https://www.theepochtimes.com/patrick-byrne-china-is-taking-us-out-from-within_36
Patrick Byrne, founder and former CEO of Overstock, said that China is “taking us out from within” during an interview with Dr. Jerome Corsi on Monday.
“The greatest way to fight a war, in the Chinese way of thinking, is not to have to fight at all. That’s what they’ve done here,” Byrne said.
Byrne studied Chinese history at Beijing Normal University from 1983 to 1984. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese studies from Dartmouth College.
“Though we spend a trillion dollars a year between our military and our intelligence, national security circles … that trillion dollars we have and we’ve built, you know, things that can stop all their planes and their missiles and all kinds of things. But we missed the one they use, which is not a fight at all, not firing a bullet or missile at all, but taking us out from within. And that’s what’s going on.”
Byrne pointed out that the Chinese regime is engaged in “a slow coup.”
“It’s a revolution. The stages of such a revolution are very well mapped out. We understand this. It’s demoralization, disorientation, crisis, then normalization: those four steps.”
“The demoralization is what happened this year with COVID,” Byrne continued.
“The disorientation is this kookiness we’ve been seeing for about six months,” Byrne said, referring to Antifa, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other things, such as buildings and police stations being lit on fire, and people being harassed for their political views while out dining.
“That’s all to disorient you. It’s to tell you, ‘You are not living in the America you thought you were living in,’” he said.
“The crisis is, clearly an imposter president has been stood up,” Byrne added in reference to the contested election results.
He asserted that Beijing only needed to secure six counties to steal the election.