“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
NOTE: If you do not have time to read this Substack post, please at least watch Ivan Raiklin’s detailed presentation J6 and the Deep State. It has vital background on what has been and is going on in The American Republic.
Ivan Raiklin is worth following on his website, his substack, on Tucker, on Rumble, Twitter, GETTR, and other social media platforms. He is literally changing history…for the better.
It is rare to meet an individual who is changing history, but he is.
While I was in graduate school at the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies, I had a house mate who ended up being a big shot in the Rand Corporation, State Department, Atlantic Council and all the hard Left think tanks who have brought about the horrible Ukraine war. Like so many with that pedigree, his father fought on the Eastern Front in World War II and passed his hatred of the Russians down to him.
He was instrumental in expanding NATO to Russia’s door step. I even edited his book on that topic. Like so many of his elite coterie, he fancied himself a “Democrat” but believed in communist views. For example, he believed that “forces” and not individuals changed history. We used to argue for hours about this. I took the American view…that individuals change history.
He self describes as a “private citizen defending the Constitution” and “America’s Lawffensive Coordinator Deep State Marauding to remedy the Constitutional Crisis we are currently in by removing the CCP captured institutions.”
He is that…and more.
His full biography can be found here. Here is an excerpt from that biography.
Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Ivan E. Raiklin, former Green Beret and Constitutional Attorney Served 25 years in the DOD, Intel and Special Operations Communities and DTRA as an enlisted, officer, civilian, contractor on active duty, reserves and national guard across 5 states: IA, NY, MA, MS, TX and 5 continents in five languages (Russian, Spanish, Arabic, French, English-naturally). Ivan served as a Green Beret Commander countering ISIS in the Middle East, Taliban in Afghanistan, MS-13 in Central America, countering Russian aggression as a military diplomat in the Republic of Georgia.
Most recently he was an instructor at the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center teaching junior thru senior level professionals of the US Intelligence community and international partners about intelligence analysis, national security and multinational operations.
After observing the illegally certified 2020 election, he began using his skills and expertise to investigate this constitutional violation and all Federal Government and State Actors involved. Researching their wanton disregard for the constitution over the course of the last 6 years including their illegal politically motivated spying of a President, Retired Army General Michael T. Flynn and former Naval Officer Carter Page.
Because of several retweets by a sitting President, and the Federal Government's blind hatred of that President--at the expense of the US Constitution--Ivan has faced at least ten investigations by the DHS, DOD, FBI, DIA, US Army, Office of the Secretary of Defense, US Army Reserves, at least two Contract companies and the J6 coverup committee for his legal analysis of remedying the illegally certified 2020 election in his off duty time in his personal capacity, while fearlessly exercising his First Amendment right. His most well known analysis was the #PenceCard analysis which exposed Mike Pence's Unconstitutional behavior on December 23. And also his investigation of the January 6 Fedsurrection and the Federal Government's role in its creation.
Ivan has been massively censored for that legal analysis by CCP-inspired/ leveraged/(likely)captured Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Lincoln-In. Also, he has been ruthlessly defamed by Reuters (official Fact checker of Tweeter whose CEO serves on the Pfizer board), NY Times, Washington Post, Raw Story, Huffington Post for exercising his 1A while off duty in his personal capacity. Amidst all this commotion, Ivan was nonetheless given the highest performance evaluation along with a substantive raise in his role as a National Security expert for his superlative performance and selected for battalion command in the US Army Reserve.
However, due to the abject institutionally mandated Constitutional violations directed from the Chinese Communist Party's Ambassador to the US, Biden, and his illegitimate regime at the very top of the DOD, Ivan declined and retired from the military, not wanting to have anything to do with the forced CCP-inspired constitutional violations of his fellow brothers and sisters and arms, instead opting to exit to defend their rights in a more substantive manner from the outside. Furthermore, when the Reuters article came out, Bill Priestap former FBI Chief of Counter-Intelligence-Division (CID) probably deployed his nephew to investigate Ivan, and as a result he has been politically persecuted in the same fashion as President Trump and General Flynn with the loss of over $2 million in contracts.
His humor is infectious. He gets this broad smile and speaks of the “Fedsurrection” pulled off by the “FBlie." He knows Satan has no sense of humor, and he exploits this weakness of The Father of Lies and his minions. Get a taste of his humor when he speaks of how he trolls the serious Fedsurrection actors here.
When I asked him recently why he does not have a security detail around him 24/7 (as, like DT, the only way they will stop his success is by assassinating him), he laughed loudly and said, “I don’t fear them. They fear me. I am my security detail. Did you ever see the video when they used the TSA to try to intimidate me at airport security? When I got done, that TSA agent was shaking like a leaf.”
He calls it like it is. “Image a nation that has organized it’s entire people to go to war with us. But they call China a “strategic competitor.” If some nation takes fentanyl and sends it to the Mexican Cartels to kill over 100,000 Americans each year. If some nation sends a bioweapon that kills tens of millions worldwide and at least a million Americans. Is that a “strategic competitor?” No. That’s called we’re going to the execute mode. The CCP needs to be obliterated.”
If you want to see what motivates Ivan, see this vid about the Arizona election steel and why he and his family emigrated to the United States.
His analysis about the hidden men and women operating in the shadows to hand this country to the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) is breath taking. For example, here are just a few links to topics he has covered about the CCP take over of the United States.
The Choice: Speaker Trump or America’s Demise
Mike Pence…GUILTY OF J6 TREASON?!
Was January 6, 2021 a Uniparty Coup?
FEDSURRECTION?! Who in the Government Must be Investigated to get to the Truth of January 6?!
Are Members of DOJ-FBI & DHS-TSA Domestic Terrorists?
January 6: Fastest Path to Truth & Justice
Ivan has been such a dogged analyst, researcher, and writer that I cannot list all his work here, but go to his substack and you can find it all there.
I end by thanking Ivan for turning me on to the Substack platform. Given how corrupt and evil most social platforms became, I had given up and cancelled with all of them except Rumble, which still follows 1st Amendment guidance.
When I began to read Ivan’s truth telling on Substack three years ago, it motivated me to create my American Tactical Civil Defense Substack to help American families and small business survive the current Apocalypse.
Thanks for that Ivan.
And thanks for being a brother-in-intellectual-arms carrying on the American Dream so my children and grandchildren have a future.
It is a pleasure to serve in the American future with you.
NOTE: The photos of Ivan and I were taken at this Kevin McCarthy was Removed: Now What meeting. I met him years ago at the anti-CPAC meeting. I was impressed by his Special Forces experience and his business card that showed 78 software apps, mostly cyber, that he knew in addition to 7 languages. When he spoke of the other CPAC meeting, I asked him how he knew those things as he was at the anti-CPAC meeting with Mike Cernovich and I. In classic Ivan fashion, he replied, “Because I attend both meetings!” and laughed his infectious laugh and showed his huge smile. Smart guy. He casts a wide intellectual net.
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (1989)