WESTERN SNOUTS ARE DEEP IN THE THINK TANK TROUGH

You don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Neither should you disappoint the mind that controls the hand. You must deliver what’s required to keep the gravy train chugging along.

Certain western state institutions are willing to pay big bucks if you toe the line and deliver what’s needed.

And what appears to be needed in copious amounts is anything that reflects badly on Russia.

This is quite an easy task when you needn’t have any evidence to back up your claims and can rely on anonymous state officials who are passengers on the same gravy train as you.

Turkeys wouldn’t vote for Christmas they say. And those getting all the perks and big salaries in think tanks havn’t got where they are today without knowing which side of their bread is buttered.

Fear is the key. Nobody gets paid for saying everything is A-OK now do they?

They must really scratch their heads to come up with something new though. But if you keep repeating a variation on the same theme, for instance electoral interference, then you are on pretty safe ground... why you are pretty well assured you will hit pay dirt there. And the more dirt the more you get paid. The job is not exactly rocket science.

All expenses paid, swanky five-star accommodation, multiple allowances and six figure salaries.

Most people won’t kill such a golden goose laying one big, golden russophobic egg after another now would they?

As Dire Straits once sang. It’s money for nothing. Well, almost.

It only costs your integrity. And there are plenty of people out there who can’t find any use for the darn thing. It simply never paid.

But now they’ve found a never-ending, ever-replenished trough in the State Department and Foreign Office combined farmyard.

It may get a little dirty round these pigs it’s true... but a quick shower down and rub down back at the Hilton will clean ‘em all up of for the next roll around in the shit tomorrow.

It’s a hard job. But someone has to do it.

Isn’t it lucky that enemies can be invented. Whatever would the West do if there was peace with not one enemy to be found.

The poor dears with their snouts in the empty think tank trough would die of starvation.

As would all those working for “defense” companies who make $trillions from death and destruction.

And we can’t have that now, can we?

That shitshow and the trough dwellers who have learned to feed it simply MUST go on.

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Follow the Money: How US Think Tanks are Cashing in on Scaremongering About 'Evil Russia'.

15.03.2021

https://sputniknews.com/us/202103151082339132-follow-the-money-how-us-think-tanks-are-cashing-in-on-scaremongering-about-evil-russia/

‘Twenty-two angry Atlantic Council members recently denounced a "pro-Russia" article written by the think tank's two "apostates", Emma Ashford and Mathew Burrows, and signalled their strong disagreement with the report's arguments and values. What's really behind their "righteous" anger?’

‘"New Europe", including Poland, the Baltic States, and Ukraine remain heavily dependent on US money which they receive in response to their "continuous barrage of complaints about evil Russia's plots and underhanded activities", the academic says. Judging from USAID data, in FY2019 Ukraine received $588 million from the US; Estonia received $119 million; Lithuania got $112 million; Latvia received $45 million; Poland raked in $14 million.’