On 30 July 2026, I was on Glenn Diesen’s popular podcast. Amazingly, we hardly talked about Iran, despite the fact it looked at the time like President Trump was about to launch a massive attack against Iranian infrastructure, to include its oil facilities. We talked instead about Ukraine and the disconnect between what is actually happening in that war and the stories being told about the course of that conflict in both Ukraine and the West. Glenn and I had a rather lengthy discussion about propaganda toward the end of the podcast, which I think listeners might find interesting.
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It was a great show.
I actually found it very moving when you charged Glenn with writing a book to explain how our elites came to act against their own interests. It felt like the passing on of a torch.
Glen Deesen is not an expert, but he receives money from Putin for propaganda. That's right, he wouldn't talk to you about Iran, he's only being paid for Ukraine, slandering it. And they pay from the budget and with the money of the Russian oligarchs.