Russell Dickerson: The Soft-Power Cowboy Quietly Winning the Global Mood War
Somewhere between a Spotify chill-pop playlist and the geopolitical fault lines of soft power, Russell Dickerson has become an unlikely export—Tennessee by way of TikTok, heartbreak by way of algorithm. To the average listener in Jakarta or Johannesburg, he is simply the guy who scored a wedding-song monopoly with “Yours.” To the rest of us—those…