Posted on 07/26/2022 8:39:28 AM PDT by Kazan
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and former Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard have been listed by Ukraine among a number of American politicians, academics and activists Kyiv claims have promoted “Russian propaganda.”
The list was compiled by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation, founded in 2021 by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to study the impact of Russian disinformation. The center is part of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council.
The list—which also includes retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor, military strategist Edward Luttwak, political scientist John Mearsheimer and journalist Glenn Greenwald—does not explain what the consequences are for those who Ukraine clearly considers responsible for promoting the Kremlin’s line. But it offers explanations for inclusion on the list.
In April, Paul said President Joe Biden provoked Russia to invade its neighbor by advocating Ukraine’s entrance into NATO.
He also said: “You could also argue the countries they’ve attacked were part of Russia. Or part of the Soviet Union.”
Paul was immediately rebuked for this by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said Russia was not justified in invading Ukraine.
Former Rep. Gabbard said that the U.S. had provoked Putin for many years and that there are 25 dangerous biolabs in Ukraine that could release deadly pathogens.
The former representative has been accused of of lending credibility to Russian propaganda.
The biolab claims have also been supported by Greenwald, who Ukraine says didn’t want the U.S. to help Ukraine to avoid provoking Russia into a nuclear war.
Macgregor is listed as having said that the Russian army was highly skilled and “invincible,” while Mearsheimer is on Ukraine’s blacklist for having said NATO provoked Vladimir Putin into war.
Luttwak is listed as having given support to holding referendums in the breakaway Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.
Newsweek has contacted Paul, Gabbard, Macgregor, Mearsheimer, Greenwald and Luttwak for comment.
Greenwald told UnHerd that the list was “standard McCarthyite idiocy.” Mearsheimer told the news site he was disappointed with being listed as a Russian propagandist, while he defended his claim that the war was provoked by the U.S. wanting to accept Ukraine into NATO.
Luttwak also objected to the label of Russian propagandist. Talking to UnHerd, he said he was not “exactly Putin’s most faithful agent,” saying he has argued for Western powers to send weapons to Ukraine since “day one of the war.”
As well as U.S. citizens, the list of “Russian propagandists” includes political figures, experts and public figures from Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, Poland and France.
Other Americans on the list are: political and business advisor Harlan Ullman, author Paul Pillar, economists Jeffrey Sachs and Steve Hanke, political analyst Brian Berletic, academics Patrick Basham and Clifford Kiracofe, former army officer David Payne, ex-diplomat Michael Springmann, retired intelligence officer Scott Ritter, finance specialist Jason Ross, businessman Mike Callicrate, politicians Geoff Young and Diane Sare, journalists Caleb Maupin and Tony Magliano, retired business consultant George Koo, Republican former Senate staffer Jim Jatras, former CIA officer Ray McGovern, former Virginia State Senator Richard Black and political analyst Graham Fuller.
Oh the biolabs that created super soldiers.
And required a war in Europe.
You’re an idiot.
Ah, those that don't support funding Zelensky are on the enemies list.
Tulsi is a leftist.
You’re in good company.
Why would I become a Democrat when my positron is the position of
DONALD TRUMP
NEWT GINGRICH
Now answer that and tell me who’s the Democrat leftist. That would be you.
Their neocon paymasters may find themselves under a microscope post November 2022.....
Is my blog on the list too?
I know I have arrived if it is.
I’ve gotten a lot of hits from Ukraine over the last three years or so.
Maybe if you throw in Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, George Washington, and Jesus it would help.
At this point, they can just go ahead and lose it. I've about had my fill of their clown president, their bilking of U.S. taxpayers out of billions, their corruption, and then garbage like this calling Rand Paul a "Russian propagandist" because he doesn't kiss their sorry behinds like most D.C. politicians.
“Everything we accuse Russia and Putin of is actually true of Ukraine and Zelensky”
Actually not. Zelensky didn’t murder people by blowing up apartment buildings, but Putin did. Zelensky didn’t murder opponents with radioactive polonium, Putin did. Zelensky didn’t invade Russia, Putin invaded Ukraine. You Putin fans have allied yourself with a mass-murdering devil.
We get all our food from Ukraine?
Tulsi, and Rand are just fine in my book. Must not be towing the company line.
Don’t really care what you’re tired of. And NOTHING Zelensky has done in fighting Russia has been “clownish”.
Change your name cause my position is Trump’s.
Biden has lost the Ukraine message and the Deep State has re-engaged the war with those who oppose them.
I agree.
Ukraine is a neocon and criminal enterprise. Their own government doesn’t give a shart for their own people. The people die for nothing while those homos in charge line their pockets with foreign money.
All I know is, I’ve seen a ton of Ukrainian propaganda, and hardly any Russian. One is way more omnipresent in the West, parroted by our mainstream press. The other is not.
All we get is laughable stories about the “Ghost of Kyiv” and sunny tales of victory for the glorious Ukrainian army.
Ignore list.
Most people from all countries at the top of politics have met with Klaus Schwab. Some may have bought Schwab’s crap, and others not so much.
Trump also went to Davos and met Schwab.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/17/trump-to-attend-davos-after-skipping-it-last-time.html
“Everything we accuse Russia and Putin of is actually true of Ukraine and Zelensky”
Actually not. Zelensky didn’t murder people by blowing up apartment buildings, but Putin did. Zelensky didn’t murder opponents with radioactive polonium, Putin did. Zelensky didn’t invade Russia, Putin invaded Ukraine. You Putin fans have allied yourself with a mass-murdering devil.
Hate to say it but there is plenty of evidence on both sides of war crimes. It is kind of a standoff.
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