Putin's Useful Idiot At Work

Invisible Fan · Sep 11, 2020

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That's a Babylon Bee headline if it weren't so ironic....

Since both parties are so power hungry, I assume these rogue "impeachment bait" Rudys are here to stay?

Reform is a dreaded r word in Washington

B-Bob · Sep 11, 2020

This political season is so so disheartening, but I'm darkly glad to see Nos FeRudy-tu back in the headlines on the daily. What a freak show.

NewRoxFan · Sep 12, 2020

Xerobull · Sep 12, 2020

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This political season is so so disheartening, but I'm darkly glad to see Nos FeRudy-tu back in the headlines on the daily. What a freak show.
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Sort of every day the past four years, no?

NewRoxFan · Sep 12, 2020

RayRay10 · Sep 14, 2020

RayRay10 · Sep 14, 2020

RayRay10 · Sep 15, 2020

GOP and Trump sure like to use a lot of ads with pictures from Eastern Europe or Russia. Here's another one:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/...-but-it-uses-a-picture-of-russian-jets-414883

Trump ad asks people to support the troops. But it uses a picture of Russian jets.
The Trump Make America Great Again Committee is run by both the Republican National Committee and the campaign.

A digital ad released by a fundraising arm of the Trump campaign on Sept. 11 calling on people to “support our troops” uses a stock photo of Russian-made fighter jets and weapons.

The ad, which was made by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, features silhouettes of three soldiers walking as a fighter jet flies over them. The ad first appeared on Sept. 8 and ran until Sept. 12.

“That’s definitely a MiG-29,” said Pierre Sprey, who helped design both the F-16 and A-10 planes for the U.S. Air Force. “I’m glad to see it’s supporting our troops.”

He noted the angle of the aircraft’s tail, the way the tail is swept far back, and the spacing of the engines, along with the tunnel between them.

Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies in Moscow, confirmed that the planes are Russian MiG-29s, and also said the soldier on the far right in the ad carries an AK-74 assault rifle.

The Trump Make America Great Again Committee is run by both the Republican National Committee and the campaign. Most of the low-dollar and digital donations raised by the committee goes to the campaign.

The image in the ad is a stock photo available on Shutterstock.com with the title “Military silhouettes of soldiers and airforce against the backdrop of sunset sky.” The creator of the image, named “BPTU,” says they are based in Andorra, but did not respond to a Facebook message.

After this story was published, the creator of the image, Arthur Zakirov, confirmed in a Facebook message that it shows a 3D model of a MiG-29, and that the soldiers were Russian models. He said it was a composite photo created five years ago and taken in three different countries showing Russian sky, Greek mountains and French ground.

“This is a completely recreated scene from various photographs of mine,” said Zakirov, a 34-year-old oil company analyst and hobbyist photographer based in the Russian city of Perm, about 700 miles east of Moscow.

“Today you hear about the Kremlin’s hand in U.S. politics. Tomorrow you are this hand,” he joked, saying he found the fact that his photo ended up in a Trump fundraising ad “pretty funny.”

“Everything happened through inattention,” he said, adding that the campaign had “bad fact-checking.”

The MiG-29, a twin-engine fighter jet designed in the Soviet Union that first flew in 1977, is the Russians’ mainstay fighter jet and has been sold all over the world. It was developed during the Cold War specifically to counter American F-15 and F-16s, and the U.S. even obtained a few to play the adversary in war games. The planes have recently been spotted at a Russian air base in Syria and also Libya.

Russia has also exported them to a number of countries, including North Korea, Syria, India and Uzbekistan. Iran also acquired 68 of the MiG-29s at the end of the Soviet Union. In 1997, the U.S. even bought 21 “nuclear-capable” MiG-29 planes from Moldova to keep them from getting in the hands of adversaries such as Iran.

The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. The RNC declined to comment.

Politicians have gotten in trouble in the past for running ads or creating content that featured Russian or other countries’ military equipment. Last October, Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) tweeted a picture of the Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy with the comment: “Happy birthday to the US Navy. To the men and women who serve to keep our waters safe, we thank you.” His office later took the tweet down.
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RayRay10 · Sep 15, 2020

NewRoxFan · Sep 18, 2020

One of trump's biggest defenders has his own russia explanation to provide...

NewRoxFan · Sep 21, 2020

NewRoxFan · Sep 22, 2020

Secret CIA assessment: Putin ‘probably directing’ influence operation to denigrate Biden

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top aides are “probably directing” a Russian foreign influence operation to interfere in the 2020 presidential election against former vice president Joe Biden, which involves a prominent Ukrainian lawmaker connected to President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, a top-secret CIA assessment concluded, according to two sources who reviewed it. On Aug. 31, the CIA published an assessment of Russian efforts to interfere in the November election in an internal, highly classified report called the CIA Worldwide Intelligence Review, the sources said. CIA analysts compiled the assessment with input from the National Security Agency and the FBI, based on several dozen pieces of information gleaned from public, unclassified and classified intelligence sources. The assessment includes details of the CIA’s analysis of the activities of Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach to disseminate disparaging information about Biden inside the United States through lobbyists, Congress, the media and contacts with figures close to the president. “We assess that President Vladimir Putin and the senior most Russian officials are aware of and probably directing Russia’s influence operations aimed at denigrating the former U.S. Vice President, supporting the U.S. president and fueling public discord ahead of the U.S. election in November,” the first line of the document says, according to the sources.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...irecting-influence-operation-denigrate-biden/

NewRoxFan · Sep 22, 2020

deb4rockets · Sep 22, 2020

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His defense of Putin shows his true allegiance. Its not to the people of our country.

FranchiseBlade · Sep 22, 2020

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Truly a disgrace. There is no doubt who did it.

edwardc · Sep 23, 2020

NewRoxFan · Oct 1, 2020

Someone that should know...

Trump’s ex-national security adviser says president is ‘aiding and abetting’ Putin
H.R. McMaster’s warning represents perhaps his harshest public criticism of the president since the retired general was ousted from the White House in 2018.

Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster said Thursday that President Donald Trump is “aiding and abetting” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to sow doubt about the American electoral system. The stern warning from McMaster, who Trump handpicked to lead the White House National Security Council in 2017, came in an interview on MSNBC, after he was asked whether he agreed that the president posed the greatest threat to U.S. election integrity. “I agree that he is aiding and abetting Putin’s efforts by not being direct about this, right? By not just calling out Putin for what he’s doing,” McMaster said. “You know, Putin gets away with, I mean, literally murder or attempted murder … because people don’t call him out on it,” he added. “And so they are able to continue with this kind of fire hose of falsehood, to sow these conspiracy theories. And we just can’t be our own worst enemies.”
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/01/former-national-security-adviser-trump-putin-424458

NewRoxFan · Oct 7, 2020

Other sites: epoch times, newser, the blaze...

How Russia Today Skirts High-Tech Blockade to Reach U.S. Readers
The Kremlin-backed outlet has been boosted by a news aggregator dominated by conservative media sites

The U.S. intelligence community’s assessment of the Russian efforts created a backlash against social-media companies, which were accused of providing platforms for a misinformation campaign aimed at influencing voters. Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and others have since implemented changes to limit the reach of state-run media. Yet RT continues to draw a large American audience, helped unwittingly by some of America’s most prominent conservative websites. The reason: Those news outlets agreed to join a distribution network that allows other members’ content to be displayed on their home pages.
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The company responsible for RT’s presence on RealClearPolitics is Mixi.Media. Since its launch in 2018, Mixi has assembled a network of right-leaning publishers, including National Review, The Daily Caller and Newsmax, as well as mainstream sites like RealClearPolitics. Also in Mixi’s fold are RT and another Russian state-backed outlet, Sputnik.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-ru...ech-blockade-to-reach-u-s-readers-11602078094

No Worries · Oct 7, 2020

Putin has special message for Americans.

KIm does as well

adoo · Nov 1, 2020

Scott atlas, who Trump’s anointed top advisor on the COVID-19 task force, has granted an interview w RT (Russia Today), a Russian propaganda group w ties to Kremlin

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