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More Blowback from U.S. Oppression

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is up in arms over Russia’s arrest of Alsu Kurmasheva, an employee of RFE/RL who holds dual U.S.-Russia citizenship. The charge? Failing to register as a “foreign agent” of the U.S. government. The New York Times reports that Kurmasheva is being accused of “collecting information about the mobilization of Russian university teachers into the army, something that could then be used to discredit the country.” Perhaps it’s worth mentioning that the Times article points out that RFE/RL is funded by the U.S. government.  RFE/RL head Jeffrey Gedmin exclaimed, “She needs to be released, so she can return to her family immediately.” Really? Well, where were Gedmin and RFE/RL when U.S. officials were going after Russian citizen Maria Butina’s for the “crime” of failing to register as a “foreign agent”? For the life of me, I don’t recall them exclaiming, “She needs to be released, so she can return to her family immediately.

A Pox on Many Houses in Ukraine

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When Russia invaded Ukraine, it immediately became an easy decision for today’s interventionists. Their position was both simple and simplistic: Ukraine is a sovereign and independent country. Russia initiated a war against Ukraine by invading the country. Therefore, Russia is bad and should be condemned. Moreover, the U.S. government, as well as NATO, should come to Ukraine’s defense by furnishing weaponry, money, and training, and possibly even troops. It’s worth pointing out that interventionists are not entirely consistent with respect to their opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. These same interventionists were squarely in favor of the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq some 20 years ago, as well as the resulting long-term occupations. Moreover, these same interventionists castigated and condemned anyone who failed to support the U.S. invasions of those two countries, just as Russian interventionists are saying about Russians who oppose their country’s invasion of Ukraine. What U.S. interventionists failed to recognize is that simply because Russia invaded Ukraine ...

Friendship with Russia Is Verboten

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Two days ago, I posted an article entitled “Time to Revisit the Maria Butina Case,” which showed that when it comes to playing the game of taking “political hostages," the U.S. government is certainly no piker. Pressuring the 30-year-old Butina to plead guilty to a ridiculous federal offense of “conspiring” to act as an agent of the Russian government, U.S. officials incarcerated her for a total of 15 months, including 4 months in solitary confinement, which many experts believe is a form of torture that can cause permanent mental damage. After that, they deported her to Russia in October 2019.  After the article was published, a reader sent me a link to an article from the New York Times dated November 19, 2021, entitled “After 15 Months in U.S. Prisons, She Now Sits in Russia’s Parliament.” The article provided an update on Maria Butina two years after she was forcibly deported to Russia, ...