Anita Chabria: Schwarzenegger attacks Putin's lies about Ukraine. It's a sign of hope for the truth
Truth is hard to come by these days, even when you go looking for it.
In the jargon of the moment, we are overrun with misinformation and disinformation — which I like to call stupidity, lies and propaganda, just to keep things simple.
In that vast darkness of confusion and the animosity it purposefully breeds, a hero has emerged, one whose weapon is truth: Arnold Schwarzenegger.
OK, OK, that's heavy-handed and my screenwriting Oscar isn't coming anytime soon, but I bet you get the point. It's hard not to like the guy at this particular moment, because today, for the second time in a little over a year, he's offered us powerful veracity and authenticity about current events that are otherwise overrun by lies.
In case you had better things to do, expressing his respect for them while eviscerating Vladimir Putin's state-controlled version of the invasion of Ukraine. By noon, it had been viewed nearly 6 million times on Twitter and 400,000 times on Telegram, a platform still available inside Russia.
