This past weekend, The New York Times revealed that the CIA has been deeply involved in Ukrainian politics for a decade, mucking around with politics and engaging in provocations against Russia. We already knew that from everything that non-mainstream commentators have been saying for years. It was reinforced by Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin just two weeks ago, an interview blasted for giving a platform to a bad guy.
Here’s the thing: What the NY Times reported was not news. But it underscores a key theme of our times. The conspiracy theories of a mere fortnight ago are once again shown to be completely real.
This just keeps happening. And on what topics? Essentially everything. It pertains to most subjects.
The signature issue of just a few years ago was the claim that the virus that causes COVID-19 might have come from a lab leak. That claim was universally derided as a conspiracy theory. Then it turned out to be a fully credible claim, which everyone now admits. Top scientists have proven that all the denials were simply wrong.
Then it pertained to masks, social distancing, the vaccine, and every other aspect of the policy response. The dissidents said that none of this would work, but their views were heavily censored by major media and Big Tech. The people who disputed the policies that ruined lives worldwide were derided as “fringe” and crazy. But it turned out that they were entirely correct.
Then there were the people who observed that all mainline social media was being censored in cooperation with a shadowing network of government-backed nonprofits and universities. This claim was said to be nuts, a fantasy born of paranoia. Now we have ironclad proof that the “conspiracy theorists” were wholly correct all along.
The proof is in the form of many thousands of pages of emails and other documents. The Supreme Court will take up the issue soon. Does this violate the First Amendment? The court had better make the right decision else we are truly toast.
