And who benefits?

Two recent tweets (not mine):

Western pundits in thrall to American “dissident” conservatarianism all “independently” share the same opinions on Covid, ecology, Ukraine, and many other topics.

Source. Also, check out Russian conspiracy theorists from 20 years ago. You may find interesting parallels.

And this:

“Independent” journalists all believe:

– War in Ukraine is US’s fault
– Covid is less dangerous than vaccination
– Jan. 6 is no big deal
– Ukraine is run by Nazis
– US is run by deep-state criminals

“Independent” of what exactly?

Or, we might ask, dependent on whom or what exactly? Shall we resist the temptation to develop a conspiracy theory of our own: all those “dissident minds” were molded in the same propaganda machine? Great minds don’t really think alike.

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