Soft power of freemasonry

The authors analyze two directions of the so-called soft power phenomena in the context of simultaneous research of freemasonry as an influential political actor, which is acting in its own covert political agenda. The authors believe that the article will shed the light on how masonry played a crucial role in formation of massive international networks of indirect influence on regional and global politics, including the creation of controlled protest movements, which allows us to recognize the existence of a special political institution - so called deep state. This allows the authors to speculate about existence of so-called deep state phenomenon. Ever since the 19th century the basis for European global supremacy has been slowly depleted and replaced by ideas of American Manifest Destiny, becoming, perhaps, one of the biggest threats to global stability and prosperity.