I've never watched the Amazon Prime JACK RYAN show and never had any interest to, but I saw this clip today of the character played by John Krasinski and thought I'd share it b/c it does exactly what I speak about regarding Hollywood being a propaganda apparatus of US imperalism.

In this scene, Jack is speaking to a group of operatives in training(?), and he references the usual countries as being enemies of US might: Russia and China, but what makes it interesting to me is that he also mentions Venezuela and says that it's also a potential nuclear threat

What makes it interesting is that he, i.e., the writers acting as messengers of the US gov't, places Venezuela as on equal footing if not a more probable threat to the US with two countries that have far bigger armies and nuclear weapons, and justifies it because of the oil there

The other thing is that in the filming, the camera is made to focus on the indivual attendees and it's not a coincidence that the actors it lands on are Black men and women, representing the racial demographics of the very people US media has been pitting against Latin immigrants

Also, notice the map projected on the wall; it shows and arrow gowing from Venezula over the Caribbean chain of islands and points directly to New York, a not so subtle subliminal message to make audience think if 9/11 and see Venezuela as a threat to US national security.

I chose to post about this in particular b/c JACK RYAN aired from 2018 to 2023, and here we are just 2 years later with the US gov't casually murdering Black and Latin men from Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela, as US news media spreads propaganda and lies about drug trafficking.

THAT is not a coincidence. I've repeatedly said that what the Trump administration is doing now didn't start with them. The Biden administration was making moves to claim and steal access to the oul reserves in Venezuela (and Gaza) and prepping for an invasion...

and this show JACK RYAN (and others) was telegraphing this to subliminally condition Americans to accept the messaging to not see the Venezuelan people as victims of possible/probable US aggression, but to think of the country as an enemy entity that deserves to be attacked.

That scene was written and filmed before the US started openly murdering Black and Latin men from the Caribbean and South America. They knew what was coming and were prepping American audiences to manufacture consent for war, genocide, and theft and feel apathetic towards it.

There's no such thing as a coincidence when it comes to propaganda in Hollywood and Western media. Never has been. Never will be.

Oh, and JACK RYAN isn't the only US show that has a propaganda narrative that eeringly points towards the US intent to invade Venezuela. I noticed the same thing on the Netflix show THE DIPLOMAT staffing Kerri Russell.

*starring

One correction to make, the arrow was pointing at Miami, not New York. But, Miami was intentional because it's considered a major port of entry for drug trafficking in the US and has the largest Cuban immigrant population, partly because of how close it is to the island.

Cuba will soon be in extremely dire circumstances due of the illegal seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker that was delivering millions of gallons to the island b/c it's still one of the very few countries that trades with Cuba in defiance of US sanctions. So yeah, no coincidences.

Link to a post I made about the show HOMELAND and Claire Danes causally admitting the entire cast and creative team are trained by the frigging CIA

This is the specific scene from THE DIPLOMAT I referenced that had me literally shaking with rage at how her character was justifying attacking Britian's naval ship unprovoked, and imoeding Scotland's sovereignty b/c 9/1I made her inherently right.

Notice the map on which she so animatedly draws an arrow to New York as a visual cue to the audience to always think of 9/11 as just cause for the US to blow entire countries off the map, put them in economic shackles, and impede US will on formerly colonised. sovereign nations

Had to add the screenshot because they really did telegraph this colonialist bs loud and clear

They don’t call the media the 4th branch of government for nothing 🤷🏾‍♀️

Nope. It's actually their most successful propaganda mechanism because of how Hollywood films have been on a pedestal globally, particularly those from Disney, and win awards like the Oscars.💅🏿

@Wtf_Shea92 Nice so you’ll be boycotting Netflix

@Wtf_Shea92 I canceled my Netflix account 3 years ago and only use my sister's account occasionally to watch specific films for livetweets, and watched THE DIPLOMAT because I was curious of the premise. I regularly talk about all of this because it's part of my work as a Film Culture Critic

@Wtf_Shea92 👏 you’re a genuine person, I love it!

@Wtf_Shea92 Thanks. I appreciate that. I'm trying to learn and share what I do as I go along. When I'm wrong and make mistakes, I have no problem being corrected if it's in good faith.

John is an extreme bootlicker too. His comments on the CIA.... Emily is no saint either since she shamed that waitress.

They're all 😒😒

@flowerdrums TBH even the films with Harrison Ford wearing that ridiculous "concerned" expression were pretty unbearable for the same reasons. "How could anyone attack the virtuous USA?"

@flowerdrums I rewatched a few from this genre like ENEMY OF THE STATE earlier this year to see what I'd pick up now that I'm older, and they weren't even being subtle with the propaganda. It's all plain as day, but what's amazing is how they convinced almost everyone it's just entertainment.

@wrightysback

@wrightysback Well there yuh go!

@wrightysback Guess who had a role on it. François boyfriend

@wrightysback Of course 😄

What's funny about this clip is that he asks which country is the biggest threat, and in making the case for Venezuela his arguments are: - Lots of oil - Lots of gold and other minerals - Pretty damn close That's how they choose to define a "major threat".

Check the Krasinski cameo at the end

All of those action films about cartels from the late 80s - mid 2000s films set in Miami were anti Cuba propaganda 👍🏾👍🏾

Also no mention in the clip of how American foreign policy has put Venezuela into this position, they’re just a failed state, like it just happens 🤷🏽‍♂️

John Krasinski DEFINITELY plays that game. He and Chris Pratt got the same weird, militarized treatment (sometimes I think they originated it, but probably not).

They didn't. Actors like Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Tom Cruise, Ben Affleck, and Will Smith perfected it decades before this new generation turned up, and they're trying the same the newer crop like Glenn Powell but he doesn't have the same convincing charisma they did.

@Darbytwopointoh Ben Affleck took it even further and made an NGO.

@Darbytwopointoh He sure did.

@Josepheronius That’s the smallest bummer, simply because he says the right things.

@CarrieCnh12 Looking at the board shows a very pro-capitalist agenda (co-founder on Council of Foreign Relations, two USAID officials etc.) Howard Buffet on original 2012 board. Then Cindy McCain and Pam Omidyar--2013. Affleck is there to sugar over what's really going on.

@CarrieCnh12 I have no faith in anyone who makes it near the height of Affleck, so this isn’t surprising at all. There’s just so many kinds of bad guy 😮‍💨

I always laugh at these blatant attempts to manufacture consent, but then I remember that thousands base their entire worldview on TV, movies, and video games.

It’s not just TV, in the 2013 military shooter video game, “Call of Duty: Ghosts,” the single player campaign pits the U.S. based player against the “superpower” Venezuela. Before they go after the adults, they go after the kids first.

First season was interesting because it humanized the motives of “the enemy” of that season. Still fairly America hoo rah but similar to the Jack Ryan movies. Got wind of the 2nd season and the level of propaganda was disgusting. Haven’t gone back.

Look at the source material. This is a long-standing feature of Tom Clancy adaptations.

Taylor Sheridan is one of the pillars of American Propaganda from Hollywood

His shows are awful. I've seen some clips from the more recent shows, and the oil barron anti-environmentalism is absurd.

Pro imperialism, anti environmental, anti immigration… the list doesn’t end.

Pure white supremacy in the open frontier as they used to call it.

John Krasinski works closely with the warmongering jerk offs at the CIA and the Pentagon who all their moms should have swallowed or aborted cause they all useless no talent with low IQs. The series Jack Ryan is no different from ridiculous propaganda series Homeland.

John Krasinski said they wrote this with input from the cia

Here’s some articles about government involvement in a project like this

I remember seeing it years ago and was shocked at the blantant propaganda where an “American hero” inserts himself into Venezuelan politics despite’s zero people asking him to only for the show to end with him storming the palace and punching the Maduro stand in because “muh freedums”

I would have thought by now that people know that when you make a movie or a series involving the Company they send an official “liaison”. They even keep an eye on potential best seller books. This is why they’re never portrayed as the ultimate villain that they are.

One of my favorite goofball Twitter threads was when guy whose bio listed himself as writer/supervising producer for the Amazon Jack Ryan series was complaining about a Little Women remake because the story reflected problematic old racist values. You write Amazon Jack Ryan!

Wait until you watch the season with Nigeria…

Funny you mention Nigeria b/c Netflix has a new Nigerian film that references a genocide with dialogue very close to what we've heard Trump and other US media propaganda pundits say recently, and interesting that Netflix was trying a big marketing push for that one in particular

I couldn’t watch him act or direct anything as soon as he started doing propaganda films. Can’t imagine anything worse

Yes, this 120%, its pure wall to wall American state propaganda.

He’s a piece of shit & this is also the reason Mandy Pantinkin’s diatribe meant nothing —he made millions sowing hate propaganda

I can't read or watch thrillers anymore where the CIA are presented as the good guys. They're at best incompetent and at worst evil. I used to think the CIA bugging Charlie Wilson's office was cute. The script writers obv did.

I do enjoy movies & shows but since 70s we’ve always known it’s Zionist propaganda so it’s entertaining but laughable.

What the fuck

I watched this entire series and the whole thing reads as a really self-serious ad for US intervention in sovereign nations

Spot on. That feeling when seeing season 1 in Paris: a room, Arab te-ena-gers, a girl wearing a veil, crafting explosive devices on the soundtrack of my teenagehood. But no relation whatsoever with the rampant islamophobia that will bring the far right to power.

The tip of the iceberg from Tom Clancy's novels.

I watched half of the first season, then I realised that actually I wanted the so-called bad guys to kill Jack Ryan. It was the same sensation I had with that bitch in the Homeland seriea also. In fact, I can rarely make it through a whole season of any pro western show.

Never had interest in this show but even less so now 😒

"Venezuela is a failed state. Just like Yemen, Iraq, Syria." Jeez, what a coincidence that the United States had its own active role in bringing all those countries to the point they're in right now...

i watched it and it was like watching a CIA briefing. kinda like his over movie on benghazi

I was waiting for the reveal that the actual threat was the USA. Why is another country having resources a threat to anyone? The more I think about it, the more insane this seems.

Jack Ryan is propaganda for the colonialist empire & the military industrial complex. The show's a product of the Zionist Ellison's. You just got manipulated, & now you're manipulating others without knowing it. Give you a pinch of truth, then brainwash you with a stack of lies.