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Reverse Dullesification has been bouncing around in my head since I first encountered it
What's Dullesification in the first place? never heard of it
the development of all of the soft power methods to go with the overt and covert “hard power” methods in a comprehensive strategy of anti-communism and
primacy. Everything from operation bloodstone to gladio to voa to usaid and the blend of state dept and intelligence agency policy and strategy to subordinate “the west” to the aims of an anti-communist and capital friendly order that upholds the ‘proper order of things’ aka superimperialism
I don't think setting out OSS handlers to guide Baltic Nazis into lining leftists against a wall and shooting them is soft power
It is when you’re comparing it to the US military going in and saying “We are the US military invading your country” and lining leftists up against the wall themselves
no that would fall under the “overt and covert hard power”. what made the success of the Dulles bros approach was the marriage of all these methods as mutually supportive and directed to the same ends
the dulles brothers were largely responsible for shaping the anti-left infrastructure during the cold war, they were horrible murderous guys but they understood what they were doing, unlike the failsons of today
"the inmates are running the asylum"
The generation of pragmatic real-politik cold warriors has given way to a generation of ideologues high on their own supply.