Posted on 11/03/2022 10:16:25 AM PDT by DFG
A California professor and former CIA analyst said that white Christian men are poised to start a civil war in America
Barbara F. Walter, author of the 2022 book How Civil War Starts, made her inflammatory comments on PBS Tuesday evening while speaking with anchor Hari Sreenivasan.
Walter's remarks come just days before the midterm elections, which the left and right alike have been characterizing as a battle over democracy itself.
Sreenivasan asked Walter - who said she studied foreign nations on the brink of civil war for the CIA - how far off a war within the US could be.
Walter then went on to explain the past '100 years' showed that civil wars are typically started along divided religious and ethnic lines, when a previously dominant group begins to see their position wane.
She then went on to say that 'white men' who 'also tended to be Christian,' were beginning to see such a decline in their position in the US, and that they had 'almost exclusively' been the perpetrators of violent extremism in the country since 2008.
Walter is a professor of pacific international relations at the University of California San Diego. She describes herself as 'one of the world's leading experts on civil wars, political violence, and terrorism' on her website.
Her latest book claims that 'healthy democracies' tend to be safe from civil wars, but suggests the US is becoming increasingly unstable. Walter's website calls her book 'urgent and disturbing,' and says it is about identifying the signs of a civil war in the US in the hopes of avoiding one.
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How woke of him.
Great fear mongering. Evidence?
Patently false, but all the "cool kids" on TV like to repeat that.
White Woman setting up the Boogeyman in the woods to keep the kids from wandering too far from her
California
professor
former CIA analyst
Checking all the “I hate these United States” boxes in the first sentence, before vomiting even the first of the propaganda lies.
Only thing missing up front was...
Democrat
DOJ
PRONOUN preferences
No it did not. I was working in a defense agency and everyone was amazed at what happened in East Germany. Some people did say if instead of Gorbachev the Soviets were led by a guy his age with a real Russian disposition then it would have been much more ‘interesting’. Incidentally the CIA had no idea about what was happening in Iran in 1978=79 or what the Saddam regime really possessed in the way of special weapons. In both cases Stansfield Turner had convinced Jimmy Carter that no on the ground agents were needed with our satellite technology. Reagan could not get the CIA types to budge on that one as it would be seen as a humiliating admission of a big error even though the CIA higher ups knew it was a big problem. In washington what counts most is ‘process’ and never ever admitting being wrong.
Yes. In Columbus Ohio the BLM rioters destroyed property and controlled the downtown of the Capitol of the state of Ohio for days in 2020. The mayor ordered the police to stand down. Even for a lib I am surprised she doesn’t have a zucchini snoz.
Frankly, I never heard of the broad. Sorry, academic. I only worked in the field for thirty years, never trusted CFR members, and note that she has published just one book while going to ground in San Diego. I guess I run in the wrong circle.
And many of those ‘civil wars’ she studied around the world were INTENTIONALLY STARTED BY THE CIA.
Does she mention that in her little book?
CHECK, one more thing to get rid of ... PBS and funding for all government propaganda.
I’m sure the current mood has zero to do with blatantly stolen elections and govt controlled pravda media....impossible.
Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Lebanon, Egypt, Congo, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Viet Nam, Sudan, Serbia, etc., etc., etc. CIA failures are legion. It did have one lasting success, but no one remembers it: Indonesia.
Silly....those were justified responses to encroaching fascism.
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
Ronald Reagan
Oh yeah, well I guess. Just a vigorous over reaction I suppose.
I worked with a guy whose wife had been a former CIA analyst. Â They are a dime a dozen and all they did was take information from agents in the field to collate and hand to the next person who filed it or handed it to the next flunky.
California professor…
That tells me all I need to know.
Scary.
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