Professor Glenn Eric Andre Diesen¹ :
Ideology makes the narrative immune to reality:
– The UK will still lecture the world about free speech
– The US will still lecture the world about human rights
– The EU will still lecture the world about peace
– NATO will still insist on being a defensive alliance
– Israel & Ukraine will still be portrayed as liberal democracies
– The conflicts of the world will still be sold to the public as a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism
Impossible?
Observe how quickly the assassination attempt of Trump and removal of Biden went into the memory hole, and how quickly Harris as a national embarrassment for three years could be re-launched as the savior of America and the world.
The genocide will be old news about terrorism, the Nord Stream attack will be dismissed as some rogue elements with a sailboat, and the sabotage of
Ukraine-Russia peace agreements will be dismissed as conspiracy theories and propaganda.
Political interference will still be “democracy promotion”, foreign intelligence operations will still be “human rights organisations supporting civil society”, coups will still be “democratic revolutions”, invasions will still be “humanitarian interventions” etc.
Reality is overrated.
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¹ Glenn Eric Andre Diesen (born 1979) is a Norwegian academic and political scientist. He is a professor at the School of Business of the University of South-Eastern Norway. He is a regular commentator on the Russian state-controlled international news television network RT.
Diesen has faced criticism for allegedly promoting Russian propaganda.
Diesen has been a regular commentator on Russia Today (RT) and has faced criticism for allegedly promoting Russian propaganda.
He also writes for Steigan
The Swedish journalist Patrik Oksanen considers Diesen to be “part of the Russian propaganda machinery.”
Aage Borchgrevink of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee said that Diesen has “an important role in RT as the Western expert, which gives legitimacy to what clearly appears to be the Kremlin’s version […] his writings are unreliable, the factual basis is doubtful, and characterized by the content and form of Russian propaganda, as expressed in RT and Sputnik.”
Diesen has received the support of the rector of the University of South-Eastern Norway Petter Aasen, who defended the academic’s right to free expression. Diesen is opposed to Russia’s military action against Ukraine.
In 2020, Diesen wrote an op-ed in Aftenposten with Arne Treholt, that stated that Russia has “legitimate interests and security needs” and said that Russia was unfairly demonized as a security threat.
