One of the greatest and most powerful weapons our enemies have to use against Americans is our gullibility to believe what we read on social media. Russia, China, and North Korea are the three most adept at creating dissension through the spreading of conspiracies they created.

            The fourth enemy is the greed of some Americans like Alex Jones to piggyback on the conspiracies of foreign groups to advance themselves. Fox and several podcasts help to advance the division by using those created conspiracies to increase viewership for their private and corporate sponsors.

            Putin thought his efforts with Trump, the GOP, his agents, the broadcast media like Fox, and social media had weakened our connection with NATO and other alliances to allow him to invade Ukraine. With Trump’s divisive tactics gone and Biden’s resumption of leadership of the Free World, Putin found the World united against him.

            Every divisive comment made here gets replayed in Russia and China. Many of those divisive comments are made by a former President who had secret meetings with Putin, his representatives, and Russian billionaires. Millions of Americans have been duped into believing his comments are for them and not just to boost his ego at America’s expense.

            Authoritarianism destroys Democracy. Many countries are finding Democracy has slipped away. Many states are governed by people using social, broadcast, and cable news to take their citizen’s Democratic rights away, one at a time.