MSNBC national security analyst Malcolm Nance offered a conspiracy theory of a decades old information warfare campaign against the U.S. by the Russian Federation on the Monday night edition of MSNBC's The 11th Hour with host Brian Williams.
Nance said for 20 years the Russian have been running a disinformation campaign against the U.S. so we would "welcome" an invasion.
What’s more, he claimed Moscow was targeting POTUS Trump as early as 2011 “and that the Russians targeted Mueller and black voters in an effort to aid Trump,”
"What Russia has done here and where the true brilliance of this intelligence operation comes from is way back in the early 2000s the Russian military conducted a strategic study and started carrying out a disinformation plan in which they said that instead of carrying out kinetic warfare against your enemies, the best thing we can do is create a disinformation and frame around that nation to the point where over time as we are constantly tearing them apart and feeding them with false information, they would actually welcome an invasion. So Russia has done that to the United States," Nance claimed.Nance said "memes and tropes" used in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign were the equivalent of "cruise missiles."
Brian Williams was stunned and concluded the segment by telling viewers this "needs to be said" and "needs to be heard.""Wow," Williams said. "Malcolm Nance, this is why we ask you all the time to come on this broadcast. Scary stuff, but it needs to be said. Needs to be heard. Thank you, sir, so much for joining us once again."
Russians are racists too, apparently, because Nance — who is African American — repeated a well-worn Left-wing talking point: Moscow worked to “suppress the black vote” too.
“This is how effective this information warfare campaign has been carried out,” Nance said. “And let me tell you, this report shows how they went after to suppress the African-American vote and there`s no doubt in my mind or anybody else`s in the intelligence community that doesn`t believe that it took American citizens to assist them in really getting down to where these voters were who needed to be suppressed and they did it in such a fashion, one of their Twitter groups had 366,000 followers on it.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Seems <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Tuck erCarlson</a> has never heard of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpRussia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5 Etfw">#TrumpRussia</a> Scandal or Russian disinformation warfare/hybrid warfare strategy. Someone send him the NATO Manual on Russian infowar or Senate & Oxford study links! Please help him find some facts! He’s drowning in stupid y’all! <a href="https://t.co/wDY5ydPDvf">https://t.co/wDY5ydPDvf</a></p>— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) <a href="https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/1075217809356087296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >December 19, 2018</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Nance said for 20 years the Russian have been running a disinformation campaign against the U.S. so we would "welcome" an invasion.
What’s more, he claimed Moscow was targeting POTUS Trump as early as 2011 “and that the Russians targeted Mueller and black voters in an effort to aid Trump,”
"What Russia has done here and where the true brilliance of this intelligence operation comes from is way back in the early 2000s the Russian military conducted a strategic study and started carrying out a disinformation plan in which they said that instead of carrying out kinetic warfare against your enemies, the best thing we can do is create a disinformation and frame around that nation to the point where over time as we are constantly tearing them apart and feeding them with false information, they would actually welcome an invasion. So Russia has done that to the United States," Nance claimed.Nance said "memes and tropes" used in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign were the equivalent of "cruise missiles."
Brian Williams was stunned and concluded the segment by telling viewers this "needs to be said" and "needs to be heard.""Wow," Williams said. "Malcolm Nance, this is why we ask you all the time to come on this broadcast. Scary stuff, but it needs to be said. Needs to be heard. Thank you, sir, so much for joining us once again."
Russians are racists too, apparently, because Nance — who is African American — repeated a well-worn Left-wing talking point: Moscow worked to “suppress the black vote” too.
“This is how effective this information warfare campaign has been carried out,” Nance said. “And let me tell you, this report shows how they went after to suppress the African-American vote and there`s no doubt in my mind or anybody else`s in the intelligence community that doesn`t believe that it took American citizens to assist them in really getting down to where these voters were who needed to be suppressed and they did it in such a fashion, one of their Twitter groups had 366,000 followers on it.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Seems <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Tuck erCarlson</a> has never heard of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpRussia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5 Etfw">#TrumpRussia</a> Scandal or Russian disinformation warfare/hybrid warfare strategy. Someone send him the NATO Manual on Russian infowar or Senate & Oxford study links! Please help him find some facts! He’s drowning in stupid y’all! <a href="https://t.co/wDY5ydPDvf">https://t.co/wDY5ydPDvf</a></p>— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) <a href="https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/1075217809356087296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >December 19, 2018</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
