The Facts Matter

 A few days ago, Anne Applebaum was confronted with the falsity of charges of Russian disinformation.  Her response was that she doesn't care.  

I was discussing the falsity of charges of Russian information with a friend recently, writing a lengthy post documenting said falsity.  The response was that this is boring.

I've documented the fact that Adam Schiff was wrong in vouching for the veracity of the Steele Dossier:

Schiff has been notoriously wrong about Trump's involvement with Russia, claiming repeatedly, for example, that the Steele dossier was legitimate.  

Back in 2017, (Schiff) was the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and therefore the man Democrats counted on to lead the charge that Trump had colluded with the Kremlin in order to steal the election. He did so with gusto. Quoting from a dossier prepared by ex-British MI6 agent Christopher Steele, he regaled a March 2017 committee hearing with tales of how Russia bribed Trump adviser Carter Page by offering him a hefty slice of a Russian natural-gas company known as Rosneft and of how Russian agents boosted Trump’s political fortunes by hacking Hillary Clinton’s emails and passing them on to WikiLeaks...   

Hours later, he assured MSNBC that the evidence of collusion was “more than circumstantial.” Nine months after that, he informed CNN’s Jake Tapper that the case was no longer in doubt: “The Russians offered help, the campaign accepted help, the Russians gave help, and the president made full use of that help.” In February 2018, he told reporters: “There is certainly an abundance of non-public information that we’ve gathered in the investigation. And I think some of that non-public evidence is evidence on the issue of collusion and some … on the issue of obstruction.”

We now know definitely that this was false.  The primary sub-source for the Steele Dossier was Igor Danchenko, a DC-based Brookings Institution researcher who obtained incorrect information from Charles Dolan, a longtime Democrat tied to the Clintons since the early 1990s.

With the Steele Dossier discredited, the famous Mueller investigation of Trump was supposedly initiated based upon a Trump aide's meeting with Russian agent Joseph Mifsud.  Mifsud is a western intelligence asset, and not an agent of Putin as alleged, but nobody's cares to discuss this possibility.

Atrocities in the Ukraine war are routinely ascribed to Russians, whereas evidence of Ukrainian responsibility is not even considered in the "free world".  This repeats the coverage of the recent Syrian war with regard to chemical attacks.  Investigation is not important to the "free world".  Rather, there is a frenzy of immediate commendation based upon tribal emotions.

Nobody in the "free world" cares how the anti-Russian faction came to power in 2014.  Revolution or coup?  That question is central to the ongoing conflict, but there is no serious discussion.

Republicans attack Biden as being too soft on Putin.  Putin is a bipartisan scapegoat, justifying aggressive anti-Russian military behavior including increased military spending, censorship, and group think.

I appreciate the freedom of speech we have in the West, but it's no good if we don't speak up.  We are racing toward nuclear war based on lies.