Balaji Srinivasan

David Hallersham helped create the Vietnam War.

And as Ashley Rithberg has documented, the great lady winked.

Yeah, there are lots of journalists where if you actually go and look, actually, in fact, let me just...

give you that digression, put this on screen.

Here's four references that will change your worldview if you aren't aware of this, right?

But basically, John Reed, Walter Durante, Edgar Snow, Herbert Matthews, it's very hard to find a communist dictator that didn't come to power due to some journalists doing PR for them, okay?

Basically doing recruiting for them.

They basically got them distribution, okay?

And...

However, with that said, they were not extremely hostile in the, so you can click all those books if you want, just put them on screen for a second, one by one.

Right, so John Reed is literally buried at the Kremlin wall because he was so important to the October Revolution, right?

And he was an American who went there and wrote this book, 10 Days That Shook the World, that whitewashed the entire communist revolution.

Go back one, click the next one.

Like Walter Duranty, he won a Pulitzer Prize, Stalin's apologist for covering up the mass murder of millions of Ukrainians.

And, you know, by the way, after the whole war in Ukraine, New York Times wrote all these articles on Ukraine.

You know what they never mentioned?

Walter Duranty, which is their own role.

The New York Times is a big part of the reason that Ukraine was ever subjugated by Soviet Russia in the first place.

And suddenly they reinvented themselves as a champion of Ukraine after they were the ones who like, you know, basically won a Pulitzer and made money.

They made money from having, starving out the Ukrainians and they made money from the Ukrainian war.