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Ukraine War Frenzy Proves: It’s Still John McCain’s GOP
substack ^ | April 7 | Michael Tracey

Posted on 04/07/2022 8:32:56 PM PDT by RandFan

“The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin,” fumed John McCain back in March 2017. His target: Rand Paul, who had committed the unforgivable offense of momentarily delaying the latest round of NATO expansion. Montenegro, a tiny country in southeastern Europe that most Americans have never heard of, was about to join the sprawling military alliance — and McCain was determined to see the final ratification ritual proceed with as little debate as possible. So he hurled the time-honored “working for Putin” accusation, and sure enough, Paul quickly withdrew his minor procedural objection. The glorious ascension of Montenegro to NATO membership status was thereby assured.

Since that episode, a lot has transpired regarding the public perception of McCain. He delighted liberals by feuding regularly with Donald Trump — even going so far as to denounce Trump for engaging in “disgraceful” and “pathetic” flattery of Putin. “No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant,” McCain raged. He undermined Congressional Republicans’ legislative agenda during the brief window in Trump’s presidency when the party had unified control of government — famously delivering a dramatic thumbs-down gesture to derail GOP hopes of repealing Obamacare, as a chagrined Mitch McConnell watched powerlessly on.

McCain had returned to his most natural state. After annoying Democrats by running against Barack Obama in the 2008 election, and being surly about his defeat for some time afterwards, he had once again resumed playing the “maverick” role he so relished — reviled by “his own side,” and loved by the “other side.” His death in 2018 brought forth the most effusive display of state-sanctioned grief that any US political figure had received since Ronald Reagan died in 2004, with all the universal media adulation that entails.

(Excerpt) Read more at mtracey.substack.com ...


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To: Who is John Galt?

“Sarah Palin was obviously better qualified to be president than McCain, Obama, OR Biden...” 100% true.

I learned by reading comments here at FR about the crimes of McCain. I had no idea. And yes, Ted Kennedy is not someone you wish to trade places with.


21 posted on 04/07/2022 10:31:19 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: RandFan

And apparently FR has a McCain fan club, too.


22 posted on 04/08/2022 12:23:43 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: RandFan

The RINO Establishment is still on board for constant foreign wars. Most America First patriots are not. The latter are by far the majority - as the RINOs are learning in this year’s primaries.


23 posted on 04/08/2022 2:47:20 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: nickcarraway

Michael Tracey is a commie lunatic. Logic doesn’t matter to his kind.

His idiocy receiving a warm welcome here is a testimony of how low the Free Republic has fallen.


24 posted on 04/08/2022 2:57:58 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: FLT-bird
"The RINO Establishment is still on board for constant foreign wars. Most America First patriots are not."

America First cost many thousands of WWII lives after 1939.

...and didn't reflect well on Charles Lindbergh's legacy...

25 posted on 04/08/2022 3:07:09 AM PDT by Does so (https://youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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To: Does so

Until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the U.S. had no reason to become involved in World War II. Remember that Germany declared war on the U.S., not the reverse. We were supplying Britain and later the Soviet Union before the Japanese attack. We were under no treaty obligation to support either of those nations, or the countries Hitler overrun.


26 posted on 04/08/2022 3:17:13 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: FLT-bird
The RINO Establishment is still on board for constant foreign wars. Most America First patriots are not.

True, screw the warmongering neocons. "All the way up with a red hot poker". I could not care less about the Ukraine's border with Russia.

27 posted on 04/08/2022 3:27:45 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: PGR88

More Americans want Biden replaced than want Putin replaced.


28 posted on 04/08/2022 3:28:33 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Does so

Not everything is WWII and not every foreign leader you don’t like is Hitler.....though that is always the accusation.


29 posted on 04/08/2022 3:37:53 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: RandFan
I love it, you're arguing along with the author that Trump was wrong to arm Ukraine, and therefore I guess Obama was right.

Whatever personality conflict existed between McCain and Trump, the actual policy portfolio enacted by Trump vis-a-vis Russia wasn’t all that different from what McCain’s might’ve been. Indeed, when Trump announced the weapons transfers, McCain showered him with praise. And when Trump abrogated the INF Treaty, he was fulfilling another longtime McCain goal

30 posted on 04/08/2022 3:39:19 AM PDT by tlozo (Trump-the Russian invasion of Ukraine is " truly a crime against humanity")
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To: tlozo

Obama was awful!

Not only did he forbid the US to provide man-portable ATGM-s, he also fired General Breedlove for having put together a deal where Ukraine would trade their APC-s for Pakistan’s TOW-2 missiles.


31 posted on 04/08/2022 3:44:55 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: RandFan

32 posted on 04/08/2022 4:32:58 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Wallace T.

“[Nazi Admiral] Donitz thought the U.S. military was ill-prepared and unequipped to fight the well-trained U-boat fleet. He was right.

On the evening of Jan. 11, 1942, Reinhardt Hardegen, the audacious captain of U-boat 123, jumped the gun...”

https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/u-boat-attacks-of-world-war-ii-6-months-of-secret-terror-in-the-atlantic/

All we had against the U-boat fleet off the US’ East coast was the CAP, which cost even those civilian flyers 62 lives.

Then the US Government lied about the Nazi threat, even when burning tankers could be seen off the New Jersey coast!

Denial was strong when the threat was immense!


33 posted on 04/08/2022 7:14:33 AM PDT by Does so (https://youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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To: FLT-bird; Wallace T.

Not everything is WWII, but it rhymes.

One Congressman voted against war with Japan. Would that vote have had your support?


34 posted on 04/08/2022 7:18:42 AM PDT by Does so (https://youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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To: RandFan

Arizona was stolen almost entirely because McCain Republicans hated Trump so much they were willing to lose to get rid of him.


35 posted on 04/08/2022 7:24:34 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Travis McGee
“F the EU” Victoria Nuland’s husband, Robert Kagan:

https://www.politico.com/reporters/RobertKagan.html

Robert Kagan is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the United States ...

36 posted on 04/08/2022 7:35:24 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Does so
Keep in mind the U.S. was preparing for war after the Germans and Soviets overran Poland. The draft was reinstituted in 1940, and military expenses accelerated. Our Navy was in an undeclared war against German attacks on cargo ships providing military supplies to Britain and France.

While Roosevelt and his advisors were well aware of the Nazi and Japanese threats, the American people were largely antiwar, because of the results of World War I. The European empires fell, but were largely replaced by Communist or fascist governments. The "War to End All Wars" did not bring freedom east of the Rhine, but governments worse than the monarchies they replaced.

37 posted on 04/08/2022 9:33:20 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Does so

Japan actually attacked us. The US has no and I repeat NO vital national interest in Ukraine. It was insane for the Victoria Nuland’s and other Deep state warmongers to be messing around overthrowing government there. It should have been obvious to anybody with above a room temperature IQ that Russia would view it as their back yard and would be extremely sensitive about it - as all major powers are about their back yard. Leave it alone.

Getting involved in a war of choice against a nuclear armed state over something that is not vital to our national interest would be the height of reckless insanity.


38 posted on 04/08/2022 9:34:04 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: jpsb; Wallace T.; FLT-bird

“The US has no and I repeat NO vital national interest in Ukraine”.

Ukraine is very rich in resources that support Red China—but more importantly—also the new Soviet Russia. (That Putin regrets having lost as he helplessly watched).

Titanium is the structure of every Soviet submarine. Ukraine possesses about 70% of the world’s supply of Titanium. Add the many oil deposits that fuels the world’s demands and Putin’s wars.

Like Pearl Harbor, the US shouldn’t sleep through this.

“Boots on the ground” aren’t necessary: the thought only serves those who would encourage another invasion of Putin’s neighbors.


39 posted on 04/08/2022 12:08:35 PM PDT by Does so (https://youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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