-long Russia-supported effort to upend the West.

And for the Reply Guys out there, this has been evident to me for several years. It’s amazing to me how many people a) still don’t believe it, b) this hasn’t even occurred to, c) can only respond with whataboutism. It’s time to revisit this history, and get at deeper narratives.

The good news: anyone who suggested this years ago was met with howls of derision from the left, and the right. Now, only the most mindf*cked dare protest. Most everyone else is reaching the point of “yeah, I see it.” That’s a good thing. Now it’s time to get at the real story.

Some other responses are very 2015: “Why are you defending government surveillance?” Lol, where did I say that? Also amused by the RT writers coming out of the woodwork. Direct hit, once again. 🚀

Further: this is complicated. It needs a complicated telling. Attempts to oversimplify it into either hero or villain narratives serve no one. But the version of the story that got written is wrong, and needs to be corrected. That’s why I used this specific language: “part of.”

Another common response: “I, too, was duped.” That is honest. This was difficult to make sense of in real-time, and many people of conscience was conflicted over it. But as evidence has come in, and reality has exerted itself, it’s become more and more clear what happened.

Anybody who insists on an oversimple, misdirecting, or whataboutist narrative is simply not being intellectually honest about this. The truth WILL make its way out, and folks covering for bad operators should ask themselves how they’ll look then.

Let’s go back to 2014, shall we? Snowden got his stuff how? DIA. Who was running DIA then? Mike Flynn.
theguardian.com/world/2014/may…

And this is a fun artifact. Thiel operator Chuck Johnson and Putin’s favorite Libertarian Congressman ever, Dana Rohrabacher, visiting Assange years ago. Anyway, the facts will be known, and the facts are not pretty for that crew.

The people objecting most to this: Grayzone “leftists,” RT writers and their affiliates, Green Party candidates, right-libertarian “sovereign individual” types. A direct hit on the Russian Fifth Column. 🚀 🎯

This speaks for itself.

https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1574502039530311680

Oh and how could I forget… this is a rare opportunity to deploy a double Chuck Johnson.

https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1573402715354529795