Following up on the Margaret Sullivan piece I discuss below, here’s an example of theuseful idiocy required to make propaganda work:
There are actually quite a few calls for a no-fly zone but I wouldn’t characterize them all as war hawks and their reasoning isn’t what Tucker says it is. For the record, I’m also against a no-fly zone because I’m very opposed to nuclear war. Duh. The US didn’t do it when Russia rolled into Hungary and Czechoslovakia during the height of the Cold War and the logic of that decision hasn’t changed for good reason. It’s awful but there simply isn’t any way we can take that risk.
Anyway, Tucker is an ass regardless:
And then there’s this:
This is just so bizarre to me. Tucker can say what he wants and his drooling followers are free to believe him. But the idea of supposed isolationist/pacifists justifying Putin’s brutal invasion on the basis of this blatantly fatuous propaganda is pretty stunning.