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tomorrowusa · 2 months

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US aid to Ukraine, delayed by pro-Putin House Republicans in the US, has caused European NATO members to speed up their own assistance to the Ukrainians.

Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren says Ukraine should receive its first F-16 fighter jets this summer as Europe pushes to aid Kyiv amid complications sparked by a stalled aid package in the U.S. Congress. Ollongren told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service during a visit to Kyiv on March 21 that a plan to deliver 24 F-16s jets is on track, with the first aircraft coming from Denmark. "I think we are on track to see deliveries, first Danish this summer, and then we're going to scale up," she said while declining to give the exact number of planes involved in the first delivery. "We know that we will start with the Danish F-16s, that is now in our planning and in the Ukrainian planning. And in the end, I mean, it doesn't matter anymore. If it's a Dutch or Danish or Norwegian F-16 because [the planes are] going to be Ukrainian." The arrival of the fighter jets will be a long-awaited development to help Kyiv fill a crucial hole in its defense capabilities. Russia has used its more advanced and more numerous jets to repeatedly bomb Ukrainian cities, slow its counteroffensive, and threaten its ships exporting grain crucial to its economic survival, making Kyiv’s acquisition of modern U.S. jets a key ingredient to its successful defense of the country.

There is also talk in Europe of imposing tariffs on Russian grain.

EU eyes tariffs to 'choke off' Russian grain sales

Back in the US, contact your House member and urge support for aid to Ukraine against Putin's genocidal invasion.

With Democrats, thank them for their support; appreciation for previous efforts will encourage them to stay the course. With Republicans, ask them why they are helping one of America's most virulent enemies; tell them that Ronald Reagan would be ashamed of their tacit backing for the Evil Empire.

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These 18 17 Biden district Republicans are particularly vulnerable.

^^^ 10 of those 17 are from California or New York. Most of those Republicans on that chart are from blue states. This is not something we can dismiss as a red state matter.

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thedepressedjuggalette · 1 month

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If you live in Texas and believe that women should have reproductive rights and the right to basic healthcare and privacy, then you need to start supporting the right charities and get involved with politics. Abortion is healthcare. Not every pregnancy is live and able to make it to term. It's not as rare as you think and some are an extreme risk to the mother's health.

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trmpt · 6 months

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#pro putin republicans #trump cult #republican pandemonium

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odinsblog · 4 months

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Abby Philip very plainly and publicly called Tucker Carlson a liar on an internationally televised media outlet. Ask yourself why Tucker Carlson didn’t immediately file a defamation lawsuit against Ms. Philip and CNN. And if he does file a flimsy, face saving, “for show” lawsuit, ask yourself why he will lose.

Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Party, the NRA, Fox News and Tucker Carlson have been purchased by the Kremlin. They are all Russian assets spreading Russian talking points, disinformation and pro-Putin propaganda directly from their bosses in the Kremlin. (sources)

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qqueenofhades · 1 year

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Man, the Russia/Ukraine war has led to a lot of terrible takes from far leftists. I have a mutual from Brazil, a self identified socialist, who is convinced that Ukraine is full of nazis. While they don't support Russia, they questioned why they have to be "pro-Ukraine" or "pro-Russia". They call Ukraine a "nazi hole" but call Russia merely "fascist". Am I wrong in thinking that they've been influenced by Russian propaganda? I know Ukraine does have a nazi/far right problem, but so does the US? And most European countries? idk they strongly hate the US/US government too, and it seems to create some kind of brainrot. at least they don't blindly support China or Russia like tankies do (nor identify with them), but it's still frustrating to take a neutral position on a pretty black and white situation.

I don't want to confront them 1) cause I'm not the type to argue over serious things like this and this may break our long friendship and 2) I'm not super educated on the nazi situation in Ukraine.

Anyway thank you for letting me rant in your inbox.

Yes, Russia has specifically focused its propaganda efforts on Latin America, Africa, and other regions that HAVE suffered from Western/European/American imperialism and are thus predisposed to take the worst view of them/believe that this situation is their fault somehow. This is similar to what the USSR did in newly postcolonial Africa in the 1960s and 1970s, positing themselves as offering the shared hand of communist brotherhood from Western oppressors. Because of more recent events like the invasion of Iraq, which was fully as unjustified as the invasion of Ukraine, Russian propagandists and their eager tankie/leftist foot soldiers have also got a lot of mileage out of "whataboutism." This is likewise an old Soviet propaganda technique designed to deflect any criticism of the actual situation by disingenuously asking "what about this other one!!!"

Likewise, the idea that Ukraine has a "Nazi problem" is itself propaganda. In the last election, far-right/Nazi-identified parties won barely 2% of the vote and AFAIK, no seats at all in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). This is far lower than the nearly half of the USA voting for the far-right/Nazi-sympathetic Republican Party, and as noted, the far right elements in the UK and Europe. The idea that Ukraine is "full of Nazis" (with a Jewish president who just celebrated iftar with the Ukrainian Muslims/Crimean Tatars during Ramadan and instituted observance of Muslim holidays nationwide, very Nazi of him) is a line used by Russian propagandists to "justify" their attack and appeal to national memories of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) and the struggle against the Nazis, which is the central cultural grievance/memory in modern Russia. The Putin regime has referred to anyone they don't like, but especially the Ukrainians, as "Nazis" for a long time now, so it's supposedly their holy duty to kill them/commit ethnic cleansing/forcibly reunite the "fraternal" people of "Little Russia," as Ukraine has been called since the 17th century, with "Great Russia." And yeah, no.

Because the West and Europe has been pretty solidly on Ukraine's side, Russia has therefore cultivated countries like China, India, Brazil, etc, who have all suffered from Western interference and are looking to move into the first rank of global superpowers. This is, as noted, similar to the competing systems of influence built during the Cold War, but it also relies on much deeper Russian grievances that go back to the medieval era. Anybody who knows a thing about actual Russian history would therefore know that every single word it says about the Ukraine situation is a lie, but because that lie is useful for many other countries and fits into their own understanding of themselves, it is easy to repeat and act like it's a so-called superior moral position. This is also why US/American tankies so eagerly lap up Russian propaganda, because it plays into their moral sense of themselves as far better than the rest of the West and "righteously" discovering that the West is responsible for all the evil in the world etc etc. While non-Westerners are just helpless misunderstood puppets with no real agency or ability to make complex choices. This totally makes sense!!!

#anonymous #ask #russia ukraine war #russian history #as ever tankies are the fucking absolute worst and wrong about everything

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republicansaredomesticterrorists · 5 months

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I keep telling you Republicans are using pro-Palestine propaganda to split the Democratic vote by turning liberals against Biden.

There are so many new and old troll accounts here and on other social media sites that have no history of progressive messaging but are going full speed ahead to blame Biden for the war he had nothing to do with.

This page is joining others and blocking anyone who blames Biden for what is happening in Palestine. We’re not going to live through another Trump Republican nightmare because a few trolls are fooling people into blaming Biden.

Again for the mindless, who in their right minds thinks a Republican administration would be better for Palestinians or any Muslim. How short sighted can people be already.

No more RepubliKKKlan propaganda and dirty tricks. Vote Blue, end the wars, and f—k Iran and Putin for using Hamas as a tool.

#republican propaganda #republican assholes #israel hamas conflict #vote blue #wake up #traitor trump #crooked donald #traitor

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charlesoberonn · 3 months

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The Republican party are openly and explicitly pro-Putin now, refusing to vote on Ukraine aid no matter what is offered to them.

January 3rd, 2025 can't come soon enough.

#politics #us politics #ukraine-russia war #putin

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mariacallous · 1 month

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It’s not too late, because it’s never too late. No outcomes are ever preordained, nothing is ever over, and you can always affect what happens tomorrow by making the right choices today. The U.S. Congress is finally making one of those right choices. Soon, American weapons and ammunition will once again start flowing to Ukraine.

But delays do have a price. By dawdling for so many months, by heading down the blind alley of border reform before turning back, congressional Republicans who blocked weapons and ammunition for Ukraine did an enormous amount of damage, some of it irreparable. Over the past six months, Ukraine lost territory, lives, and infrastructure. If Ukraine had not been deprived of air defense, the city of Kharkiv might still have most of its power plants. People who have died in the near-daily bombardment of Odesa might still be alive. Ukrainian soldiers who spent weeks at the front lines rationing ammunition might not be so demoralized.

The delay has changed American politics too. Only a minority of House Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson, joined most Democrats to approve $60 billion in aid yesterday. What is now clearly a pro-Russia Republican caucus has consolidated inside Congress. The lesson is clear: Anyone who seeks to manipulate the foreign policy of the United States, whether the tin-pot autocrat in Hungary or the Communist Party of China, now knows that a carefully designed propaganda campaign, when targeted at the right people, can succeed well beyond what anyone once thought possible. From the first days of the 2022 Russian invasion, President Vladimir Putin has been trying to conquer Ukraine through psychological games as well as military force. He needed to persuade Americans, Europeans, and above all Ukrainians that victory was impossible, that the only alternative was surrender, and that the Ukrainian state would disappear in due course.

Plenty of Americans and Europeans, though not so many Ukrainians, supported this view. Pro-Russia influencers—Tucker Carlson, J. D. Vance, David Sacks—backed up by an army of pro-Russia trolls on X and other social-media platforms, helped feed the narrative of failure and convinced a minority in Congress to block aid for Ukraine. It’s instructive to trace the path of a social-media post that falsely claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky owns two yachts, how it traveled up the food chain late last year, from the keyboard of a propagandist through the echo chamber created by trolls and into the brains of American lawmakers. According to Senator Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, some of his colleagues worried out loud, during debates about military aid to Ukraine, that “people will buy yachts with this money.” They had read the false stories and believed they were true.

But with the passage of this aid bill, Russia’s demoralization campaign has suffered a severe setback. This is also a setback for the Russian war effort, and not only because the Ukrainians will now have more ammunition. Suddenly the Russian military and Russian society are once again faced with the prospect of a very long war. Ukraine, backed by the combined military and economic forces of the United States and the European Union, is a much different opponent than Ukraine isolated and alone.

That doesn’t mean that the Russians will quickly give up: Putin and the propagandists who support him on state television have repeatedly stated that their goal is not to gain a bit of extra territory but to control all of Ukraine. They don’t want to swap land for peace. They want to occupy Kharkiv, Odesa, Kyiv, and more. Now, while their goals become harder to reach, is a good moment for the democratic countries backing Ukraine to recalibrate our strategy too.

Once the aid package becomes law this week, the psychological advantage will once again be on our side. Let’s use it. As Johnson himself recommended, the Biden administration should immediately pressure European allies to release the $300 billion in Russian assets that they jointly hold and send it to Ukraine. There are excellent legal and moral arguments for doing so—the money can legitimately be considered a form of reparations. This shift would also make clear to the Kremlin that it has no path back to what used to be called “normal” relations, and that the price Russia is paying for its colonial war will only continue to grow.

This is also a good moment for both Europeans and Americans to take the sanctions and export-control regimes imposed on Russia more seriously. If NATO were running a true economic-pressure campaign, thousands of people would be involved, with banks of screens at a central command center and constantly updated intelligence. Instead, the task has been left to a smattering of people across different agencies in different countries who may or may not be aware of what others are doing.

As American aid resumes, the Ukrainians should be actively encouraged to pursue the asymmetric warfare that they do best. The air and naval drone campaign that pushed the Black Sea Fleet away from their coastline, the raids on Russian gas and oil facilities thousands of miles from Ukraine, the recruitment of Russian soldiers, in Russia, to join pro-Ukraine Russian units fighting on the border—we need more of this, not less. The Biden administration should also heed Johnson’s suggestion that the United States supply more and better long-range weapons so that Ukrainians can hit Russian missile launchers before the missiles reach Ukraine. If the U.S. had done so in the autumn of 2022, when Ukraine was taking back territory, the world might look a lot different today.

This war will be over only when the Russians no longer want to fight—and they will stop fighting when they realize they cannot win. Now it is our turn to convince them, as well as our own pro-Russia caucus, that their invasion will fail. The best way to do that is to believe it ourselves.

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warsofasoiaf · 5 months

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I'm interested to hear what you think of the New York Times article that says Putin is open to a ceasefire. The article indicates most of the West doesn't buy it, or if they do buy it they aren't open to it. And the US, thankfully, has made it clear that they will not negotiate for the Ukrainians, as they respect the Ukrainian right to self determination.

I think Putin is doing this in part to influence the Republicans in Congress. Most of the House Republicans, including the House Speaker, are Russian shills (Johnson received over $36 thousand from Russian oligarchs), and I think they might use Russia's "openness" to a ceasefire to hold up aid even if a deal is struck regarding boarder security.

Oh, it's very much BS, and it is a political tactic meant to enrich skeptics toward Ukrainian aid by trying to portray Russia as a reasonable party hoping to seek peace while the Ukrainians are unreasonable warmongers. This is a tactic that is solely geared toward Western audiences, not just the pro-Russia MAGAites in Congress, but parties in the EU looking for ways to circumvent Orban's obstructionism.

If Russia was actually serious about a peace deal, they'd convene a peace summit with Ukrainian negotiators, probably trying to pick China as a mediator (which Ukraine would be wise to reject given China's overtly pro-Russian position). This appears to be a "controlled" leak toward select sources. After all, it's not like this is the first time the New York Times has either directly published or been manipulated to publish pro-Russian news articles. Pravda on the Hudson indeed.

As we've just seen with the destruction of the Novocherkassk or the downing of the Russian Su-34's, there is very much a case that Ukraine aid continues to produce measurable results on the battlefield. While I absolutely agree that Ukraine is the only party that should be involved in a Ukrainian peace, I also believe it's worth noting that a peace treaty that favors Ukraine is in Western interests, and an unconditional withdrawal from all Ukrainian territory which parlays into US and European basing rights in Ukraine, a rebuilding package that gets Ukraine back on its feet, and induction into NATO to secure deterrence against Russian aggression even more so.

Thanks for the question, Bruin.

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#russo ukrainian war #russia #ukraine

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theivorybilledwoodpecker · 4 months

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First politicians accused ProPalestinian protesters of being antisemitic. Then the White House likened them to the Charlottesville Nazis. Then Biden called at least one a MAGA Republican. Now Pelosi is saying they have ties to Putin.

For all vote-blue-no-matter-who people, surely you can see how dangerous this is. If Trump and Republicans made statements like this, you would not hesitate to call him out on fascism.

Democrats are basically saying, "If you oppose genocide, you're evil Nazis who may even be funded by Russia!"

Their goals are clear: Silence voices without openly saying they oppose freedom of speech, and quell protests without openly saying they oppose the right to protest. Scare people into silently watching as they commit genocide.

I know it hurts to admit your party would do this. But if it was the GOP saying these things, you would not hesitate to recognize them as a danger to democracy.

#palestine #israel #gaza #nancy pelosi #us politics #vote blue #vote blue no matter who

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tomorrowusa · 10 months

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Putin Russia's historical revisionism would not feel out of place in the Florida of Ron DeSantis's pro-slavery curriculum.

Like Florida, Russia is revising its history textbooks to reflect the ideology of its supreme leader.

New History Textbook For Russian High Schools Includes Propaganda On War In Ukraine

Russia has issued a new history textbook for students in their final year of high school with a section about the war in Ukraine that echoes Russian propaganda. The textbook contains a completely rewritten history from 1970 to 2000, reducing the general history section and expanding parts about Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The 17 paragraphs in the chapter on the war in Ukraine include Russian propaganda claiming the United States is the main beneficiary of the war and describing occupied territories of Ukraine as "new regions" of Russia. The textbook will be included in the curriculum from September 1.

If Russia used advisers from Florida to re-write its history, we might see items like these in Russian textbooks:

Stalin's intentional genocidal famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s was really an attempt to get Ukrainians to adopt a healthier diet.

The execution of the USSR's most competent generals during the Great Terror of 1936-1938 was designed to lure Hitler into a false sense of security.

The Gulags were built to relieve a housing shortage.

The deportation of the Tatars from Crimea to Central Asia was an extended vacation.

The invasions of Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968) were part of an ongoing cultural exchange program with Eastern European neighbors.

Getting back to Florida, the situation continues to deteriorate.

Just when you thought Florida's educational system couldn't get any worse...

It's no longer surprising that the Putin régime and Republicans in the US are on the same page philosophically.

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thedepressedjuggalette · 2 months

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odinsblog · 10 days

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Tankies and Republicans using the exact same bullshit pro-Russian talking points. It’s a subservient, pro-authoritarian mindset. “If we just appease Putin then everything will be okay.” “If we appease Trump then everything will be fine.” Pfft 🙄

Honestly I’m beginning to believe that in its current usage, the word “tankie” is just a transitive iteration for “Libertarians”

Anyway, I know that particular “NATO” disinformation talking point is irresistible to tankies so it’s always worth repeating the truth: Ukraine wasn’t in NATO when Putin illegally invaded Crimea in February of 2014, and Ukraine was not in NATO nor was it seeking NATO membership when Russia illegally invaded Ukraine in February 2022. But Ukraine would have to be crazy to not want to be in NATO now, after two whole ass illegal invasions by Russia

#politics #ukraine #russia #vivek ramaswamy #republicans #tankies #russian propaganda #libertarians #russian invasion of ukraine #russia is a terrorist state #appeasement #russian imperialism #russian colonialism #authoritarianism #russian fascism ☭

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qqueenofhades · 1 month

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This may be a stupid question but do you really believe MTG is funded by Putin? In my head she's too fucking stupid to be calculating enough to actually enrich herself.

I don't know if she is actually getting money from the Kremlin or she's just a moron who loves to believe whatever conspiracy theorist nonsense she's told, but I think it's pretty clear she is either being handled fairly directly by Russian intelligence or is closely plugged into sophisticated Russian propaganda systems. Example A, Marge submitting an amendment to the Ukrainian aid bill insisting that aid not be disbursed until the Ukrainian government allegedly stopped "oppressing Hungarians in Transcarpathia." This is a key part of the Orban regime's anti-Ukraine talking points that has in turn been directly amplified by Russia, but it is so specific and so obscure (not to mention, there's literally zero chance Marge knows what any of those words or issues mean, or could find Transcarpathia on a map) that there's no way she organically came up with it on her own. She's also been otherwise echoing word-for-word Russian propaganda about them being "the defenders of Christianity" by invading Ukraine, which is one of Putin's preferred/favorite narratives and plays into the function of the Russian Orthodox Church as a Kremlin booster. Hence, if Marge is directly repeating Putin's personal justifications, I'd say it is more likely than not that she's getting something out of it.

As I have said before, it is pretty clear that Putin is ordering Trump to get the House GOP to stall Ukraine aid in exchange for help in the election, and there is a significant chunk of the House GOP that is eager to suckle at the Russian propaganda teat in all circumstances. (See: Hunter Biden's laptop being a Russian disinformation operation from the start that got exposed when the House GOP impeachment effort went up in flames.) We have also consistently had networks of Russian agents and Russian money be exposed in Europe, where they are offering financial incentives to EU politicians to serve as Kremlin shills. Russian dirty money has beyond doubt entered the Republican Party at many, many levels; we had that whole investigation about how Trump and the Russians have been working in concert for a long time. Now, because getting Trump in power again is so important for the Russians, and the Russians' help is so important for Trump in trying to stay out of jail, the corruption is pretty systemic.

In short, I figure it is only a matter of time if/when we find out that the most stridently pro-Russian members of the Treason Caucus are actually being paid by or otherwise benefiting from Russian lobbyists, because they are fascist traitors who love money, will kiss Trump's ass in any circumstances, and are willing to do anything in the name of undermining America, Ukraine, Biden, and Western democracy in general. We know it is the way Russian destabilization, disinformation, and influence operations customarily work, and that they have previously and consistently worked in cahoots with MAGA, so yeah. If Marge and Co. aren't active Russian assets, financially or otherwise, I would be very surprised.

#stephenroot #ask #politics for ts #russia ukraine war

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republicansaredomesticterrorists · 2 days

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Whey you’re blaming Dems you’re regurgitating Republican and foreign propaganda.

The Isreal Lobby (AIPAC) is openly campaigning against Dems because they know Republicans will give Netanyahu a blank check to obliterate Gaza and possibly the West Bank.

Remember to take ownership of your part in ruining Biden’s chances and re-electing Trump. When things are a million times worse for Palestine and 10 million times worse for us maybe you’ll see the bigger picture.

Hamas started this on behalf of Iran and Putin and now Netanyahu is blowing it up. But keep repeating those GOP talking points about Biden. I can’t believe this needs to be repeated.

Don’t bring us back to the misery of the Trump era because Trump 2.0 will be on steroids and out for revenge.

#AIPAC funds Republicans #AIPAC fights against Democratic candidates #Republicans hate Palestinians and Muslims everywhere #Evangelical Republicans love Netanyahu and conservative Isrealis #republican assholes #maga morons #Gaza #Hamas #Palestinians #fuck netanyahu #traitor trump #crooked donald #traitor #republican hypocrisy #resist #republican values #never trump #republican family values

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vote-democrat-president-congress · 2 months

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Top Republican warns pro-Russia messages are echoed ‘on the House floor’

Rep. Michael R. Turner (R-Ohio), who chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, warns that pro-Russian propaganda is infiltrating the Republican Party. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)

Turner said Sunday that it was “absolutely true” that some Republican members of Congress were repeating Russian propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine instigated by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Turner did not specify which members he was referring to, but he said he agreed with House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), who said in an interview with Puck News last week that Russian propaganda had “infected a good chunk of my party’s base” and suggested that conservative media was to blame.

When asked on Sunday, Turner said he agreed with McCaul’s sentiments.

“We see directly coming from Russia attempts to mask communications that are anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages — some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor,” Turner said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/07/russian-propaganda-republicans-congress/

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