Jen and Noam commemorate the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by discussing the dumbest Ukraine war takes of the present and the past, and wonder where all the war footage is (jk it’s on Twitter we see it every day). 

And in late breaking news - it’s ok to talk about lab leak theory in public now! In fact there seems to be some coalescing of intelligence that it may in fact be the explanation for the COVID pandemic! 

We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live!

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

Thread of the greatest “where is the footage of the war in Ukraine” hits:

https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1629414814886797314

Yes this Brad Paisley / Zelenskyy song is a thing:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/brad-paisley-releases-song-featuring-zelenskyy-wars-anniversary-rcna72189

Reporters Without Borders criticize Ukraine for not wanting to squire reporters around a war zone:

https://rsf.org/en/rsf-urges-ukrainian-authorities-lift-arbitrary-restrictions-reporters-field

Ukrainian war photographer profile:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-life-and-death-of-a-ukrainian-photographer

Seymour Hersh says that the US blew up the Nord 2 pipeline:

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

Seymour Hersh’s nutty interview:

https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1628894592253804547

Bad takes from the beginning of the war:

https://twitter.com/russophileLs/status/1629118997668003842

The Wall Street Journal reports on the emerging lab leak consensus:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a

The Plague Year:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year

China was hoarding PPE before we even knew COVID was a thing:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/05/04/china-covered-up-coronavirus-to-hoard-medical-supplies-dhs-report-finds/?sh=1320c61c1dba

https://globalnews.ca/news/6858818/coronavirus-china-united-front-canada-protective-equipment-shortage/

Infohazard, or the things you wish you didn’t know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hazard

Marjorie wants a divorce…from the nation:

https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1627665203398688768