A Color Map of the Fronts of World War III

From American Thinker.com (Feb. 10):

Almost forty years ago, KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov warned of an assault on the West via leftist ideological subversion.  Borrowing from a classic Sesame Street routine, he asked American leaders to unplug the bananas from their ears.  Few heard him.  So, our enemies have been able to erode respect for the sacred ideals of the West -- individual rights, free enterprise, law and order, national sovereignty, and limited government. They have enmeshed us in a non-kinetic World War III.  Most citizens of democratic societies don’t even realize it’s taking place.

Over the decades, the fronts in this invisible war have multiplied.  This is in keeping with Unrestricted Warfare, a 1999 book on strategy by two Chinese air force colonels that updated Sun Tzu’s maxims on overwhelming the enemy with a profusion of strategies and fronts.  Among those identifying with Americans is Kenneth Abramowitz, founder of a remarkable organization called Save The West and author of The Multifront War: Defending America from Political Islam, China, Russia, Pandemics and Racial Strife.  America is up against a protean enemy of criminal intent and is unprepared to fight in any meaningful, unified way, he says.  By color-coding the enemies, he has illuminated the multitudinous perils we face.

According to Abramowitz, the chief enemies within are the Reds, the Greens, and the Blues.  Together, they fight against the Yellows, representing the sunlight of Western civilization, founded on the 3,800-year-old Judeo-Christian traditions and the 250-year-old tradition of secular, constitutional law.  The Reds are the communists -- China, Russia, North Korea, and the American Left.  The Greens are the Islamists -- Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, and hundreds of Islamist groups around the world.  The Blues, named for the color of the United Nations, are the globalists -- the WHO, the International Criminal Court, NGOs, and multinational corporations like Facebook, Twitter, and Google.  Sacrificing American values, they have adopted Chinese morality to pursue profit in the huge market that is communist China.

Abramowitz identifies a fourth, passive enemy -- the Whites (named for the flag of surrender).  He also calls them the isolationists, average citizens who live their lives and do their jobs but do not engage with the issues du jour, believing they are immune to political winds and potential threats.  They unwittingly aid and abet the Reds, Greens, and Blues.

The Reds, the Greens, and the Blues have infiltrated Western societies and gained substantial influence and control over politicians, institutions, the media, and Big Tech.  Abramowitz says they operate in six arenas -- physical, cultural, economic, demographic, legal, and cyber.

Physical warfare, although kinetic, does not always involve combat.  It includes the stealthy use of biological and chemical weapons – for example, pathogens such as anthrax and the coronavirus, and addictive substances like the opioid fentanyl, whose trafficking into the U.S. from Mexico resulted in 100,000 American deaths last year. 

Cultural warfare constitutes the framing of narratives that engender fear and doubt and destroy societal norms.  Some of these narratives aim to suppress certain kinds of speech while redefining, neutralizing, and weaponizing other kinds -- like in ‘newspeak’ from Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.  Such narratives are propagated by a growing army of operatives in academia, the media, the educational system, and organizations such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa. 

Academia -- chiefly leftist humanities departments in universities -- has been most effective in recruiting and training that army by indoctrinating impressionable young students with Critical Race Theory (CRT), the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) paradigm, and fallacious theories of gender fluidity.  Hypnotized by vague but thrilling theories, their youthful idealism hijacked by specious arguments, they begin to nurse messianic notions.  On graduating, they eagerly join in the revision of national history and the calumniation of religious and ethical principles. [read more]