Episode #652: February 21, 2022

Topics covered:

• Alex poorly navigates the lead-up to and the invasion of Ukraine

• Alex refers to the Donetsk Compact, which is most likely the Minsk Agreements

• Alex misreports on a video of Ukrainian police from 2014, saying it’s from Covid protests

• Alex lies that the LGBTQ community aren’t targeted in Russia

• Alex doesn’t really understand Putin’s speech from Feb. 21

• Alex claims that there is no Ukrainian resistance to the invasion, which is not true

• Alex claims that the question of siding with Russia or the West is 50/50 in Ukraine, which is not true

• Roger Stone claims that Jewish people are being made to register in Eastern Ukraine, but this is likely a reference to a hoax story from 2014

• Alex lies to pretend that Pelosi doesn’t know what country Ukraine is