period of this conflict, the usa dropped on vietnam more than $6000000.00 tons of bombs, which is 2 and a half times as much as on germany during the 2nd world war. in 1973, the american army under the pressure of the rebels, withdrew from vietnam. and only 2 years later did the puppet regime in saigon fall . however, the vietnamese paid a high price for their freedom. more than 1000000 vietnamese people became the victims of american aggressors. ah, hello, i'm manila chan. you are tuned into modus operandi. now their faces are inescapable plastered across all platforms. their names uttered more frequently than common necessities, like bread or water. volota mere zalinski read a ton berg, alexey nev only one guido and others names and faces who rocketed to international

fame for a cause. this week we'll discuss how seemingly random people are heralded as global idols for a specific cause. is this chance or calculated creation. alright, let's get into the m o. ah. in 2019, he was elected president of an eastern european country. most people could not find on a map, a comedic actor turned politician volunteer. zalinski went from only regional fame to household name across the globe in the span of just over 2 years or the year before in 2018 alone schoolgirl in sweden, protesting climate change in solitude. greater turn birds than just 15 years at the

time, was suddenly splashed across magazines around the world. invited to meet with heads of state and speak at huge events like un meetings. and there are others like alexi, now volley championed as the main opposition, the, the leading role on the world stage to discuss these so called global idols. and their role in the political theater. we are being joined by g met talk. he is a former swiss and p journalist and author, his newest book titled lucy occident. originally and french. translated to english is russia, west. d. thank you so much for joining the program. thank you for inviting me for this interview. are very, very broad, very happy to, to be reduced. ok, volota mears, a landscape has never waited into politics before his ascension to president of

ukraine. how did an actor with only regional fame become president of a country and a household name in the span of like 2 years? this, i think a zelinski is case is not unique in greece to you, but it is because you have other actors you're becoming president for and says for now we got, he was one you would act or before becoming president. and you have also foreign sassy knew calistoga, committee, jim, or you, maurice like bit pick re low or social critique. do political party, very successful in italy or other guys like your bill news, couldn't italy or even done a chance to was it to be stop before becoming president. so zelinski scarce. he's not unique. pretty specific. yes. in the sense it is a unique actor who is directly who came directly from good

comedy to the politics in very short time. in a few months we can see. and that's unique because we're not we got, you was governor of california. you was involved in politics before he became a president of the united states. so since his case is or so, so, so a very specific how can we explain in my view? and it's a huge advantage when you are in, you want to be elected to become a president to use your pay, your personal thing. so if you are, your name is known from the public, which was the case of the landscaping quinn, was very famous as a comedian, as a you, maurice, them at the t v. event in russia. but also your claim. so it's

a big advantage. if your name is already known, and it was also a question, not a fake president, you know, but it was playing is role before becoming due to president of the country. so maybe it has some influence about elections. but what also is important in the case of, of the lensky. is that your so? yes, a special look, you know, and you made a campaign. and yet you made a campaign electoral campaign. 192019 saying, oh, i am new on the scene. i am not corrupted as on our past president, and i will bring you the piece so the made promises to quinn and our

citizens saying i will bring peace. i will set the conflict under crises redraw, shut the door, so made promises with which he betrayed as soon as he was elected. but before the election use this, let's say she's new with a past or non politician as an advantage to be elect elected. and after you betrayed but it after the election, that's why you was in my you successful and sure. i know how to talk argument. we can see you had the support of the main early docs of good country. so he had plenty of money to support team during his electoral

campaign, which is very important in politics without money. now in the democracy, we can, you cannot be elected. now the one is just one example of someone who seems kind of plucked from that scary need to become the face of a cause or a symbol of sorts. when i turn birds, the young swedish climb activist is another. can you think of others who sort of fit this description and sudden global idol? and why are these people used as a singular symbol? yes, for me. zelinski didn't came from nothing to do everything. you know, as i tried to explain, because it was petty now in the russian speaking countries such as ukraine bills and russia before use his election as a, as

a president. but the case of for grant arkenberg is a little bit different because she was not now and, and she suddenly appeared on the scene in the not less than one year. we can explain that because she's also, she was also in the posture of a big deal. if you look at look, press is that precisely right? that one, but she, she looks a little bit like you remember me b t b r a t v movie for the movie a made by stephen. speak about this very friendly, sympathetic, n e t. and if you look at the face of dark space,

she has something in common with short cuts, the sympathy of the people because of her special face. and i think to it as like, as she is slightly, has been said to speak, but it gives to her some attraction to the people because like she's attracting jet and something just is capacity. and zalinski exactly has he's a good actor. he knows perfectly how to use all the tricks order all. ready yesterday, capacities of to show he's was perfectly done for the job because if you don't need a lot of politicians to learn how to use t, v to use the show show at the price, you know,

artifacts and so on. because you already master everything, you know for the shoe. so you could directly play the role of his existence, which was a big advantage at the beginning of this war in order to appear on the under well seen as, as a symbol. you and i live in countries that are considered the west. does the use of such symbols, such idols had the same impact across the globe, say, i don't know across the global south, or is this a media invention for western consumption? for me, this kind of media publication is mainly for the western public. because do what is the goal of this publication?

is to get a consensus to get the consent of the people to do arms expenses, to the publication of armaments, to the military budget. as you have seen, that the u. s. military budget has been increased in december to 858, billions of go out. so for 100 billions, how can to previous one? so as a need to convince your public to accept such a expenses for weaponry or for getting money and a one you need to fabricate these kind of, i goes these kind of constant but mainly in the west, not, not in the global. so maybe if it is, if it is known in the global,

so that's the 2nd advantage, but it's a site advantage, not the main, the main goal. and in the global south, i think the public opinion does on a shell you, if you look the bus stop now, it's not accepted to take the same sanctions against russia. that's not accepted to come see girls. lensky has the unique superstar and the unique global. i don't know if the good, you know, on the planet why, because in the south there are not sensitive to the scandal book. we see both of these kind of double stand up. why? because they're accustomed, they used to get the bombs on the heads where i dropped the up with his bones,

dropped the men. there were a broken afghanistan in iraq then sir. yeah. lead. yeah. you know, and to stupid people freak out of his muslim country, they can not show up. he's kind of obligation because that know they had experience how the west is using these kind of media publication to justify it until then chance is bumping. it's killings in the global south, mainly which is the main, the victim of this kind of by the population. so i think the, thanks to god, thanks to, to wait on this good populations of the global. so more conscious of these propaganda then, the we are us,

we in the rest of the world than we are aware of off game at on is gonna stay with us coming up next. the human need to worship. are these political idols comparable to deities in religion? or might some call their worship coltish? we'll discuss it when we return, said type them out. we'll be right back. ah ah, ah, need to come to the russian state total narrative. i've stayed as i'm phone and ignore some scheme with within the 55 with speaking with rural van in the

european union. the kremlin ca, yep, machine. restate on russia for date and split our t spoke neck. even our video agency, roughly all band on youtube. with me as well. never be a victory for russia. we solutions you what you're still waiting my to a new modem, but you look at a meal. crane war is a proxy war. this is a war between russia and the united states. mezzo mom on made. it comes to not should kick in carbon dioxide. america forces are,

and you're not in your engage in conflict with russian forces. american forces are here and defend nato allies. what happens that nato escalates even more than discussion. military operations become a war when you put them up. so that was the show and that'll that notion is my store. i see it that i see your to us. thank you costliest, you got what i mean with so i use 3 issue week and you still with me a sewage nurse newkirk. the girl who's ah, walking back to the m o. i'm manila chan, former swiss m, p journalist and author game anton has decided to stay with us to talk some more. so get when choosing or carefully curating people to be idols like

zalinski, tune, burden of volley, and others in this day and age of social media where the internet never forgets how these idols managed to escape the darker parts of their past. that's very easy for them. it's, it's, it's not a problem for them, because as they have the support of the, all the western mass media from cnn to learn more in france from the phone put on your mind. it's a 2 in germany to washington course. all the way to west are weighed, your media review was academic circles. i mean corporate, all the corporate, major of the weights of the west is mobilized to support them. so it's very easy to put aside the bad elements of biography and to

keep it under under cover, you know, and to exile, to try to, to, to, to make the focus only on the positive elements of the biography. look, for instance, lensky how the western place, the corporate media insisting about his big team award is. ready it is commitment for the good against the bad russian and so on and forgetting completely and hold his scout loose investment is a real estate properties in florida in london. you can reach where revealed with it by the palm to wrap it, but you have no mention of pandora papers and zalinski frauds and how is

using money laundering money and putting is money in florida. you have never that kind of mentioned because it's, it has been put aside and by the you are connected, the drawing of course, the positive message message about them. forgetting all the bad sides. the darker sides of this kind of what people. ready the case of gentlemen ski, it's obvious for people who are knowing his biography. but if you are just a regular he called reading from time to time, a newspaper or listening to radio. you cannot know anything about his dark past because it says been completely concealed completely. he been and it's easy to do

when you had called to court boy. now it would be, you know, one thing if these people were merely cultural idols like a pop star, take madonna or the beatles. but these people have an impact on foreign policy. don't. i mean, how consequential are such idols on the world stage? yeah, we live in a world of stories ation of styles. you know, the movie styles are celebrated all the time. in good newspaper, i do tv and so on. so there is, there is a big need for, for styles. and so there is a temptation to use the spouse to, to use that to defend the course. and you can, of course, it can be good cause your money can causes go no problem with that. but also for

more or less less let's see, log through a case. and so that's, that's the system off of mass media since one century ago. it's not yet beginning of the 20th century with jumped up last mid. yeah. did this kind of star is ation us. so the stuff can be used. ready or the sense you have movie star or bob stars who so of course, like boy know, read a ways to save the in jams of the far west. you have, i'm just, i'm really naturally for your money tell you cause use for both the for instance, during the 19 ninety's they can have that can be, they can, they can be used for totally

a wellness of what they're doing thing. but also without being conscious of all we ask them to play and we can also, i wonder, we can also raise the question. if the staff at the end, at the end of the day, if they are promoting a good course or if they are not using the good cause for promoting themselves to, to wait their biography. and to give, you know, a name edge of to good. good, good to the public, you know, and if you it so, so question because they tend to use for good cause, but a good course can also be used to promote the so called spell in several of your articles. you have argued that the media is complicit. in wars and conflict around

the world, either by paying them too much attention, such as ukraine or none at all, like yemen and the worst part. the media now picking aside noam chomsky and edward as hermine wrote the book, manufacturing consent back in the 19 eighties and by chance get home his definition of manufactured consent. are these global idols manufactured and what sort of consent are they trying to serve? yes, but i would the answer to this question because you know, for me, the manufacturer of consent needs or needs to be constant. you cannot see as you cannot in corrupt the fabrication of the concept, the manufacturing of so you need to do it every day. every

week, every month, every year. because if you interrupt it, teachers use it. you know, the attention of the public is collapsing is my mission. so you have to renew constantly your narrative. and that's why you need the old style are coming from the movie, pop music or any kind, you know, all styles. why not? but you need also to create new stuff. for instance, as is now mr. the landscape is a new star since peace europe. because before february 20 to 20022, you was only a new quinn and president. not, not better,

not worse than your door. exactly corrupted or the pass code. the ukrainian president. exactly undemocratic because the, the cancer or the last major rep or post to him before, not only after february, but before you also present jane. it was also before, so you want to exactly like a president. so it became a star because we did west, especially like the states that need new stars in order to promote the weakening of russia to promote the war against russia to promote the so called grain against the bad russians. and so the next key will last as long as this war will be supported by,

by the west. because yes, as, as explained in manufacturing consent needs all the time to be to be supported to, to consume scrunched it's consuming or so starts or start you styles and probably restarts events key one did. ready become a bus stop because it would be alike or a consumer products or consumption in our society. it would be consumed to game at all author of ruthie occident. thank you so much for joining us on this very controversial topic. ok, thank you to you for, for following ursa. i'm happy to see you again soon back. ah, now there is

a saying about social media like instagram or tick tock. never believe what you see, because as we know, these images are carefully and meticulously crafted. filtered to present whatever image the poster wishes to convey, the same rule can be applied to these so called global idols. that's gonna do it for this weeks episode. modus operandi, the show that dig deep into foreign policy. i'm your host. mila chan. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next week to figure out the emma. ah ah

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