Anne Applebaum
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2,775 appearances
25 recordings
9 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Sep
Anne Applebaum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so that's always the line that he returns to when he's looking for a kind of baseline explanation for what it is that he wanted.
I mean, it was the same in Venezuela.
It's the same in almost everywhere.
The fire hose of falsehoods.
Actually, I think that might have been a Steve Bannon phrase, but it was really a description of what the Russians do.
They put out not just one lie, but millions of lies, you know, or not just one explanation, but one after another after the next.
And there's so many and there's so much of it all the time that people eventually just tune out and they say nothing.
I don't know what's true.
I don't know what's not true.
I don't believe anything.
I'm just going to stay home.
I'm not going to engage in this issue.
I'm not going to get angry about it.
I just don't want to know anything at all.
And it's an actual propaganda technique.
You know, you just flood people with massive contradictory stories.
And sooner or later, they won't pay any attention to anything at all.
And whether Trump is doing that on purpose in Iran or whether it's
Just the result of how his brain works, it's hard for me to say.
But it's certainly having that effect.
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