Watching the divide in republican circles on Iran has been a great way to see who is under Kremlin control. Most are who we already knew: Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson, Rand Paul, etc.
This is just “the anti Vietnam War protestors are secretly working for the soviets” for the modern era. There were just as many conspiracies that left liberals were secretly agents of Moscow in the 60s.
I’m going to respond to a later comment of yours here for the sake of visibility.
Tucker Carlson flew to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin last year. That trip was financed by Tenant Media - the same group that was revealed to have been financed by Russia for the sake of spreading Russian talking points. Justin Trudeau gave testimony under oath that Tucker was shilling for Russia.
- How Russian operatives covertly hired U.S. influencers to create viral videos
- Right-wing US influencers say they were victims of alleged Russian plot
- Tucker Carlson Funded by Russian Propaganda Machine, Justin Trudeau Testifies Under Oath
It is more challenging, generally, to show that politicians are illegally taking money from foreign interests because the pathways by which money is publicly disclosed are more well-known. So the pathways through which money may be hidden can also be followed to disguise the source of income. Unless one gets caught.
As did an aid of Rand Paul’s, who helped funnel Russian money into the RNC during the 2016 election, and whom was later pardoned by Trump, at Rand Paul’s urging.
- Former Rand Paul aide, pardoned by Trump, charged with funneling Russian money into 2016 election
- Ex-Rand Paul aide pardoned by Trump convicted of illegally funneling Russian cash to Trump campaign
As far as Gabbard is concerned - no money trails, but even her own staff think she’s compromised.
Some right wing influencers have already been shown to take Kremlin money
Yeah, and there were plenty of left journalists on the payroll of Moscow in the 60s. They tended to cover the civil rights movement and anti-war movement very positively, does that mean the leaders of those movements were also secretly agents of the communists?
Has there been any proof that the people OP mentioned have any connection to putin? Don’t get me wrong there all horrible people, but it’s not because there “Russian assets” and if they’re gonna go against this God awful war then good on them.
I mean, many of those leaders were communists… But not agents of the Soviets, which was a convenient accusation tho
Maybe “communist” by the 60s definition as in anyone to the left of keynes then yeah I guess so, but MLK wasn’t a communist in any real political sense.
The analogy still holds though, many of the leaders OP is pointing out are regressive right wing nationalist who would naturally align with putin without being agents of the Kremlin.
Both these accusations tend to put the blame of these movements on foreigners meddling with our democracy instead of real strains of thought coming from that democracy that need to be addressed.
Yes, MLK was one of the most moderate representatives of the movement, yet even he was a democratic socialist (even if that played much less of a role in his convictions than his christianity)
Yeah real red blooded Americans want world war III
Real Americans yell TACO at trump until he bombs Iran.
Anti-war people being consistent in their anti-war stance somehow means they’re Putin’s puppets.
Oh, so Tulsi Gabbard definitely 100% publicly denounced Russia’s unprecedented act of aggression and imperial invasion of Ukraine, right…?
… Right… ?
Do not conflate being against the war with Iran as being a Putin puppet.
To the contrary, I am conflating the fact that the alleged “anti-war” person (your words) suddenly wasn’t “anti-war” when Russia invaded Ukraine as being a Putin puppet; that, and the fact that US intelligence reports found that Russia was promoting Tulsi as the Democratic primaries candidate in 2020, among other things.
Bystanders take note how this individual is trying really hard to separate Tulsi Gabbard from the Kremlin. Like, really hard. Deflections and all.
I don’t give a fuck about those people. What I give a fuck about is this:
Watching the divide in republican circles on Iran has been a great way to see who is under Kremlin control.
Is conflating being against the war with Iran with being Putin’s puppet and is drumming support for the war. Stop supporting Trump’s war.
Never once did I say that solely being against war with Iran meant someone was Putin’s puppet. Never. Either work on your reading comprehension or get your eyes checked.
What I did say is that those specific Republican members who are known Kremlin parrots conveniently oppose the war for ulterior motives. This much is clear.
known Kremlin parrots conveniently oppose the war for ulterior motives
What “ulterior motives” if not for being Putin’s puppets? It can’t be because they aren’t Israel’s puppets like Cruz or Trump. It can’t be because war with Iran is fucking stupid.
Sounds like something one of Putin’s puppets would say.
translation from Russian: they will keep bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine, but now it’s going to be a “reaction” just because they were provoked
Oh no. Anyways I still hope he gets the Gaddafi treatment and still don’t want America to go to war with Iran.
America just did go to war with Iran.
Eh, they’re still doing the announced tit for tat. Like after soleimani got schwacked, they lobbed missiles at a US airbase and that was the end of it. It’s saving face by doing something in response, but also not actually escalating by not inflicting any significant damages.
So, despite how ridiculous it looks calling for peace after an exchange of missiles, that’s probably what will happen. The only confounding factor is Israel and that may be the catalyst to sparking more conflict.
The fact that Trump is under the thumb of Israel, who want to obliterate Iran, and putin, who doesn’t, is entertaining to say the least. It’s a complete crap shoot how this ends up overall.
Creating “terrorists” a couple of planeloads of bombs at a time. This is not geopolitics. It’s war. Only the western world could be so crass. It’s only a couple of bombs on sovereign soil…meh. I say this as a Canadian. If the US lobbed bombs at us today I’d be on the warpath. I imagine there are some Iranians with those thoughts as well. It won’t be a one and done even if it’s not all out traditional war.
I’m not justifying the initial strikes, just saying that it probably won’t escalate. At least not immediately.
I hate war.
But if daddy Vladdy is mad…
I still hate war.
Personally I would be very pleased if both Putin and Khamenei were beaten to death by crooked sticks by an angry mob of pissed of civilians. That being said, I’m still not a fan of war.
You have to think at this point the White House is just like two armed camps. The people that work for Putin and the people who work for Netanyahu. Few years ago I’d say they were sharing an uneasy truce, maybe even a burgeoning friendship, but now? God I hope they tear themselves apart.
Don’t forget the 3rd camp of military industrial complexists, just in it to make money bombing whoever wherever
Pretty sure that’s the Netanyahu camp.
What are they going to do? Record 3 hour video of p*tin narrating imaginary history?
Oh no are they going to lose another million soldiers about it and crash their economy even harder?
Putin has already requested that Chuck Schumer write a strongly worded letter on his behalf.
Schumer said he would do it, but forgot 40 minutes later.
Russia’s basically already on two fronts and just lost a huge proportion of its strategic bombers.
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Meh. I don’t see much steering room for their course. It isn’t Russia by the way, it’s Putin and his regime.
As long as they control the government, military, police and other stuff putin and his regime are russia. If russians don’t like that they can make their own Maidan.
That abstraction layer is correct, I think.
The thing with abstraction layers is: they are made to simplify a context. This makes it easier to understand and to see correlations and processes. It also hides details of the picture.
As far as I know there are people in Russia who work for their own goals. Those bridges don’t collapse themselves and it takes someone to derail a train or sabotage a helicopter or provide intelligence about movements.
Yes. Most people just eat the propaganda or at least don’t act up to evade repression (if they would care enough to do so otherwise). That’s normal human behavior, it’s no Russian specialty. Can you think of a current critical situation which would need immediate wide-spread attention, but people tend to ignore it?
