RIA Novosti, RT, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, REN TV and other propaganda resources reported a sensation: NATO, together with Ukraine, is already developing a plan to invade Russia. This was told by someone Bradley Devlin in an article for The American Conservative, and the Russian media quoted him:
“Ukraine has been publicly talking about plans to use US and other NATO-supplied weapons in an attempt to seize Crimea. <…> An invasion of Russia with the support of the Alliance is almost guaranteed to lead to the outbreak of a large-scale war.
In fact, even from Devlin's article (which looks more like an author's column) it does not follow that he has any inside information about the impending "invasion of Russia." The material is devoted to Finland's accession to NATO, and the author condemns this decision. Speaking of the "big war", Devlin means that the Alliance will certainly drag Finland into a war with Russia against the will of the Finns:
“Ukraine, sometimes with the encouragement of the United States, has rejected all calls for peace, repeatedly making unrealistic demands on Russia, such as a complete withdrawal from Crimea, to even start a peace process. With Ukraine publicly planning to use US and other NATO-supplied weapons to attempt an invasion of Crimea, there has been little protest from the Biden administration, other than occasional confirmations that the US does not recognize Crimea as Russian territory. But there will be opposition—a NATO-backed proxy invasion of Russia all but guarantees the outbreak of a wider war.
Congratulations, Finland, on becoming the thirty-first member of NATO. Imagine their shock when they realize that NATO membership means participating in wars NATO chooses.”
Even from Devlin's biography it does not follow that he can have any insider information on such matters. Prior to The American Conservative (which regularly publishes articles by fake experts denouncing the United States for helping Ukraine), he worked for The Daily Caller, founded by infamous Fox News host Tucker Carlson. This is a conservative site that has repeatedly published fakes and is associated with white supremacists. In an October 2018 Simmons Research poll of 38 news organizations, The Daily Caller was named the least trusted news organization by Americans. In 2019, The Daily Caller was categorized as an unreliable source of information by the Wikipedia community. Among the fakes published by the authors of this portal are the information that a Chinese company hacked into the personal mail server of the then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and successfully received almost all of her emails (this fake was retweeted by Donald Trump, but the news was subsequently denied by the FBI); a photo of an allegedly naked Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (the photo turned out to be fake); interviews with two women about being paid for sex by Democratic Senator Robert Menendez (they later testified to the Dominican Republic police that they were paid to lie by a Daily Caller employee); as well as numerous articles denying climate change. Employees and authors of The Daily Caller in their spare time published on the far right resources and promoted the supremacy of the white race.
Apart from The American Conservative and The Daily Caller, Bradley Devlin has not worked anywhere else. He has written forThe Daily Wire and The Daily Signal , but only as an intern during his time at UC Berkeley (from which he graduated in 2020). Thus, it is unlikely that a recent graduate of the Faculty of Political Science can reliably know about "NATO plans to invade Russia."
