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We're joined today by writer, Civil Nuclear Engineer podcast, host and energy analyst Hugo Brueger.

Welcome back to the podcast, Hugo.

Thanks, holy.

Thanks for having me.

I think this is your third appearance, possibly, and you do a lot of great work.

And you're originally from South Africa, and so we're going to be focusing on that today,

and you've been writing a few pieces, you know, South Africa's involvement with the Israel-Gaza

affair and the ICJ.

And then you wrote a fantastic piece for Pierce Robinson's propaganda in focus on, as a result

of that, the Western Empire, you say that it's your suspicion that Washington,

local actors or the Israeli lobby will most likely try and use propaganda to intervene in

the next election in South Africa with the purpose of punishing the ANC for, quote, bad behavior.

So what's going on here?

Yeah. So, I mean, this isn't shocking to anyone in

your audience, but if you go against the Washington Mafia, they try and intervene. They try and

instigate who they does, use propaganda, use media attacks against the president, Ramaphosa at the

moment. Now, I myself, am not a big fan of the

ANC government. I think they got far too much good press outside of South Africa. So in a way,

you know, I should actually be welcoming it, but I know what's going to happen, which is why I don't

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