Starmer habe „deutlich bestätigt“, dass Zypern kein Ziel sei, sagt sein Präsident

So glad we are staying out of this shitshow as much as possible.

This little Cyprus side story is absolutely *fascinating* to me. It’s a fantastic case story in how the mainstream media un-subtly drive hysteria.

If anyone goes back to watch the original interview that sparked this furore, John Healy is using these missiles as evidence that the Iranian response is poorly aimed and erratic (Cyprus not being particularly near bases used in the attack). He explicitly says that the missiles that were fired in the direction of Cyprus were not targeting Cyprus.

Then this gets bastardised into the headline „Iran fired missiles at Cyprus“, entirely missing Healy’s entire point, by the news agencies, and the clarification that nothing happened gets buried 7 paragraphs deep under 3 ads.

The Cypriot govenment issues a statement (because of course) that they weren’t the target of a missile attack, because despite the bad-faith clickbait reporting, they weren’t – exactly as John Healy already clarified in the interview that started this whole thing.

Then those articles get posted to places like r/UKpolitics etc where the comments are filled with „experts“ who tell you that the Government is lying to you to „manufacture consent“ to get involved in the US-Iran war.

Now the UK PM has to clarify what the UK government has already publicly said from the start entirely unchanged in a call to the Cypriot government, who are also fully aware that they have not been under missile attack because the media decided to mislead the public for financial gain.