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> Before being named U.S. attorney, Martin appeared on Russia-backed media networks more than 150 times, The Washington Post reported last week. In one appearan
by tzs 2y ago
> Before being named U.S. attorney, Martin appeared on Russia-backed media networks more than 150 times, The Washington Post reported last week. In one appearance on RT in 2022, he said there was no evidence of military buildup on Ukraine’s boarders only nine days before Russia invaded the country. He further criticized U.S. officials as warmongering and ignoring Russia security concerns.
This is getting ridiculous. Is there anyone associated with this administration who does not have a record of promoting Russia's positions?
- Fauntleroy 2y ago[flagged]
- walrus01 2y agoWell, considering they have a very high ranking guy in the Putin regime who considers that to be his full time job, google "Vladislav Surkov", they seem to be doing a fairly effective job of it so far.
- hightrix 2y agoRussia has a pretty high ranking guy in the US Government as well, google Krasnov.
- esseph 2y agoThey'd be the exact same. It's like like Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics was a wish list.
- kylecazar 2y agoIf they were any good at it there would probably be less overt Russian sympathizing.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y ago[flagged]
- jfengel 2y agoExcept that's not coming from the top. Tens of millions of people wanted this. Maybe this is indeed what Russia would do to us. But we're beating them to the punch by doing it to ourselves.
- r053bud 2y agoWe voted for this! This is “democracy” at work
- ty6853 2y agoI mean yes? Democracy is a pretty poor model for governance. IMO peak enlightenment happened circa the 17th or 18th century when classical liberalism decided government should be based on individual liberties and anything outside of that is decided democratically not because it is a good system but because votes are roughly a tally of who would win if we all pull knives on each other because we didn't like the vote.
- timeon 2y agoSeems like US-centric view. Many countries had several iterations since then.
- entropicdrifter 2y ago[flagged]
- makeitdouble 2y agoDemocracy is not 2 parties doing voter suppression and gerrymandering as a filter to pass the result to an electoral college. The US system was never designed to be fair to individuals in the first place, pointing at it as a failure of democracy is IMHO pulling the actual issues under the rug.
- rayiner 2y agoIt’s basically impossible to engage in meaningful voter suppression in a country where election results can be cross-checked against high-quality polling. “Gerrymandering” also has no effect on Presidential elections. And in 2024, Republicans won a larger share of the House popular vote than their share of House seats.
- makeitdouble 2y ago
- NelsonMinar 2y agoMartin was also at the coup attempt on Jan 6 and on that day said "Like Mardi Gras in DC today: love, faith and joy. Ignore #FakeNews". https://archive.ph/jekzQ https://archive.ph/jekzQ
- kristopolous 2y ago[flagged]
- NelsonMinar 2y agoRT is not legit. It is Russian propaganda. When those people participated they were collaborators.
- myst 2y ago[flagged]
- usernomdeguerre 2y agoIf NelsonMinar doesn't say it, I will.
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- thenberlin 2y agoEntirely uncritical state controlled or substantially aligned media masquerading as news is always bad and should be criticized. See also almost anyone called on in White House press briefings these days. Plus, you are saying it like all propaganda is somehow the same. Rosie the Riveter != "Russia isn't going to do anything...well, it's America's fault...NATO something something...actually, Ukraine basically deserved it."
- consumer451 2y agoNot who you are responding to, but given that as rational humans, we have the capacity to make non-binary comparisons, Kremlin propaganda is indeed far worse than most. I say this as a European who sees clear flaws in the US system, but that does not make the Russian system good, or even a little good. It is objectively horrible. The Russian people, for one, deserve far better. It is important to point out that Russian propaganda is actually excellent propaganda. However, their message is the at the very bottom: There is no truth, up is down, nothing matters, the invader is the victim, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_propaganda_in_the_Russian_Federation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_propaganda_in_the_Russia...
- BannedUser1 2y ago[flagged]
- hjgjhyuhy 2y agoYeah, everything about this administration makes perfect sense if we assume that Trump is a Russian asset. Of course billionaires like Thiel and Musk have their say as well. I wouldn’t be surprised to see America sell weapons to Russia, and provide them military support in the future when they launch their next invasion.