‘Don Quixote-like quest’: Ukraine attack and easing Covid mandates leave US trucker protest on the fringe

The convoy, which set out to clog the streets' has had too few vehicles to make an impact on traffic

Ryan Wright stood around a campfire in Lupton, Arizona, a town on the Navajo reservation where members of an American trucker convoy protest were resting for the night. As the fire flickered he discussed a conspiracy myth about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Putin's invasion of Ukraine, he proffered, was a distraction. I'm not the only one that feels this way," Wright said. But I feel like it's a big fat smokescreen to keep everyone distracted on what is really going on in the world."