Mike Benz

The purpose for these things and the scope of it and be able to look at just how bad it is with clear eyes and not necessarily, I mean, have your rage boiling your anger moment. And when that clears, a fundamental... The reorganization of the way we carry out soft power is going to have to replace what we used to do if we don't do these dirty deeds anymore.

Right. The only problem with that is... Trump represented something very different than that vision that was expressed by the Bush-Biden blob uniparty that had been there. And in countries that are not stable, elections completely change everything. When

Right. The only problem with that is... Trump represented something very different than that vision that was expressed by the Bush-Biden blob uniparty that had been there. And in countries that are not stable, elections completely change everything. When

Right. The only problem with that is... Trump represented something very different than that vision that was expressed by the Bush-Biden blob uniparty that had been there. And in countries that are not stable, elections completely change everything. When

And this maybe gets to whether or not, you know, the problem is not necessarily just the institutions, but rather the the sort of legacy of momentum of all these previous political forces, because you could see a situation where then, OK, every time a MAGA type. Populist candidate wins an election.

And this maybe gets to whether or not, you know, the problem is not necessarily just the institutions, but rather the the sort of legacy of momentum of all these previous political forces, because you could see a situation where then, OK, every time a MAGA type. Populist candidate wins an election.

And this maybe gets to whether or not, you know, the problem is not necessarily just the institutions, but rather the the sort of legacy of momentum of all these previous political forces, because you could see a situation where then, OK, every time a MAGA type. Populist candidate wins an election.

All of our foreign policy institutions switch radically in one direction, calling that American interests. And then a sort of internationalist blob, a globalist person wins an election. Then all the institutions switch all that. And so, you know, you can't you can't even build permanent structures in foreign countries or permanent networks because everything's so schizophrenic.

All of our foreign policy institutions switch radically in one direction, calling that American interests. And then a sort of internationalist blob, a globalist person wins an election. Then all the institutions switch all that. And so, you know, you can't you can't even build permanent structures in foreign countries or permanent networks because everything's so schizophrenic.

All of our foreign policy institutions switch radically in one direction, calling that American interests. And then a sort of internationalist blob, a globalist person wins an election. Then all the institutions switch all that. And so, you know, you can't you can't even build permanent structures in foreign countries or permanent networks because everything's so schizophrenic.

Right. Politics stops at the war's edge, right? That's exactly right.

Right. Politics stops at the war's edge, right? That's exactly right.

Right. Politics stops at the war's edge, right? That's exactly right.

Well, there's a distinction I think that's useful to draw here between public agencies paying for premium services of U.S. news websites that are foreign-facing. So, for example, the State Department pays for premium subscriptions to various news sites in order to be able to have access to all of the...

Well, there's a distinction I think that's useful to draw here between public agencies paying for premium services of U.S. news websites that are foreign-facing. So, for example, the State Department pays for premium subscriptions to various news sites in order to be able to have access to all of the...

Well, there's a distinction I think that's useful to draw here between public agencies paying for premium services of U.S. news websites that are foreign-facing. So, for example, the State Department pays for premium subscriptions to various news sites in order to be able to have access to all of the...

New York Times or Politico, you know, to be able to get behind the paywall for their employees so that while they're doing their job of soft powerfulness abroad, they have the maximum amount of knowledge at their fingertips. It's the same thing with... But that's all fake.

New York Times or Politico, you know, to be able to get behind the paywall for their employees so that while they're doing their job of soft powerfulness abroad, they have the maximum amount of knowledge at their fingertips. It's the same thing with... But that's all fake.

New York Times or Politico, you know, to be able to get behind the paywall for their employees so that while they're doing their job of soft powerfulness abroad, they have the maximum amount of knowledge at their fingertips. It's the same thing with... But that's all fake.

Well, that's right. But there's two forms of that. And I'm just also trying to educate people as they... go through this discovery process about the extent of it, because you're going to see it's everyone. But there are two forms of it. One is