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Watched a YT video about the kidnapping of Maduro, then scrolled through the recommended list. All these dudes with their face in the thumbnail basically going, "please bro trust me bro," on all these geopolitical topics... China vs Taiwan, Russia vs Ukraine, Iran, etc.. They're so desperate for you to believe them. This one CIA guy acting as an influencer assures us Russia "is finished" - wants me to believe it was ever about fully occupying Ukraine. No, never was - before the war, Russia had no military ; now it does. That's what that's about. Same dude wants me to believe China literally can't invade Taiwan for all these reasons that are wrong. Every single thing he said was wrong. But this shit must work, else why do it? Narrative control. They need you believing falsehoods. They need your confidence : its a literal con game.

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I suspect many nation-states do the fake influencer thing, especially the state of Israel, which was recently caught throwing $7000 each in cash to innumerable existing influencers if they would lie for them. I also strongly suspect these agencies use their almost unlimited budgets to seed hundreds of nutty and mutually contradictory conspiracy theories into our spaces to sow confusion, infighting, and to drive away the sane, rational, competent people we must attract.