My coworker is an idiot and can’t explain his own thoughts. Nice guy though.

He said he was reading and discovered that Ukrain started the Russian war by building a Dam that would starve a community of water. He didn’t know when or where, but was sure it was before any invading or annexing.

I can’t find any information on this. I’ve been googling and googling. Nothing. I can’t ask him for sources because if I get him going again he won’t stop.

Please help if you know anything.

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    Thank you for the short explainer.

    Hopefully OP is genuine and will come back and see this and then tell his “friend” he is an idiot.

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      Hey, I’m back. Tried to tell him Russia the started the war, but it he was so adamant about this dam. I had no knowledge of it was impossible to break through.

      Probably not going to go back to my coworker, because I just can’t afford to open that can of worms. But I did genuinely need to know. I live in a disinformation riddled hotspot. I try to stay on top of the truth and the small truths bad actors sprinkle in the lies.

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        Well now you are armed with that info for next time. I too have trouble standing up to misinformation. It’s a problem where I won’t just spout things I haven’t verified and can source, no matter how true I THINK it is. It’s baffling how others can just howl into the nothing about things they heard somewhere and are positive it’s true.

        Last time I was sure of a point during one of those sorts of discussions it was amazing to see the deflation in the room. “What do you mean?”

        I mean you guys are idiots, here’s where you can verify that. I didn’t say that because neither of them seem that far gone, they are the helpful idiots. And suddenly the whining about being a victim of a non existent problem quieted down.

        Rainbow