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Hasn't a lot of this guy's rhetoric and credentials been debunked over and over as a bit hyperbolic. I mean... the guy made a career out of selling fear?

• orangepurple 4y ago
  What career? He died a few years after this interview.
  • boomboomsubban 4y ago
    The career he had in the years before this interview and then in the remaining years before his untimely death? I'm not informed enough to say whether his entire career was USSR fear mongering, but dying doesn't mean you didn't have a career.
  • j0hnyl 4y ago
    I've done a lot of googling on this guy and either the truth is scrubbed, or I'm landing on soviet propaganda, OR there's not much evidence that he even worked for the KGB. The guy was a journalist and played up this narrative in order to get the attention of the public eye. I'm not saying that everything he said was bullshit. Do nation states at odds actively try to stabilize each other? Of course. But seems to me like he was more of a creative story teller than anything else.
    • wewxjfq 4y ago
      He studied foreign languages in the Soviet Union and worked abroad at the Soviet embassy - it's safe to say that he was a spy and not a journalist.
    • ikekkdcjkfke 4y ago
      Uh yeah, just boost topics on tik tok that favours your long term goals, if you control tik tok
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