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#301 — The Politics of Unreality: Ukraine and Nuclear Risk
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Putin's Propaganda Is a Lie in a World Where There Was Still Truth
Putin finds himself in a place where he can't meaningfully promise, rough and a better future. Putin propaganda does is that it says, look, nothing's really any good. We admit it, but Britain is just as bad and America's just as bad. And then they just hit on the things which are bad about us and they put them right in the center of our countries. So that is a kind of programmatic nihilism. It's a way to stay in power when you can no longer actually operate a state in the way that it's normally thought of as being beneficial to people.
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