"Red Dawn" Cult of Madness

[EndtheMadnessNow]

One of the students of the type of "counterinsurgency" Red Dawn teaches (planned out in large part by Alexander Haig) was Timothy McVeigh, who cited the film as a major influence. The article says the US should apply the same lessons to taiwan to defeat China.

The lessons in Red Dawn about insurgent warfare also apply to Taiwan, where the U.S. government is helping to make the island reorganize their national guard and reserve forces to prepare for partisan warfare, Waltz added. Laying the groundwork for a Taiwanese insurgency is meant to deter a Chinese invasion.

By the end of Red Dawn, most of the Wolverines have been killed, but their service to the United States is memorialized in a U.S. National Park Service monument. One of the enduring lessons of the film is a warning to any would-be invaders: No rallying cry is more powerful than “Avenge me!”
Task & Purpose

Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh (2016; pg 190) by Wendy S. Painting, PhD.

"Red Dawn" a 1984 film directed by John Milius, was the movie Mr. McVeigh loved most. He watched it over and over. Not surprisingly, it is a cult film of the far right. The Arizona Patriots, a survivalist group arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1986 just before they embarked on a scheme to rob armored cars to finance their bombing of power plants, dams, synagogues and abortion clinics, watched "Red Dawn" in their primitive encampment on a V.C.R. powered by a portable generator.
NY Times (Dec 31, 1995)

Alexander Haig (4-star General, Sec of State, Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Ronald Reagan’s “I-am-in-control” top aide) was a member of the MGM board of directors. He yearned to develop a movie career. He supervised the development of the movie Red Dawn and made significant changes to it.
Variety (June 16, 1997)

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Just a little add-on regarding Timothy McVeigh Bitchute Link:

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Just a little add-on regarding Timothy McVeigh Bitchute Link:

Yes, noteworthy vid. Some may call this weird but I vividly remember exactly where I was/what I was doing when that bomb went off. That was a shock 'n awe moment for me. I've suspected for a long time he was sheepdipped. Sure were an awful lotta bombs going off in the 90s and the intel shenanigans continue to this day to push agendas & policies.

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I think pResident Biden has said "MAGA" more times than Trump.


https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1567524341386018817


When Satire Becomes Reality







Today, in 1984, the Reagan's watched John Milius's RED DAWN at Camp David.


Reagan's Daily Diary


The Camp David viewing of RED DAWN as described in "Movie Nights with the Reagans" by Mark Weinberg. MGM-UA board member and script consultant Al Haig loved it!







Al Haig on RED DAWN.

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I think pResident Biden has said "MAGA" more times than Trump.

What I have noticed most about Premier Biden's MAGA mentions is this - it always just goes "MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, ULTRAMAGA, MAGA MAGA." He mentions MAGA'S alleged "attempts to destroy democracy" (BTW, "democracy" was something Thomas Jefferson was rabidly against, noting that mob rule would cause the downfall of America), but never, EVER, offering any concrete examples of just what they have done to accomplish that alleged goal. Instead of mentioning any examples, he just says "MAGA!" again, leading me to believe that he HAS no examples to offer.

When one cries "WOLF!" one time too many, there had damned well better be a wolf somewhere in the vicinity, or the sleepy farmers who have had enough of being roused in the middle of the night for no good reason might just string the failed watchman up.

It makes me want to shout at the White House "links, or it never happened!"

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Regarding the movie "Red Dawn", I love the original incarnation, but the remake not so much. It was realistic in some particulars, such as the fact that if you plan on living on the run in the woods and striking from the shadows, you'd best also plan on going hungry a lot and watching most of your friends die. The invasion part was not so realistic, given the fact that the US is insulated from invasion by some pretty big oceans that would overextend the enemy's supply chains and make an invasion impractical.

At that time, there was a phobia of Russians in the US, and several TV shows and movies were made to take advantage of that phobia. There was one that involved a Russian invasion through Alaska, where the AK National Guard had to defend and stop it's advance through mountains of snow. There was a miniseries called "Amerika" where the Soviets took over the US government, which was eerily similar to the government we actually have now. More realistic (but still not very realistic) TV movies involved a nuclear exchange that so many were paranoid about, like "The Day After".

Be afraid, be VERY afraid. Errybody gunna DIE! It's the American Way!

When "Red Dawn" was made, I was already very familiar with the AK-74 and Russian camo, and noticed that the "AK-74's" that the Spetnaz troops were using were really just Egyptian Maadi AKM's with red-painted magazines and fake muzzle brakes. You can tell because the mags are too curved and the muzzle brakes aren't shaped or mounted right. The KLMK camo that the Spetnaz were wearing and that some of the Wolverines adopted was faked up from black and white photos that had been surreptitiously taken of East German troops on maneuver with some Russian troops. and the color scheme was way off because they had been working from black and white photos to try to reproduce it. I actually have a Russian KLMK oversuit that was taken out of the rucksack of a dead Russian sniper in Afghanistan in 1987. When you compare it to the movie version, the color differences are obvious.

His tunic here is an example of the faked KLMK -



In reality, it is only two colors - light green and a darker green, or the darker green and a yellowish color. The suit I have is made out of some cotton burlap-like fabric, and poorly sewn. looks like it was not made to last, and the only reason this suit still exists is probably because I have it packed away in a rucksack together with some other foreign cammies I've gathered up over the years.

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