Western Civ trapped in Biggly Heap 'o Shit

I'm kinda an armchair doom-scroller, who follows international geopolitics because I've lost faith in professional sports. I mean, at some point you can't explain decades of Leaf failures without resorting to conspiracy theories. While I am not at all surprised that, as playoff season rolls around, the Leafs suck harder than ever, it does shock me to read that games are deliberately tossed in order to nab the top draft prospects. That's gotta be Russian propaganda for sure! I don't know about you, but for me personally I'm kinda coming round to the view that, all things considered, what we call "Russian propaganda," tends to be more accurate, more timely, more relevant than the usual same-old from ABC/BBC/CBC/CNN/Fox/etc. According to the Rooskie propaganda, they are winning the war in Ukraine. Ya! And if that's not foolishness enough, some of our adversaries are secretly supporting Iran in their futile defiance of God, America, and Israel, not necessarily in that order.