Over the last 30 years the US and USSR-Russia have researched psychic phenomena, hypnosis and propaganda techniques. Some bore fruit and some did not.
The two countries diverged in their research some time ago. The CIA was interested in using hypnosis to individually forget and hide things but Russia went big and applied it to mass attitude change.

While the CIA was stuck in the rut of perception is reality, their program grew stale.

Russia went big and made reality change apply to millions at a time.
It was a long held goal for them.

You might say propaganda is propaganda. To the Russians it is a much more serious matter. They even have us questioning truth, the NYT and the reality of a post truth world.


The reason why I went into this field was to avoid repeating the past.
The past being crazy insane fascist people taking over a government.

Our CIA were bad boys all right but they were short sighted bad boys.
It is still hard for them to accept my premise. It would be admitting they were wrong about something from the beginning.

The idea of psychic warfare or the war for the hearts and minds looks much different today than we ever thought it would.

Bottom line...It is happening. We are at war.