Benjamin Radd

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · WW3 Threat Assessment: The War Has Quietly Started & No One’s Trying to Stop It! · 10 Jul 2025 podcast

Now you don't necessarily need the strongest military to do it.

You just need to have the strongest um information army and the willingness to do the dirty things that Western societies don't do anymore, but they used to.

The difference is so I would maintain w we've always been ignorant.

The difference is now you can actually do something with that ignorance and manipulate it at scale that you couldn't before.

So ignorance has always been with us, but before at least people knew where they could go to find what they perceived to be a trusted source.

So now that source is gone.

That messaging is gone.

That skill is gone.

I love that you mentioned diplomacy and diplomats.

So I teach courses on diplomacy, and one of the things I've seen emerge in the last few years is this dichotomy between private diplomacy, which is what we were used to when we studied the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts, and now we have public diplomacy.

Almost all diplomacy, take take the Iran-Israel War, the 12-day war, as as Trump calls it.

How much of that war was conducted via social media?

This is now

So you have this public-facing diplomacy where you have during wartime leaders, their representatives, their proxies conveying messaging both to their enemies, to their allies, and to a supposedly neutral audience, all through social media, right?

So it is not no so much the nuclear age, but the age of the algorithm and how that amplifies diplomacy in a way that never ever existed.

Yeah.

And so this is, I think, this lens.

So that's

To that dilution that then others can take advantage of.

Because at the end of the day, if you want to threaten a country or you want to garner support, how you articulate that via social media, whether you use all caps, whether you use images, memes, all of these things play into how effective that is.

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