An audio clipping of a Twitter Spaces discussion has gone viral where Mike Benz, a former senior diplomat of the US State Department reveals how the US funds organizations to interfere in Indian elections.
Mike Benz was Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Communications and Information Technology at the US State Department. He had also served as a White House speechwriter for President Trump and advised on tech matters.
Mike Benz explained how US State Department was funding various entities in Indian media to create a narrative against Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the 2019 general elections.
Mike Benz said, “When democracy is used by any proxy of the foreign policy establishment, it’s used to create a predicate for regime change, for a change in that country’s elected government. Principally in order to control various political, media, social, and cultural levers to give basically more freedom and leeway to state departments and intelligence whose influence is limited by state action in that targeted country. I thought of the India thing for a long time. Because I remember very vividly in 2019 when the Atlantic Council was holding conferences about what to do about India and the problem of internet and communications freedom in India because it was leading people to be Modi supporters and Modi was perceived as a populist sort of a part of a new non-aligned movement.”
He said, “The thorny role that India played on the side of the state Department in the national security state during portions of the cold war. When you see this right now with the fact Modi is basically non-aligned on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. You have got declarations by the Indian financial minister who has talked about how they are going to continue to basically buy Russian oil and gas. There is the purchasing of arms and other equipment. And India plays a very very important role with respect to America’s foreign policy vis-a-vis China.”
He further said “So, India lose very large. And Modi’s nationalist proclivities make it a unstable and sometimes adversarial piece on the state department chessboard. They want somebody in there who is like a Trudeau who is like Annalena Baerbock in Germany essentially.”
Mike Benz explained how Annalena Baerbock who is the Foreign Minister of Germany was groomed by NATO and that the Green Party, which was backed by NATO, was being used as a proxy to shut down the Nord Stream pipeline on regulatory grounds over basically climate-type pretext.
“She is the perfect photocopy replica of the picture-perfect vassal state of the Western interest.”, he said.
Mike Benz also said, “I support Western interests but there are dirty tricks. There’s fair play and there’s dirty tricks. And what they are doing with Modi is dirty tricks. We have lived through three years of high-intensity Russia Gate over a hundred thousand dollars in Facebook ads. And we have got probably thirty million dollars at least that have flowed from the state departments to do the same thing in India somewhat explicitly. Because this is all done through the Atlantic Council, global engagement standards and USAID and funding of different pop-up censorship mercenary groups that we send over there under the guise of saying ‘oh well, they’re fact-checking groups, or these are digital resilience groups, or media literacy groups’. But what they are is they are censorship mercenaries who put pressure on Indian civil society and communications platforms in order to stop the ability of Modi supporters from accessing other party mines. It’s very similar to what they did in Brazil with Bolsanaro when they basically got Sergis Moro (currently Minister of Justice and Public Security and former federal judge) and the court system there to ban Telegram when Telegram said that it would not censor so-called misinformation. The High Court in Brazil not only banned Telegram but they put a criminal penalty for accessing Telegram and a $10000 fine by VPN.”
He implied that what the US did with Brazil to bring a regime change by overthrowing Jair Bolsanaro, they’re trying to do the same with India.
US Govt's former state dept employee exposes how America uses state funded organizations to interfere in Indian elections to enact regime change. This is Sensational. Nothing but outright war.pic.twitter.com/BYtj3pdDHi
— Cogito (@cogitoiam) May 20, 2023
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