Pay no attention to Ukraine or the criming of previous guy… the real enemy is China, and then there’s those gas prices.
US Senator Josh Hawley said... that the Biden administration should drop support for bringing Ukraine into NATO. He said that’s drawing our attention away from China.
What we can know, however, is that Putin is fully aware that he faces a divided U.S., and that influential voices on the right have been channeling much of his own propaganda.
By now the cast of Putin’s useful idiots is familiar, ranging from Tucker Carlson and Josh Hawley to Candace Owens, MTG, and Maria Bartiromo.
[...]
The loudest defender of the Kremlin’s view is, of course, the loudest voice in right wing media, Tucker Carlson, whose anti-Ukraine commentary has become a running feature of Russian State television.
"Vladimir Putin does not want Belgium,” explains Tucker. “He just wants to keep his western borders secure. That's why he doesn't want Ukraine to join NATO, and that makes sense."
As for Ukraine? "It's run by a dictator who's friends with everyone in Washington," Carlson said.
The Russians are, of course, thrilled.
morningshots.thebulwark.com/…
Last week, Celeste Wallander was (finally) confirmed to be DoD's assistant secretary for international security affairs in an 83-13 vote.
(For Josh Hawley) “To intentionally delay the confirmation of a critical Department of Defense nominee and a Russian expert at a time when tensions persist in Ukraine and Eastern Europe is supremely reckless and is making the American people less safe,” Chuck Schumer said.
www.politico.com/...
Trump now walks back some of his NARA comments, if only because he might become ineligible to run for POTUS again. Previous guy was "waving" classified documents in front of Mar-a-Lago guests for the past 8 months
The people who yelled about Hillary’s servers are super quiet about Trump stealing classified documents.
Some of the White House documents that Donald Trump improperly took to his Mar-a-Lago residence were clearly marked as classified, including documents at the “top secret” level, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The existence of clearly marked classified documents in the trove — which has not previously been reported — is likely to intensify the legal pressure that Trump or his staffers could face, and raises new questions about why the materials were taken out of the White House.
While it was unclear how many classified documents were among those received by the National Archives and Records Administration, some bore markings that the information was extremely sensitive and would be limited to a small group of officials with authority to view such highly classified information, the two people familiar with the matter said.
[...]
The Washington Post reported late last month that some of the White House records the National Archives turned over to the committee appeared to have been torn apart and then taped back together. The Post later reported that officials had recovered 15 boxes of presidential records from Mar-a-Lago, and that they suspected Trump had possibly violated laws concerning the handling of government documents — including those that might be considered classified.
www.washingtonpost.com/...