by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:
A media shill for Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky’s corrupt regime has assembled an “enemies” list of nearly 400 American legislators, commentators, think tanks, and media outlets that are responsible for “impeding aid to Ukraine.”
Published by the little known Texty.org.ua website, the hit piece falsely claims that U.S. legislators and figures such as Tucker Carlson are Russian propagandists because they oppose U.S. funding for and involvement in Ukraine’s losing war.
But worse than that, U.S. taxpayers are financing the anti-American propaganda through the State Department.
TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
The Article
Under the headline Roller Coaster: From Trumpists to Communists. The forces in the U.S. impeding aid to Ukraine and how they do it, the attack piece alleges a conspiracy of “388 individuals and 76 organizations” that oppose aid to Ukraine.
“A little more than half of the individuals in this sample are right-wing, about one in eight are left-wing, and the rest do not associate themselves with a specific ideological platform,” the pro-war propaganda piece explains:
The right-wing individuals are mostly politicians affiliated with the Trump wing of the Republican Party. Most of the left-wing individuals are anti-war activists and left-leaning parties that urge the government to stop funding Ukraine. Most of the media, journalists, experts, and think tanks in this list do not have a clear right or left bias. …
Out of these, 50 individuals have collaborated with Russian media and government-funded initiatives during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The piece claims that the “ecosystem” of individuals and organizations it fingers “often mirror Kremlin propaganda.”
The article admits that it has no proof of any anti-Ukraine conspiracy linked to Russia. But again, those who oppose U.S. tax money for Ukraine’s fruitless war are simply regurgitating Russian talking points.
“Most of the people in our study do not have direct, proven ties to the Russian government or propagandists,” the article confesses:
However, the arguments they use to urge authorities to distance themselves from Ukraine echo key messages of Russian propaganda aimed at depriving Ukrainians of the ability to defend themselves with Western weapons and funds.
Included in the list of nogoodniks is Vance, along with “Russian propaganda disseminator” Tucker Carlson, the Cato Institute, The Heritage Foundation, Breitbart, the Daily Wire, The American Conservative, former U.S. Representative Ron Paul, the Libertarian Party, former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, and “conspiracy theorists” such as Alex Jones.
Another bad man: Jordan Peterson.
Also on the list were leftist members of Congress such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of the kooky “Squad.”
And, of course, there’s Orange Man Bad himself, Donald Trump, whom the pro-Ukraine propaganda piece mentions 45 times. Vance, another key villain in the narrative, appears eight times. With just four appearances, Gaetz must be a minor enemy of Ukraine.
The Letter
Thus did the two demand answers from Blinken.
“It is a substantively thin piece, largely an excuse to smear a large group of Americans who have been skeptical of aid to Ukraine in one form or another,” the lawmakers wrote:
But it is being broadcast as a part of a coordinated media strategy that has all the hallmarks of a U.S.-targeting influence operation. As the piece itself notes:
“We included 116 members of the U.S. House of Representatives (out of a total of 435) and 21 senators (out of 100) who did not support the bill for aid to Ukraine in April 2024. All of them are members of the Republican Party.”
That line does not appear in the main article but in a hyperlinked subsection titled “Politicians, media figures, experts. Who in the USA is against supporting Ukraine.”
Vance and Gaetz note that the founder of the group, one Anatoly Bondarenko, “is listed on a U.S. government website as supported by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.”
Read More @ TheNewAmerican.com
