Tucker looks at the lies the Biden administration has told to manipulate American public opinion about the war in Ukraine. Highlights include:
“Weeks before the Russian military invaded Ukraine, a chilling story began to appear in a number of American media outlets. Unnamed sources in the Biden administration warned that Vladimir Putin was preparing what they called a ‘false flag attack.’ The point of the ‘attack’ was to be a pretext for war with Ukraine.”
“The suggestion was that Putin would stage a mass killing and then accuse the Ukrainians of doing it. So, the Pentagon warned Americans to expect ‘very graphic propaganda, including footage of corpses and actors that would be depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations as well as military equipment in the hands of Ukraine or the west.'”
“It was a pretty complex story, but the media accepted all of it at face value and then repeated it uncritically.”
“Officials said that Putin was about to use chemical weapons in Ukraine. Joe Biden himself repeated that story, and that’s why, Biden told us, we need to send another $14 billion in tax dollars to the Ukrainian government. Everyone in Washington accepted this at face value, and the US government sent the money.”
“But Biden was not telling the truth, and weeks later the administration admitted that. According to NBC news, multiple Biden administration officials have confirmed that there is ‘no evidence Russia has brought any chemical weapons near Ukraine’, so that wasn’t true, but it wasn’t the only lie. NBC described this fiction about chemical weapons as just one of a ‘string of examples of unverified information the Biden administration claimed was real.'”
“So they weren’t just lying to us about what was happening in Ukraine, they were lying to us at scale. But, amazingly, and this is the telling point, NBC was not bothered by that. In fact, they celebrated it.”
“If news organizations are eagerly promoting lies about a war, then what can the rest of us believe? What can we know is true?”
“And honestly, it’s hard to know what is true. We can be sure that Russian soldiers have committed atrocities in Ukraine, there are countless pictures of that, some number of them must be real. But we can also be dead certain the war is not, despite what they tell us, a childish tale of good vs evil. This is Eastern Europe, after all. Everything is a lot more complicated than it looks on American TV.”
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