Not only is the Russian invasion of Ukraine fake, so is the president of Ukraine and the entire continent of Europe, according to some of the leading lights in American media.
SO WHAT
What if there is no mainstream media?
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
Thanks to Twitter, famous journalists, actors and academics have been able to share their interpretations on the geopolitical conflict playing out some 5,000 miles away:
1. The Ukraine crisis is an illusion created by racist white people, just like the continent of Europe, according to Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter behind the 1619 Project.
2. “Long COVID” deranged the mind of Russia President Vladimir Putin and caused him to order the invasion of Ukraine, Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist suggested.
3. “The ruling class is trying to build a new world” from the ashes of the “neoliberal order” starting in Ukraine, warned the Democratic Socialists of America in a statement.
4. The Ukraine war is part of a “scripted reality show” produced by the same people who brought you the pandemic.
5. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a “psy-ops” designed to divide the political right, posited James Lindsay, a mathematician and prominent cultural critic.
WHY IT MATTERS
Former CIA analyst Martin Gurri argued in his 2014 book, “The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium,” that the internet has unleashed an “information tsunami” that is overwhelming conventional sources of information and authority.