This rush for retweets is also leading to some truly embarrassing moments. “Some of y’all went from COVID experts to foreign policy experts on The Twitter in a week,” political commentator Bakari Sellers wrote last week. Yet the take machine must churn on, so now some people on Twitter are weighing in on US foreign policy, or crowing about how they were actually not at all shocked by the invasion. ![]() But now the news dominating the platform is a complicated geopolitical conflict that few likely understand with any real clarity or nuance. At least they probably had some knowledge of what goes on in their own country. It was one thing when a bunch of Americans were tweeting takes about the Trump administration or other facets of US politics. ![]() Since the conflict broke out, people have been posting some of the most cringeworthy, inappropriate, strange, or hilariously out-of-touch content that I have maybe ever observed. It has been nearly a week since Russian President Vladimir Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine.
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