Are There Similarities Between Putin and Putin?

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"I have a hard time believing that almost anybody's buying what he's selling," Samira Wiley says of Russian President Vladimir Putin. "The disinformation and misinformation, it's reached a really crazy level where pretty much all levels of all aspects of our media are are doing it." The only real equivalent over here in the West, I could see is 'what Trump would do often because Trump wasn't really as calculated,' she adds. "[Putin] definitely just has this kind of weird algorithm for kind of gas lighting and shifting reality," Lewis argues.

Today Josh speaks with Sam McNerney on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Some of the topics we dive into are:

The geopolitical reactions and support of Ukraine.
Putin’s mental health and motivations behind the invasion.
Russia's political and economic future.
The prospects of WW3.
How Russia and Ukraine are both using propaganda as part of information warfare.
The differences between Russian and American oligarchs.
And much more.

Sam McNerney is an applied behavioral scientist, market researcher, and brand strategist based in Brooklyn, New York. He has worked with brands such as Walmart, Procter & Gamble, and CitiBank.

As a writer, he has interviewed business and academic leaders including Arianna Huffington, Andrew Yang, Jonathan Haidt, and Charles Murray – and his essays have been featured in publications like The Washington Post, Psychology Today, and Scientific American.

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