Olavo de Carvalho and His Nonsense on Trump and Russia
By Julio
Severo
Olavo
de Carvalho, a Brazilian famous for advocating the revisionism of
the Inquisition,
which tortured and murdered Jews and evangelicals, said several days ago:
“After all, is Trump a mad war-monger who is going to bomb Russia or he is a
Russian agent who is going to pour out dollars on Moscow? Because the U.S.
media accuses him of both things, it is obvious that he is neither of them.”
And of
course, as confirmed by WND, one of the most prominent
conservative websites in the world, Trump has been praising the Russian
president and showing willingness to be friend with Russia.
However,
in spite of what Carvalho asserts, the mainstream media does not accuse Trump
of being “a mad war-monger who is going to bomb Russia.” They only accuse him
of being a mad war-monger who wants to bomb the Islamic State. They also accuse
him of praising Vladimir Putin and wanting a U.S. alliance with Russia against ISIS.
Last
Wednesday, Trump declared on TV that Putin is a better leader than U.S.
President Barack Obama, according to Reuters, which mentioned, “…Trump’s praise of Putin and his suggestion that the United States and
Russia form an alliance to defeat Islamic State militants.”
And
last Thursday, Trump was interviewed by Russia Today, a news service backed by the
Russian government, to give his view on accusations that a covert plan of
Russian intelligence is interfering with U.S. elections and creating distrust
among American voters.
“I
don’t know. I’ve been hearing about it. I’ve been reading about it. I think
it’s probably unlikely,” Trump said.
If
Trump had Carvalho’s mindset, he would not accept an interview from a Russian
news service because he thinks this news outlet is part of a spy network and
that everything written by Russians — except for the Washington toadies in
Russia, of course — is lying propaganda, especially the reports that can be
readily verified. If he accepted the interview, obedient neocon that he is, he
might say, “It is very likely that Russia is interfering. And do you know what?
Russia created ISIS.” But Trump is not Carvalho.
Carvalho’s
mind is so fixated on Russia that whenever the U.S. press says that Trump is
going to do something against the Islamic State, Carvalho sees only the word
“Russia.”
When
you search Google with “Trump” and “bomb” as key words, you get numerous hits
directly pointing to news headlines like “Trump wants to bomb ISIS, the Islamic
State.” Let us see:
·
Donald
Trump promises to ‘bomb the hell out of ISIS’ in new radio ad — Washington
Post.
·
DONALD
TRUMP: ‘I would bomb the s— out of’ ISIS — Business Insider
·
Trump
Vows If He Becomes President, He Will Bomb ISIS Into Extinction. — AWM
·
Trump:
US has ‘no choice but to bomb’ ISIS in Libya — The Hill
When
you include the key word “Russia” to “Trump” and “bomb” in the Google search, you
find not comments by Trump wanting to bomb Russia, but comments by Putin on
bombing ISIS. So both Trump and Putin want to bomb ISIS. They have the same
goal. This is one important reason both praise one another.
Perhaps,
by using a crystal ball, Carvalho saw that Trump wants to bomb Russia. But his
personal fantasies are no reason or basis for him to accuse the U.S. mainstream
media of saying what they have never said. Truth was raped to benefit the sentiments
of an anti-Russia activist.
The
mainstream media is mistaken on many things, but Carvalho falsely accused it of
something it never said, namely, that Trump wants to bomb Russia. But this
media has no time or willingness to answer the false accusation of a Brazilian
immigrant who fancies himself a brilliant philosopher but is unknown in the U.S.
(even though he has lived in the United States for more than ten years).
Things
have soured for Carvalho and his “big knowledge” and “honesty.” He spent years
putting Russia at the center of all evil in the universe and now, countering
all his political obsessions, comes an American presidential candidate who puts
Islamic terror at the center of political concerns and openly praises Russia.
To keep up his reputation as a conservative, he is obliged to make an odd
bedfellow with this Trump fellow, but he is clearly not comfortable with the
arrangement (which Trump does not know anything about) and has little
understanding of Trump’s ideas.
The
only thing left for him to do is to hide his head like an ostrich in his hole
of illusions that protect the Islamic State from Trump’s bombs and put Russia
in its place.
Or perhaps,
as a professional astrologer (which he is), he is subconsciously predicting
that the American candidate will do what he has imagined, or keeps imagining
and saying that Trump is going to bomb Russia, when what the U.S. press said
very clearly is that he wants to bomb the Islamic State.
Usually,
Carvalho has a marked and worn card against anyone minimally praising the
Russian President Vladimir Putin. He calls his victim of duginist. “Duginist”
is a reference to the adherents of the Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin,
who, according to Carvalho’s exaggerations, is the most prominent conservative
or leader in Russia.
In
2015, Raymond Ibrahim, evangelical author of the best-selling book “Crucified
Again,” which shows how Christians in the Middle East are being slaughtered by
Muslims, wrote the article “Russia Declares ‘Holy War’ on Islamic
State.” The report
received positive feedback, especially from evangelical readers. Even Trump has
praised the Russian fight against ISIS. But a Carvalho
assistant, who is a member of the Carvalho led-Inter-American Institute,
strongly protested
the positive representation of Russia as Christian and conservative by
evangelical Ibrahim, averring that Russian conservatism was a “strategy.”
In
the 1990s, when I was involved with Catholic leaders, evangelical leaders also often
said that Pope John 2 and his pro-life activism were a Vatican “strategy.”
I am
glad to have cooperated with both pro-life “strategies,” not because I am an
ecumenical Christian, but because whether is the Vatican or the Russian
Orthodox Church, their pro-life stances deserve our support. While I do not
support most their religious doctrines, I wholeheartedly their pro-family work.
In
this point, considering Carvalho’s insistent rejection of all pro-family initiatives
from Russia, some might think that perhaps strategy is what the Inter-American
Institute has been up to, drawing evangelicals and Catholics for the supposed
purpose of pro-life and pro-family activism when the real motivation of his
founder and his close assistant is anti-Russian activism.
As a
basis for his accusation of Russian “strategy,” the Inter-American Institute
member and Carvalho assistant mentioned “Aleksandr Dugin” in his protest in Ibrahim’s article, presenting
Dugin as the most powerful man in Russia.
I
attended the most important conservative meeting in
Russia in 2014,
with another Inter-American Institute member and many international conservative
Orthodoxies, Catholics, Protestants and Jews, and Dugin did not put in an
appearance. Dugin is, by the way, an admirer of René Guénon, a Catholic French
who had converted to esoteric Islam.
Oddly,
other Guénon’s admirer is Carvalho himself, who translated into Portuguese one
of Guénon’s books. Carvalho helped found in Brazil the first tariqa, an Islamic
esoteric center that teaches a kind of Muslim witchcraft, and one of his sons
is an active Muslim. Even though Carvalho seems today to reject partially some
of those past experiences, many of his articles praise and recommend Guénon.
Besides
calling them duginist, Carvalho also frequently accuses those minimally
praising Russia of being Putinists, KGB agents or Russian agents.
With
Trump’s arrival and his comments supportive of Putin and Russia, Carvalho’s
anti-Russia arguments fell apart. He does not dare to accuse Trump of being a
Kremlin agent, but he circumvents the hazards by planting in the minds of his followers
the forged image of a Trump who is “accused” of praising Russia — when actually
his praises are largely proved and recorded by the powerful U.S. conservative
press — and of a Trump who is accused of wanting to bomb Russia. This is indeed
a blatant false accusation, made up exclusively to replace Carvalho’s knee-jerk
accusations against anyone praising Russia.
The
accusation that Trump is a “Russian agent” is not a conservative one. It is a
neocon accusation leveled at all American groups or individuals appreciating the
positive and conservative aspects of modern Russia. A former CIA director also accused Trump
of being a Russian agent
and said that he intends to vote for Hillary Clinton.
So
the candidate most compatible for anti-Russian activists like Carvalho is
Hillary. Left-wing billionaire George Soros also
supports Hillary and he is anti-Russia.
While
Trump has praised Russia and his advisers were supporting pro-Russian
forces in Ukraine,
Carvalho has openly praised the Ukrainian revolution as the best democratic
example against dictatorship. The Ukrainian revolution was the biggest Soros
revolution, massively funded by him.
“It is unlikely that many average
citizens in the West are aware that ISIS is fighting on the side of the Ukraine
nationalists. If they were, public opinion might drastically shift towards
support for Russia — as it should. Better to have Ukraine be a proxy state of
Russia than yet another budding member of the global Islamic Caliphate taking
shape.”
In
regard to this article, Steve Baldwin, a member of the Inter-American
Institute, said,
“Freedom loving people all over the
world who grew up during the Cold War years learned to hate the Soviet Union
and with good reason. Communism stamped out all freedom and Soviet-style
communism was constantly trying to acquire more territory. But that
paradigm has changed. Unfortunately, there are many political leaders,
both in the USA and elsewhere, who don’t understand that the Cold War is over
and that there are new threats to deal with and new alliances that need to be
formed. Putin may not be a perfect leader but freedom loving people all
over the world have far more in common with the Russian people than they do
with radial jihadists. His [Sierra Rayne’s] article reveals the Jihadist
alliance with some factions in the Ukraine and suggests that the USA form an
alliance with Russia to fight the growing jihadist threat.”
The
paradigm has really changed, and left Carvalho far away not only from Trump,
but also from members of his own institute. But it has not left him far away
from Soros and his old school.
Carvalho
founded the first school of astrologers in Brazil. But how can his crystal ball
accurately see the future if he inaccurately sees the present?
Reality: Trump wants to bomb the Islamic
State.
Fantasy: The crystal-ball of the Brazilian astrologer-philosopher
says that U.S. media is accusing Trump of wanting to bomb Russia.
Fact: Such accusation is nonexistent in
the U.S. media, resulting in two possible interpretations for the
astrologer-philosopher’s lies:
1.
He
is a cheat who deceives to his own advantage.
2.
He
is a sophisticated clown who uses a philosophical circus to amuse the Brazilian
public.
In
both cases, the result is the same: audience growth. In Brazil, it is not
impossible to be a clown in political affairs and succeed in increasing one’s
audience. Tiririca, a semiliterate clown, became a famous Brazilian
congressman.
In addition
to accusing the U.S. press of saying Trump wants to bomb Russia, Carvalho
insists on fanciful self-propaganda, bragging that he alone is responsible for
the downfall of the socialist Dilma Rousseff administration in Brazil, when
even the U.S. conservative big media does not grant him such glory. CBN, headed
by Pat Robertson (who was a Republican presidential candidate in the 1980s),
did not grant the esoteric Catholic Carvalho such glory in the report “President’s Impeachment Shows Growing
Evangelical Power in Brazil.”
WND also did not grant him such glory in the article “The lesson for U.S. in fall of Brazil
regime.”
Yet,
who cares? Not Carvalho, who does not see the downfall of Rousseff as an
important event. Recently, he said that infinitely more important than removing
Rousseff from the Brazilian government is to eliminate from people’s conscience
the “myth” of the Inquisition, as if this bloody machine had not tortured and
killed Jews and evangelicals.
So he
is obsessed with advocating a revisionist
image of the Inquisition. See this video where he says that all the torture
tools of the Inquisition were made up and never existed: https://youtu.be/Cpq8eaAy7JY
He is
also obsessed with attacking Russia every day, abundantly, as if Putin were
Osama bin Laden and Russia were ISIS.
Meanwhile,
Trump’s focus is ISIS. According to Trump, ISIS was created by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Putin has said the same thing. But I would not be surprised at all
if Carvalho tried to suggest that Russia created ISIS, because his automatic
answer on all universe’s evils has been to blame Russia. Interestingly,
prominent neocons do blame Russia for the creation of ISIS.
In
terms of the dangers facing civilization, Carvalho’s focus is not Islam.
Perhaps he is not actively involved in Islamic affairs today because he has had
extensive involvement in the past. He has already read and memorized the Koran
in Arabic and has received an award from the Saudi government for a Mohammed
biography he wrote.
While
Trump’s and conservatives’ focus has been Islam and its terror and the immigrant
invasion in the U.S. and Europe, Carvalho’s focus continues to be Russia, his
whipping boy for all seasons. He cannot avoid it: he is the most prominent
anti-Russian activist in Brazil, even though he is an immigrant in America.
He is
very lucky. Obama’s immigration policies are the most generous in the U.S.
history. Largely under Obama, Carvalho has kept his survival as an immigrant,
and basically he does what Obama does: he focusses on Russia, not Islamic
terror, as the biggest threat.
With
a crystal ball in his mind and his heart, it is easy for an
astrologer-philosopher to ignore reality, despise objectivity and see imaginary
threats.
So
blame it on the crystal ball!
Read also “Olavo de Carvalho” in Conservapedia.
Portuguese
version of this article: Olavo de Carvalho e seus absurdos sobre Trump e a
Rússia
Source: Last Days Watchman
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