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The Russell Brunson Show

The Propaganda Playbook: Holy War (How the Pentagon Is Selling a Crusade to American Troops) - #Marketing - Ep. 123

The Russell Brunson Show

Russell Brunson

Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

There’s a moment when a message stops being information… and starts becoming identity. And when that shift happens, logic doesn’t just lose - it becomes irrelevant. That’s the thread I couldn’t stop pulling on this week. Because what’s unfolding right now isn’t just about war, politics, or headlines… it’s about one of the oldest persuasion frameworks ever created quietly running in real time. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it. In this episode, I break down what I call the “Moral Crusade” technique - how leaders take a cause and elevate it into something sacred. Drawing from Gustave Le Bon’s crowd psychology and the origins of modern propaganda, I show you how identity gets fused with belief… and why that fusion is so powerful it can move people beyond reason. Then I bring it back to what we do as entrepreneurs - because the same psychological drivers behind movements, religions, and even wars… are the exact same ones behind the most successful brands and communities in the world. Key Highlights: ◼️The “Sacred Propaganda” framework and why turning a cause into a belief system changes everything ◼️Gustave Le Bon’s 130-year-old discovery about crowds (and why it still runs the world today) ◼️How identity fusion makes people defend ideas like they’re defending themselves ◼️The real reason movements outperform products (and why logic alone never wins) ◼️The 5-part “Identity Stack” I’ve used to build tribes, not just customers At the end of the day, this episode isn’t about agreeing or disagreeing with what’s happening in the world - it’s about recognizing the pattern underneath it. Because once you understand how identity is shaped, you start to see the same mechanics everywhere… in media, in movements, and inside your own marketing. The real question is: are you consciously building something that empowers people… or accidentally creating something that controls them? ◼️If you’ve got a product, offer, service… or idea… I’ll show you how to sell it (the RIGHT way) Register for my next event →⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://sellingonline.com/podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ◼️Still don’t have a funnel? ClickFunnels gives you the exact tools (and templates) to launch TODAY → ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://clickfunnels.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Do you have a funnel, but it's not converting? The problem 99.9% of the time is that your funnel

0:05.0

is good, but you suck at selling. If you want to learn how to sell so your funnels will actually

0:09.3

convert, then get a ticket to my next selling online event by going to sellingonline.com slash podcast.

0:14.7

That's selling online.com slash podcast. This is the Russell Brunson show.

0:22.5

A U.S. military commander told his troops this week,

0:26.1

President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran because

0:30.8

Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.

0:33.4

That is not from a church.

0:35.0

That's from a combat readiness briefing at an American military base.

0:38.6

And over 200 service members have now filed complaints about commanders across every single branch of the military saying the exact same thing.

0:46.8

The propaganda technique they're using is over 130 years old and it might be the most powerful one ever created.

0:52.8

Because once you understand how it works, you'll see it everywhere, not just in wars, but

0:56.6

in every movement, every brand, and every business has ever turned customers into true

1:00.8

believers.

1:03.8

This is the propaganda playbook, where I take the biggest stories in the news and decode

1:07.3

the propaganda techniques hidden inside of them.

1:09.8

And then I'm going to show you how to use the ethical version of those same techniques to grow your business. So that said, let's get right into it. If you watch the last few episodes, you know that the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran just a couple of weeks ago. We broke down how the consent for that war was manufactured step by step before the first bomb ever dropped. If you haven't had a chance to watch that video yet, go and watch after this one.

1:30.3

I'll put the link down in the description below.

1:32.3

But here's what's happened since then.

1:34.3

The war is now in its second week.

1:35.8

Eight U.S. servicemen are dead.

1:37.3

Over 1,200 Iranian civilians are dead.

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