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Nick Freitas: The first stage of psychological warfare is already here

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The greatest threat to America isn’t military invasion or economic collapse — but a slow, conscious effort to change how Americans perceive reality itself. In a discussion on psychological warfare and ideological subversion, BlazeTV host Nick Freitas revisits a famous Cold War-era warning from former KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov, who argued that nations can be weakened from within through a decades-long process of demoralization. “Psychological warfare,” Bezmenov began in his now famous warning. “What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.” “It’s a great brainwashing process, which goes very slow, and it’s divided in four basic stages,” he continued. The first stage, Bezmenov said, is “demoralization.” “It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation