What was John F. Kennedy referring to when he said “a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy”?

The President and the Press: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961

Excerpt

For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    28·
    7 hours ago

    With out any diligence this makes more sense and likely why they assassinated him.

    Remember folks tupac was in killed in las vagas and killer was never found.

    Brian Thompson the United Health Parasite was denied a claim to life in NYC and some how they found some rich Chad as a fall guy 🤡

    • ehpolitical@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      21·
      7 hours ago

      Any guess as to what or who he was referring to specifically? Like, who is “they”?

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        56·
        6 hours ago

        Again talking out of my ass but the oligarchs who were in charge at during that time along with the spooks who colluded to kill him.

        Speeches like these got them big mad.

        Its like the business plot, we know rich people did a thing but the government covered it up so we won’t know what actually happened.

        That the beauty of being the owner of the country. The state works for you even if you kill the president

        • ehpolitical@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          21·
          6 hours ago

          Assuming he was telling the truth and he was right, it doesn’t sound like something that would have disappeared from the world any time soon. Which then makes me wonder if what he was referring to has anything to do with what’s happening today, cause there does seem to be a striking resemblance if we compare it to his description…?