Mike Benz just exposed the shocking truth about how global elites have been pulling strings behind the scenes for decades.
What he revealed sent shockwaves through Washington’s power centers.
And Mike Benz exposed an alarming Soros secret that left global elites panicking when he explained their entire playbook for controlling elections worldwide.
The truth behind “democracy promotion”
In a revealing conversation with Michael Shellenberger posted on May 12, 2025, Mike Benz laid bare the disturbing reality about how America’s foreign policy establishment operates.
Benz explained that after World War II, a fundamental shift occurred in how global power operates.
“World War II ended the Age of Empire 1.0,” Benz stated. “From the Greeks and the Romans all the way until World War II, you could conquer a country by military force, and that would be the map of the world.”
But what replaced this system was something far more insidious – what’s now called “the liberal rules-based international order.”
Instead of tanks and bombs, the real weapons became media control, political manipulation, and the careful management of elections.
The horrifying strategy revealed
The heart of Benz’s revelation is disturbing: global elites realized controlling elections was more efficient than military conquest.
“We found, through our State Department, our military, our intelligence folks, that if you can simply control who becomes president, you don’t need to fight their army,” Benz explained. “In fact, their army becomes your army.”
This strategy fundamentally corrupts the democratic process itself.
“Everything comes down to controlling the election,” Benz emphasized. “And in a state – absent election fraud – the way to control hearts and minds is by controlling the media.”
The free speech deception
Perhaps the most stunning part of Benz’s revelation was how “free speech” itself has been weaponized.
According to Benz, America’s push for free speech around the world wasn’t primarily about upholding noble principles.
“This was a largely self-serving and somewhat cynical exporting of the concept of free speech,” Benz admitted.
Free speech was promoted internationally because it gave American assets the ability to influence foreign elections through media operations.
“The only way to influence a foreign election is if your people, your assets, or people who are aligned with your cause are able to speak, are able to publish their media, are able to hold the assemblies,” Benz explained.
The shocking role of “freedom” organizations
Benz exposed how organizations supposedly dedicated to promoting freedom and democracy have been corrupted.
“Any time there was government censorship up until 2016, the Freedom House report would ding their score,” Benz noted. “Today, Freedom House dings countries if they don’t engage in censorship.”
This complete reversal shows how these organizations have abandoned their principles when populist movements threatened establishment power.
The Soros connection
Particularly alarming was Benz’s revelation about George Soros and his ties to American intelligence operations.
Benz cited a WikiLeaks document showing how the State Department mobilized to protect Soros from criticism in Lithuania.
“The State Department openly says that the Open Society institution there is critical to U.S. statecraft,” Benz revealed.
He also noted that Soros’s Open Society Foundation merged with an affiliate of the “Congress for Cultural Freedom” – which Shellenberger confirmed was “created by the CIA.”
The post-2016 panic
Perhaps most relevant to Americans today was Shellenberger’s observation about what happened after 2016.
“After 2016, this incredible apparatus, with dozens of think tanks and organizations, turned their guns on the populist revolutions,” Shellenberger stated.
When Donald Trump’s election threatened the establishment’s control, they redirected their foreign influence operations inward, targeting American citizens.
Today’s censorship campaigns aren’t about protecting truth – they’re about maintaining the same system of control that’s been operating internationally for decades.
“You have this relationship where they’re self-confessing that what is being reported about Soros and his role in intelligence – Soros and his role in American statecraft – they’re self-reporting that it’s true, while coming up with a strategy about how to paint it as false,” Benz concluded.
The explosive interview between Benz and Shellenberger reveals just how deeply corrupted the notion of “democracy promotion” has become.
Americans are finally waking up to the realization that the same tactics used to control foreign elections have been turned against them.
