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How Tulsi Gabbard Became a Favorite of Russia’s State Media
The New York Times ^ | Nov. 18, 2024, 4:05 p.m. ET | Steven Lee Myers, Jim Rutenberg, Julian E. Barnes

Posted on 11/18/2024 1:35:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

In 2017, when she was still a Democratic member of Congress, Tulsi Gabbard traveled to Syria and met the country’s authoritarian president, Bashar al-Assad. She also accused the United States of supporting terrorists there.

The day after Vladimir V. Putin began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ms. Gabbard blamed the United States and NATO for provoking the war by ignoring Russia’s security concerns.

She has since suggested that the United States covertly worked with Ukraine on dangerous biological pathogens and was culpable for the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany in September 2022. European prosecutors and U.S. officials say that sabotage was carried out by Ukrainian operatives.

Ms. Gabbard’s comments have earned her sharp rebukes from officials across the political spectrum in Washington, who have accused her of parroting the anti-American propaganda of the country’s adversaries. Her remarks have also made her a darling of the Kremlin’s vast state media apparatus — and, more recently, of President-elect Donald J. Trump, who this week nominated her to oversee the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies and departments.

Her nomination as the director of national intelligence has raised alarms among national security officials, not only because of her lack of experience in intelligence but also because she has embraced a worldview that mirrors disinformation straight out of the Kremlin’s playbook.

No evidence has emerged that she has ever collaborated in any way with Russia’s intelligence agencies. Instead, according to analysts and former officials, Ms. Gabbard seems to simply share the Kremlin’s geopolitical views, especially when it comes to the exercise of American military power.

In Russia, the reaction to her appointment has been gleeful, even if Mr. Putin’s government remains wary of American policies, even under a second Trump administration.


(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: bozomaximus; jimrutenberg; julianebarnes; msm; newyorkslimes; reddiaperbabies; russia; russiahoax; russiarussia; stevenleemyers; tulsigabbard
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TRANSLATION: "Russia Collusion," Part Deux.
1 posted on 11/18/2024 1:35:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Send her to a 2 week coding, that’s all she needs. Can also be taken on-line.


2 posted on 11/18/2024 1:38:13 PM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She’s catching a lot of flak.


3 posted on 11/18/2024 1:40:36 PM PST by McGruff (Making America Great Again)
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To: McGruff

McCarthyism, pure and simple. As the left defines that term.


4 posted on 11/18/2024 1:41:33 PM PST by TheConservator (To bar Trump from the presidency, libtards are happy to trash 235 years of the rule of law)
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To: McGruff

Over the target as they say.


5 posted on 11/18/2024 1:41:34 PM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Frank Drebin

👍


6 posted on 11/18/2024 1:42:58 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here we go. Democrats on relentless attack for the next four years.


7 posted on 11/18/2024 1:46:47 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

8 posted on 11/18/2024 1:47:00 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Gosh…someone using their brain rather than the “official narrative”? She must be a Russian agent! /s


9 posted on 11/18/2024 1:47:23 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In looking at such a brain dead headline, I knew at once it would be a Slimes article.

I was not wrong.


10 posted on 11/18/2024 1:47:30 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

it’s the NY Times, not worth reading


11 posted on 11/18/2024 1:47:49 PM PST by drypowder
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
She also accused the United States of supporting terrorists there (Syria)

They weren't terrorists. They were John McCain's friends.

12 posted on 11/18/2024 1:47:52 PM PST by PGR88
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She has since suggested that the United States covertly worked with Ukraine on dangerous biological pathogens and was culpable for the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany in September 2022. European prosecutors and U.S. officials say that sabotage was carried out by Ukrainian operatives.

After the bombing and a tip on X I found the following. I lost it for a few years when the computer I was using died, but I got into the SSD on it recently and found the URL in the screenshot I saved was still valid:

Location of the USS Kearsarge, 9/21/22

As I recall, the Kearsarge remained parked over/near the Nordstream blast site for about a week before abruptly steaming off at full speed 48 hours before the blast, going thru the Denmark straits, across the North Sea and through the English Channel before the blasts. The Wikipedia page for the ship helpfully notes the ship was involved in UUV/UAV training operations in the Baltic in the weeks leading up to the blast. Hmmm....

I'd love to see some investigative journalists do a deeper dive on this.

13 posted on 11/18/2024 1:48:00 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Translation: Combat vet Tulsi is not a neocon warmonger.
14 posted on 11/18/2024 1:48:15 PM PST by Bobbyvotes (Congrats to Trump/Vance tea.m. America has been saved. For a while at least. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
She does not want to start a war with them?

Didn't read the article. Just a guess.

15 posted on 11/18/2024 1:49:56 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

See my tagline.


16 posted on 11/18/2024 1:51:06 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: McGruff

They must be scared of her for some reason.

They’ll let you know who the good ones are.

Hopefully we don’t do what we always do and carry their water for them.


17 posted on 11/18/2024 1:53:26 PM PST by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There they go again at the New Yawk Slimes. Russia, Russia, and Russia.


18 posted on 11/18/2024 1:53:31 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Go Brandon! FCS (Schumer))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exposing Deep State and Swamp corruption = accusations of being a Russian asset.


19 posted on 11/18/2024 1:54:32 PM PST by Kazan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

anyone who disagrees with the official govt narrative

is a foreign agent


20 posted on 11/18/2024 1:55:14 PM PST by joshua c
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