Ukraine's Age of Stupidity
Less than exact thinking in demented times
On May 21, one of Ukraine’s most watched programs, The Right to Power, aired on 1+1 TV. A half a dozen guests participated in the 140-minute shit show, which was devoted to the impact of the publication of a half a dozen or so heavily edited snippets from audio recordings of conversations between former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko made in 2015 and 2016.
FoxNews, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Euronews, Newsweek, Mother Jones, Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, The Independent, et cetera wrote about the leak, which was promoted a day earlier by thousands of Kremlin bots and pro-Trumpy ezines. Even renowned Ukraine expert Nina Jankowicz had something to say. But all these stories and self-aggrandizing Twitter dot com posts missed the point.
On May 20, President Volodymyr Zelensky was also eager to talk about the leak at a press conference teeming with pro-Russia trolls in Kyiv. He confirmed that the Prosecutor General’s Office …