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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPandemic and Anti-Vaxxer Conspiracy Theorists are Making the Ukraine Crisis All About Them
For weeks now, misinformation watchers have been monitoring a sudden shift within COVID-19 conspiracy circles, away from railing against masks and mandates and towards spouting pro-Putin propaganda about Russias unprovoked and brutal invasion of Ukraine. Its a strange and striking pivot thats already sparked concerns about the evolution of these communities.
But over the last few days, observers have noticed a new line of arguments about the conflict in Ukraine spreading through these pandemic truther spaces that are arguably more on brandyet also more disturbing. Rather than minimize, excuse, or applaud Russias naked aggression, these theories largely argue that the Ukraine conflict is actually just a false flag manufactured by a sinister, shadowy cabal of global elites to cover up, or expand and perpetuate, their vague yet nefarious pandemic plots.
That is to say, they basically argue that this complex and tragic crisis is actually all about them, and their issues.
As the vaccine law expert and antivax movement watcher Dorit Reiss told The Daily Beast, the emergence and spread of these baseless arguments sheds light on the intense selfishness and self-importance at the heart of these communities. Everything has to be about them, she said. And the crisis they imagine exists has to be the driver of everything that happens in society.
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Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)* divert attention from "plandemic" and vax deaths
* divert attention from US economic collapse
* make Biden look weak
* make Biden look strong
* join with tRump capturing pedophile rings
* fight tRump because tRump armed the Ukrainians
* expose the bioweapon labs
* fight the globalists and WEF (World Economic Forum)
* advance the globalists since he is part of WEF
* get the goods on Biden for stolen election
* find Hunter Biden's other laptop
The RW and the Qonned have proposed all of those as Putin's motives at different times in the last three weeks.
white hat operation approved by Trump. 😏
149 posted on 2022-02-26 by Georgia Girl 2