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[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

“Here’s this rich American who’s bandied about loosely the idea of running for political office,” says Steven Hall, a former head of Russia operations for the CIA. “What that triggers on the side of the KGB is: ‘We’re going to collect on him. We’re not going to do high-level physical surveillance, but we’re going to collect on him, see where he stays, wire him, do some open source research. You never know where he’ll wind up.”

Russian spies are taught how to play the long game in the cultivation of assets, agents, or mere informants, whether at home or abroad. A less-than-chance encounter with a lowly but ambitious American defense contractor on a business trip to Brussels may yield top-secret US nuclear secrets decades later. The recruitment of a US military attaché stationed at the embassy in Tokyo could begin with answering his overworked secretary’s singles ad. Some investments will fizzle out (the defense contractor gets spooked and goes to the FBI; the attaché’s secretary gets reassigned), but others will pay off handsomely.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

This phenomenon is, in fact, an aspect of the entrancing power of the severe narcissist. Even while cognitively aware that he is spinning a false tale – i.e., lying – emotionally, in the moment, the story being told is both experienced as reality and conveyed with a tone of conviction and “sincerity” (albeit often bombastically so) such that the listener is forced into the position of taking the significant risk of questioning the sanity a powerful, apparently self-assured person; or adopting the safer, more passive role of relinquishing their own cognitively analytic processes and deferring to the intoxicating, intense and grandiose thought processes of the narcissistic. Thus, the interpersonal interaction commonly referred to as “gaslighting” in fact represents the projection onto the public of the powerful, illogical, and timeless fantastical world of lies in which narcissist (emotionally) lives.

 

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Another example of the fine never Trumpers in action.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

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War!!! Working on the infallible assumption that Trump projects himself onto others, this is a particularly disturbing tweet.

 

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[Michael Scally MD]