[yarpen_z]

For someone who constantly applies bothsideism in the discussion of the Ukraine war and uses "Putin's regime" and "Zelensky's regime" in the same sentence (you can find an example in a very recent interview), I'd say he's not doing a good job of being a US government shill.

(Yes, I know that the original meaning of the word regime does not necessarily imply dictature, his intensions there were very clear and open - there are both sides and they are somehow comparable).

[LarsDu88]

This is something I see really common with Joe Rogan, but it's also an "active measures" tactic taught by multiple generations of Russian (and Soviet) intelligence agencies. Bring in a bunch of reputable individuals and pepper them in with fringe thinkers who support your geopolitical objectives. In the 60s and 70s, more often than not, these could be people with totally naive objectives nice sounding objectives like denuclearization and world peace. Today, a lot of these folks come from both the far left and far right. Matt Taibbi (who worked in to former Soviet Union for many years) fits this profile

The public ability to hold coherent viewpoints on topics gradually erodes.

At the same time, find a way to blackmail some of the most powerful people (Elon?) or buy them out (Trump)

Or I could be totally wrong and Lex could just be a bleeding heart dude who tries to sympathize with both sides on every topic (I hope this is the case).