A Russian Asset Turns Up the Heat and Stirs the Pot
- john raymond
- Jun 8
- 2 min read
What we are witnessing in Los Angeles is not simply a protest. It is not merely civil unrest. It is the latest move in a dangerous game — a Kremlin-style operation executed not from Moscow, but from inside the White House. This isn’t hyperbole. It’s not speculation. It is a pattern, one we’ve seen before, and one that always follows the same steps: create chaos, amplify division, then claim absolute authority to “restore order.”
This week, the trigger was ICE — a federal police force increasingly acting like an unaccountable militia. Raids were conducted across Los Angeles in plain defiance of local leadership, targeting communities indiscriminately. Then, as outrage grew and citizens poured into the streets, President Donald Trump — a known Russian asset — escalated the crisis with breathtaking speed and brutality, deploying 2,000 federalized National Guard troops against the wishes of California’s elected leaders. Tear gas. Flashbangs. Rubber bullets. The optics weren’t incidental. They were the point.
Because this is the authoritarian playbook. It’s not just Russian. It’s universal among autocrats. Turn up the heat. Stir the pot. Wait for it to boil — and then seize dictitorial control when the system reacts. We’ve seen it in Belarus. In Hungary. In Turkey. In Russia itself. And now we’re watching it happen, in real time, in an American city with millions of residents, under the pretext of "immigration enforcement."
This moment is more than crisis. It is proof of strategy. President Trump’s move isn’t a miscalculation — it is an operation. The cruelty is not incidental. It is deliberate, methodical, and scripted. You could have written it down three months ago and been right. Because this is exactly what Russian-aligned actors do when they are weak, when their grip on legitimacy is slipping: they provoke. They bait. They break trust between federal and local authority. And when people respond — when outrage manifests in resistance — they weaponize that response to consolidate power.
Let’s be honest: Trump isn’t inventing this. He’s just speedrunning it. He has no time to slow-roll the shift toward authoritarianism, so he’s pulling every lever at once. This is not governance — it’s escalation. And it’s predictable. Absolutely, chillingly predictable.
You wanted to know what a second Trump term would look like? You’re now living in it. Raids. Militarized federal responses. National Guard deployed like imperial shock troops. Cities besieged not by terrorists or cartels but by their own government. And all of it justified by the lie that “we must restore law and order” — a lie that always starts with stoking fear and ends with the suppression of dissent.
But the truth is simpler than the propaganda: this is what a Russian asset does when given American power. He uses it. Against Americans. Against cities. Against immigrants. Against truth. He doesn’t even hide it. The Kremlin is proud.
And now that it’s happening in plain sight, the only question that remains is: how many more times does the pot have to boil before we admit who’s turning up the heat?
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