Let us start with some basic facts. The United States spends more on defence than the next nine countries combined. The entire world spent $2.4 trillion in 2023 on the military. The United States spent 40 per cent of it ($916 billion). The US has not won a single war since World War II. In fact, in two wars it had to run away in a humiliating manner (Vietnam and Afghanistan).
How do you square these facts?
One, how can the world’s strongest military by far keep losing wars and yet take up one every other year without any regard for its consequences? Unless the wars aren’t about winning but about profit.
On January 17, 1961, the 34th American President said something interesting in his farewell speech. He warned against the takeover of American society by the “Military Industrial Complex.”
A Brown University research study found that the United States had spent $5.8 trillion on the war in Afghanistan and the other conflicts started after 9/11. Most of these funds were appropriated using the “emergency” and “contingency” funding that circumvented the normal Budget process. The result was that the spending oversight was minimal and it was kept on with the pretense that the wars were “short term” and about to end.
By 2021, the defence contractors had outnumbered the US troops three-to-one. So money was provided by the American taxpayers and paid to the defence and military contractors making them richer and richer. This use of Military Industrial Complex has meant subversion of different countries to enable military action and weapons sale to wage wars. Results do not matter in these wars. Length of time and the sale of weapons does.
This mechanism lines the pockets of the politicians who justify that ad sells wars while outsourcing the action and weapons to the Military Industrial Complex. The Complex makes profits and recycles it back. A very neat game indeed.
The Deep State
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the “Deep State” as an alleged secret network of especially non elected government officials and sometimes private entities (as in the financial services and defense industries) operating extralegally to influence and enact government policy.
So the Deep State in any country is an alleged clandestine network of especially non elected Government officials and sometimes private entities. In most cases, they come from areas like the financial services and defense industries. Of course, they operate extralegally for plausible deniability.
As per the proponents of the discussion on the Deep State, it is a network that is believed to wield significant power through experience, knowledge, relationships, insight, craft, special skills, traditions, and shared values, which purportedly enable these bureaucrats to form a supergovernment that is accountable to no one.
The term Deep State originally comes from the Turkish term Derin Devlet, which refers to a supposed secret network within the Turkish military and bureaucracy that operates outside of and possibly in opposition to the official political framework to preserve certain national interests
The global Deep State has operated around the world to exert control for power and profits. Through espionage and covert operations, using state and non-state actors, powerful countries penetrate the entire machinery of governance in the target state to use it in their geopolitical
games. Not only is the governance compromised, but via selective sponsorship, investments and deep propaganda, the society is turned against itself.
How Champions of Democracy Destroy Democracy?
Let us understand how a country is penetrated and its polity compromised. We will use a contemporary case study – Ukraine. In 2004, Leonid Kuchma, the two-term Ukraine President since 1994, was leaving due to constitutional term limits and new presidential elections were being held in October 2004. Kuchma favoured the then-sitting Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The opposition candidate was Viktor Yushchenko, leader of the Our Ukraine faction in the Ukrainian Parliament and a former Prime Minister (1999-2001). The result of the fourth presidential election in Ukraine since the Soviet collapse was to be announced on November 21. A Sunday. On Monday, the official media announced that Yanukovych had won by three percentage points.
The Ukrainian and foreign “monitors” accused the election machinery of massive fraud, voter intimidation, physical assaults, and the torching of ballot boxes. Supporters of CIA-backed Viktor Yushchenko started protests. They gathered at the Independence Square of Kyiv wearing orange badges or something of that colour. It was the colour of Yushchenko’s party – Our Ukraine. And the start of the Orange Revolution.
What Yushchenko lost on the ballot, he wanted to win via protests. Sound familiar? But who started these protests?
As per a paper from the US Naval Postgraduate School, the players who pumped in money to generate these protests included:
The US Government provides money to the State Department and associated NGOs for foreign operations via its State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPs) Bill.
The 2022 Bill had an outlay of $56.1 billion. Major beneficiaries include USAID and NED for “democracy programmes”.
The NED has played a significant covert and subversive role in Nicaragua, Mongolia, Albania, Bulgaria, and Slovakia. The NED funnels its money via four affiliated institutes-National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), International Republican Institute (IRI), Center for Independent Private Enterprise (CIPE) and American Center for International Labor Solidarity (“Solidarity Center”).
The whole programme of “Democracy Promotion” is really a subversion and interventionist programme by the US in other countries.
Democracy promotion has been a key aspect of U.S. identity and foreign policy, though Washington also has a long history of supporting non-democratic forms of governance. It has both consolidated democratic regimes and intervened to overthrow democratically elected governments. Democracy promotion is a broad term encompassing different activities, undertaken as part of a nation’s foreign policy, which intend to initiate and foster democratic governance abroad. Democracy promotion efforts may include, among other strategies, “traditional” diplomacy, targeted foreign aid and assistance, and both covert and overt military intervention.
Its genesis was in the actions of the Reagan administration, which established the programme and the National Endowment for Democracy to ensure actions were taken in the US strategic interests. Essentially, NED took over many of the tasks and objectives that the CIA used to perform. President Ronald Reagan established the programme in 1983, following years of scandals that tarnished the Central Intelligence Agency. Soon, it took over many of the tasks that the CIA used to perform. When the United States wanted to interfere in the Italian election of 1948, for example, the CIA did the job. Decades later, when Washington sought to push its favoured candidate into the presidency of Nicaragua, our instrument was the National Endowment for Democracy.
Promoting Imperialism
In the garb of promoting democracy, the US Government was basically promoting imperialist programmes to control other countries. And what better way to do it than using NGOs as opposed to the very obvious direct hand of the CIA?
This is an important part – the use of NGOs to subvert societies in the garb of democracy and human rights.
Using NGOs To Subvert Societies
In fact, in 2010-11, the amount received from outside India was to the tune of USD two billion! Thirty three per cent of this money came from just the United States alone! For the financial year 2010-11, available data show that about 22,000 NGOs received a total of more than $ two billion from abroad, of which $650 million came from the US.
By some estimates, there was one NGO per every 600 people in India, but the figure could have been even higher – close to one NGO for every
400 people living in India! In contrast, as per the Union Home Ministry official statistics in 2010-11, India had just one policeman per 943 people in the country!
There were more NGOs per person in India than policemen!
Because of the NGOs’ ability to collect deep and sensitive information, it could severely impact national security. For example, the Joshua Project by the evangelists collects information about different slices of India’s population in every district of the country. A set of data that could be used to fuel widespread rioting and unrest, if the data was shared with those in charge of subversive activities.
George Soros – The Foreign Policy Non-State Actor
In many ways, just as the US Government created the vast Military Industrial Complex to wage wars and in many ways redistribute wealth from taxpayers to the top elite, it also outsourced a large chunk of its foreign policy activities to non-state actors.
We have seen how the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID) have rather unabashedly been used by the US Government to do what the CIA and other intelligence organisations used to do earlier. Billions are earmarked for their activities.
Another organisation or rather an ecosystem of organisations that work as an extended arm of the US covert operations is the Open Society Foundation. It is an organisation used by the American billionaire George Soros to work with the American establishment to carry out its geostrategic agenda.
George Soros made inroads into the United States’ establishment during the time of Bill Clinton. He aligned himself with the political elite and started running his own “State Department” in Washington DC.
“People in Government used to sort of dismiss George— this crazy guy interested in Hungary,” said Morton Abramowitz, the former United States Ambassador to Turkey, who is now the President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and has participated in a Soros-funded advocacy group on the Balkans. “He’s now become a player—but it’s very recent, a new phenomenon.” Abramowitz went on, “He’s untrained, idiosyncratic—he gets in there and does it, and he has no patience with government. As I frequently say about George, he’s the only man in the U.S. who has his own foreign policy—and can implement it.” When I told Strobe Talbott, the Deputy Secretary of State, about Abramowitz’s remark, Talbott, referring to Soros’s foreign policy, responded, “I would say that it is not identical to the foreign policy of the U.S. government—but it’s compatible with it. It’s like working with a friendly, allied, independent entity, if not a government. We try to synchronize our approach to the former Communist countries with Germany, France, Great Britain—and with George Soros,” he added with a grin.
As Steve Talbot said, American foreign policy is prepared and executed in tandem with the policies and programmes led by George Soros.
As per his own admission, his foundations are subversive. And he wears many masks while he indulges in double-speak to do what he believes he needs to do. A tactic Soros used in Georgia to topple the Government there and also in other “colour revolutions”. He used deception, double-speak, and subversion in Georgia and Ukraine.
Urban Naxal Linked To Tribal’s Murder?
A Delhi University Professor had been charged, alongside Maoists and other individuals, with the murder of a tribal villager in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-affected Sukma district, according to police statements. A complaint was officially filed by the wife of that tribal victim.
This complaint then led to the registration of a First Information Report (FIR) against several notable individuals. The list of those accused included but was not limited to DU Professor Nandini Sundar, known for her significant contributions to academia, JNU Professor Archana Prasad, Vineet Tiwari, a representative from Joshi Adhikar Sansthan in Delhi and Sanjay Parate, who held the position of State Secretary for the Chhattisgarh CPI (Marxist). All of these individuals, among others, are being implicated in the murder of Baghel.
What was Baghel’s crime? Baghel and some of his associates were spearheading the protest against Naxal activities in their village.
Interestingly, earlier in May of that year, Baghel and other villagers from the region had lodged a complaint at the Tongpal Police Station against Sundar, Prasad, Tiwari, Parate, and an unidentified female activist from Sukma. They accused them of allegedly inciting innocent tribals against the Government and soliciting their support for the Maoists.
In 2018, this case came up for hearing at the Supreme Court. It was also the year of Chhattisgarh Assembly election. The case came up just before the elections. A large group of very senior attorneys came to the hearing to defend the Delhi University Professor. The case was adjourned. Unfortunately, the BJP lost those elections. When the regime changed, the Congress Government gave a clean chit to the five involved. And then, Shamnath Baghel’s wife Vimala later denied in a TV interview with NDTV that she had never named anyone in her complaint. Remember all this happened because one tribal person filed an FIR that these Urban Naxals, who were trying to push them to fight the police and he did not want to do that. All of these are Professors in the top universities in India.
Nalini Sundar, the Delhi University Professor named in the news, is the wife of Siddharth Vardarajan, the founder of the Leftist online magazine The Wire.
The question that one needs to ask is how big is the Deep State that works with such efficiency and in unison across different areas of social influence – terrorists, legal functionaries, police, political parties and the media? The penetration and power of the Deep State run its own governance while subverting societies at will.
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