Colonel Pedro Baños: is Spain's military pundit hiding behind an anonymous online persona?
Does Pedro Baños, the Spanish colonel turned YouTuber, take part in anonymous communities? Clues suggest he picks up ideas there, though there is no proof, only speculation.
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Pedro Baños: a colonel with a secret digital double life?
Does Colonel Pedro Baños spend his spare hours debating geopolitics under a pseudonym? That is the question that has been circulating in certain digital trenches for weeks. The former soldier, now a YouTuber and author of strategy books, runs a publishing business that forces him to keep a foot on every social network. But some claim the colonel does not just read anonymous forums: he actively takes part in communities where theories are cooked up before they reach his videos.
The hypothesis has its defenders and its skeptics. The former point out that many of the topics he covers had already circulated in anonymous discussion spaces, suggesting someone on his team monitors them. The latter note that running a YouTube channel, writing books and promoting them leaves no time for anonymity. Some have even claimed he has been seen signing copies in Barcelona, which hardly fits a profile so active in the shadows.
The anecdote that has spread the most is the blues the colonel allegedly recorded at a NATO base. A wink? A provocation? Nobody knows. But if he really is hiding behind an alias, he has already got us reading him with different eyes.
Does Colonel Pedro Baños spend his spare hours debating geopolitics under a pseudonym? That is the question that has been circulating in certain digital trenches for weeks. The former soldier, now a YouTuber and author of strategy books, runs a publishing business that forces him to keep a foot on every social network. But some claim the colonel does not just read anonymous forums: he actively takes part in communities where theories are cooked up before they reach his videos.
The hypothesis has its defenders and its skeptics. The former point out that many of the topics he covers had already circulated in anonymous discussion spaces, suggesting someone on his team monitors them. The latter note that running a YouTube channel, writing books and promoting them leaves no time for anonymity. Some have even claimed he has been seen signing copies in Barcelona, which hardly fits a profile so active in the shadows.
The anecdote that has spread the most is the blues the colonel allegedly recorded at a NATO base. A wink? A provocation? Nobody knows. But if he really is hiding behind an alias, he has already got us reading him with different eyes.
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