Episode #651: February 18, 2022

Topics covered:

• Alex has decided that NATO is invading “Russian-held areas in Ukraine” in an attempt to lure Russia into a war

• Alex wrongly claims that the Donbas region is 98% Russian

• Russia’s strategy of passportization

• Artur Pawlowski was arrested and has been denied bail

• 4 protesters at Coutts charged with conspiracy to murder RCMP members

• Bomb threats to a hospital in Ottawa, the mayor of Windsor, and Ottawa, Ohio

• Tamara Lich, Chris Barber, and Pat King all arrested and charged

• The police chief in Ottawa Peter Sloly resigned

• Tow truck companies were not necessarily in support of the protest, but seemed to be afraid to aid police because of the possibility of reprisals from the protesters

• Making accusations of ethnic cleansing of Russians has been a consistent pattern of Putin (and Medvedev) prior to invasions in 2008, 2014, and now it’s happening in the present

• In relation to both the 2008 war with Georgia and the 2014 annexation of Crimea, there are very serious concerns that Russian forces actually were engaging in ethnic cleansing

• Biden said that he was not going to send troops into Ukraine, but would support Ukraine and impose sanctions

• Chrystia Freeland’s grandfather was the editor of a publication that printed anti-Semitic content based in Poland in WWII

• David Icke isn’t crying, but he could be

• The How Bad Is My Batch website is absurd