November 18, 2025 – The Unlawful Order video is brainwashing, using common propaganda techniques

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(Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN))

UNLAWFUL ORDER VIDEO WAS BRAINWASHING. USED COMMON PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES🚨

1: “We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now.” This is a common brainwashing technique called “The Illusory Effect”. Trying to make things feel true because people say they are true.

2: “Americans trust their military, but that trust is at risk.” This is a propaganda technique known as “Push-Pull Manipulation”. The goal is to create emotional confusion by saying “you are respected BUT we are losing that respect for you”.

3: “This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens.” This is a propaganda technique known as “Reframing a Benevolent Authority as a Malevolent Threat”. Trying to get soldiers to question the goodness of their chain of command. This is an authoritarian technique.

4: “Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.” This is a powerful and old technique called “Manufactured Threat”. No details. No specifics. Just “fear and distrust your commanders”. This is an authoritarian technique. One used by Hitler specifically.

5: “You can refuse illegal orders…You MUST refuse illegal orders”. Without specifics, this is called an “Ambiguous Directive”. This induces uncertainty, anxiety, and an unhealthy self-policing because people don’t know what the “wrong” behavior is. It is an authoritarian technique.

6: “No one has to carry out orders that violate our laws or our Constitution…we know this is hard”. This is a classic example of a powerful technique known as “Moral Vagueness Manipulation”. They are telling you that you don’t have to do something wrong, and “they” know it’s hard because there is pressure to do the “wrong” thing. It creates a sense of duty without specifying the action required. This is INTENTIONAL, and meant to create confusion.

7: “It’s a difficult time to be a public servant”. Another Illusory Effect statement.

8: “Your vigilance is critical”. This is an authoritarian technique call “Vague Threat Alerting”. Tell people to be vigilant, do NOT explain what they should watch for clearly, then let their imagination supply the threat. Unidentified threats are always more frightening than specific ones.

9: “Know we have your back”. This is called “Fear Safety Manipulation”. Basically, we are asking you to put your neck out and disobey orders BUT, just do it, we have your back.

10: “Because NOW, more than ever, the American people need you.” This is called a “Call to Duty without Content”. It’s used to stir obligation, without definition of cost.

11: “Don’t give up the ship”. This means we are at war. That we are in danger. That we are counting on YOU to resist. In this message, it creates vague fear, ambiguous commitments, undefined moral burdens, etc.

If an authoritarian regime was prepping their military for a coup, this is the exact type of message they would send the military. This is how you persuade good people, to do immoral things.

Let’s be clear, this video was about priming the US Military to disobey LEGAL orders, not ILLEGAL orders. This is civilian and military intelligence programming 101….we use this on OTHER countries militaries. Now they are turning it inward.