You will recall that Maria Butina, an associate of Alexander Torsion with close ties to Putin’s Party and Russias Central Bank, was convicted of being a Russian spy. Her portfolio while being an unregistered agent of a foreign government included infiltrating the NRA and through that conduit to the Republican Party. She was one means by which Putin could influence the outcome of our 2016 Presidential Election.
You may also remember that the NRA spent a jaw dropping 55 million dollars on that election cycle. Money most certainly flowed from Russian sources to the NRA and indirectly to a pliant Republican Party. The stranglehold this money advantage gave GOP candidates is precisely why guns became such integral parts of their political stage craft. It serves the foreign policy aims of the Russian Federation to divide us politically while simultaneously preparing us for our own civil war.
Russian dark money ensconced a demonstrably incompetent yet somehow narcissistic man at the pinacle of our government in hopes of dividing NATO and weakening the United States. It worked. Donald Trump did leave the country much worse off than he found it.
The performative gun happy idiocy of Representatives Greene and Boebert is a direct inheritance of Butina’s influence on the Republican Party. The unbelievably deferential behavior of Senators and Media personalities towards Russias aggression gives rise to this question- “What does Putin have on …?” Too many elected representatives act as if they are compromised, and that is very likely because they are.
It is fascinating how much of the popular support these reptiles in Congress have lost on social media since sanctions started crushing their secret benefactors. It’s as if all those “PatriotMoms, and KansasUSA” supporters who flooded their twitter feeds with praise and support may actually have been bots. Who knew?
This is a years long enterprise and the rot goes all the way to the top. Republicans will fight tooth and nail because they know they are vulnerable. This election season we need to hang this around the neck of every GOPer who supported Putins aggression before the war. It seems clear that many of these same Senators and Representatives likely got elected or re-elected with tainted money. Ask every GOPer what the relationship is between their party and Putin, and ask them if they ever received large donations from Russia through the NRA. Let us make clear the we know they sold us out for 30 pieces of Silver. Ukraine is the tragic end to this unholy alliance.