I know, the title is not very “not-the-onion-y”. But the piece of news is: Spanish Foreign Minister Albares was in a radio interview while Leavit said that. So he basically spent her live in a national radio station, in one of the most listened programs of the country.
they’re stressing the american propaganda machine to it’s limits i think, even under Bush they got like a good month or 2+ of narrative building before attacking the ME