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Nov 12·edited Nov 12

About 6 minutes in, you have the perfect description of the collective insanism of the West.

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Diesen's work has been consistently excellent for years. Good to see him at Valdai.

What has been missed about the Ukraine war is the enormous US/UK backed intelligence operation conducted against people like Diesen by a UK based Ukrainian OSINT operation called Molfar.

Diesen is on their list of "foreign propagandists" here. https://molfar.com/en/foreign-propagandists

I wrote about this operation, which boasts of placing stories in the UK and US press to defame, doxx and slander critics of the Ukraine war such as Max Blumenthal and the UK academic Tim Hayward.

This UK/US taxpayer funded operation has worked to prevent Western audiences from learning the truth about this terrible war, and has sought to discredit and intimidate journalists and politicians across Europe to silence them. I became aware of them when they wrote to me to assist in a smear campaign against a leading Polish politician.

You can read about Molfar's hit list of Western dissidents on my own stack, using the link below this post. If you can't use Substack's freebie to view the post, email me and I will send you a free link.

frankwrighter@pm.me

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Somewhere far far away on a distant planet geopolitical machinations are implemented through totally peaceful means that actually enhance the wellbeing of that planet’s ecosystems.

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I follow both you and Petr Drulák (I live in the Czech Republic), so I was really glad to see this interview! (I watched it a few days ago when it first came out on Svatopluk's YouTube channel.) Thank you for taking the time to speak to a (primarily) Czech audience.

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I just read the danish news about Kaja Kallas examination as commissionaire for the role of foreign affairs in the EU.

It's crazy what she is being quoted for, e.g. "Peace only leads to more war" and the Minsk accords "didn't bring peace, they brought more war". Hence according to her, it is necessary that Russia lose the war.

In my view, she is anything but a diplomat and very unfit for the job.

The link (in danish) is here:

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/eu/nu-skal-eu-kommissaerkandidaterne-til-eksamen?focusId=8608670

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Glenn,

I’ve agreed with everything you’ve had to say but I would disagree with the fact that the world will be better off with multipolarity.

It has been obvious to me for a long, long time that the US should have taken the advice of the peace activists starting in the 1950s, George Kennan in the 1970s and John Mearsheimer in the 1980s.

If the US had led by example and largely minded its own business the world would be a much better place.

I would argue that the power struggle which will take place due to the transition from unipolarity to multipolarity will cause big problems.

The answer to these problems is to follow the dictates in my “Course”. It’s not too late to try to right the ship and steer it in the best direction possible but time is running out.

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