Episode #653: February 25, 2022

Topics covered:

• Alex’s claim of having predicted the invasion of Ukraine back in fall/winter 2021 is a lie

• Alex believes that the invasion is the West’s fault, for providing military aid to Ukraine

• Alex misrepresents comments about NATO possibly invoking Article 5 if Russia does a cyber attack. This is something that has been discussed going back to at least 2019, including in an op-ed written by the Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

• Putin’s argument that the West promised Russia to not expand NATO is not totally accurate, and Gorbachev has even said that this was not part of the negotiations that he was literally a part of

• Alex lies about a new paper about Covid. He’s only read the Daily Mail article about it, and is exaggerating things from there

• Alex makes up stories about some Chinese media propaganda documents that got leaked. Also, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson has an identical position about Putin’s invasion as Alex does