The attack on American democracy is real, isn't that right, Moscow Mitch?

April 26, 2022
By John Haltiwanger

The Kentucian was wise enough to not be photographed with Butina regardless of the NRA contribution to Rand Paul of $104,446 to his political campaign (click here). The NRA was being clever to give the biggest contributions to the GOP candidate most likely to lean into gun laws.

Genocide doesn't need a reason except hate. Indeed, the Senator was well paid for by Russian Dark Money  through the NRA. Even today, after January 6th, Rand Paul feels an obligation to blame Ukraine for the genocide of it's own people.

Sen. Rand Paul (click here) on Tuesday received fierce pushback from Secretary of State Antony Blinken after the Kentucky Republican said that Ukraine was "part of Russia" during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

Paul said there was "no justification" for Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, but added "it does not follow that there's no explanation for the invasion." The GOP senator cited Russia's qualms with Kyiv's NATO ambitions, which have not advanced in 14 years, and accused the Biden administration of "beating the drums to admit Ukraine" to the alliance.

Blinken rejected Paul's suggestion that the administration was "agitating" for Ukraine's NATO membership, stating that the US was "standing up" for the alliance's open door policy and "a basic principle that one country can't dictate to another the choices it makes about with whom it allies."...

This is interesting. And everyone thinks it is "just politics." The Republicans were circumventing sanctions and we wonder why they don't matter. Traitors. I can't help but wonder if Paul voted against the sanctions and why?

August 9, 2018
By Ron Elving

By now, (click here) practically everyone has seen that picture of the two guys at President Trump's weekend rally in Ohio wearing T-shirts that said: "I'd Rather be a Russian than a Democrat!"

Many have also seen the visuals of Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul hobnobbing in Moscow this week with members of the Russian Council, sometimes called his "counterparts." These included the chairman of the council's foreign policy panel, Konstantin Kosachev, who happens to be under official U.S. sanction for his government's actions against our government.

But that didn't seem to bother Paul, who invited Kosachev and others to visit the USA.

Indeed, this sanction and other tokens of disapproval imposed on Russian officials in the past year have not seemed to chill the enduring warmth between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump. Paul carried a handwritten note from Trump to Putin on his trip....

August 6, 2018

By Mary Ilyushina

Moscow - Sen. Rand Paul (click here) on Monday invited Russian lawmakers to Washington after meeting Russian members of parliament in Moscow.

“I am pleased to announced that we will be continuing this contact,” Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said in Moscow. “We agreed and we invited members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Russia to come to the US to meet with us in the US, in Washington.”

Paul is in Moscow meeting with Russian lawmakers in a trip he sees as a continuation of US President Donald Trump’s diplomatic outreach to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and comes several weeks after Trump invited Putin to DC as well. Paul has been one of Trump’s most outspoken supporters following the criticism Trump faced – including from some within his own party – for the US President’s handling of his meeting with Putin in July. During a news conference in Helsinki at the time, Trump declined to back the conclusion of the US intelligence that Russia interfered with the US presidential election over Putin’s denials, though Trump later said when he was back in the US that he misspoke....

Most Western countries as well as communist Russia has right wing extremists. The Azov Battalion are the ones that took on the hardest fight for the people and land of Ukraine in Mariupol.

Such extremist groups are NO REASON FOR GENOCIDE!

April 11, 2022
By Marc Bennetts

In a plush Italian restaurant (click here) halfway between Red Square and Russia’s parliamentary building, Maria Butina, an MP with President Putin’s ruling party, sipped green tea and spoke of Nazis.

A former gun rights activist, Butina, 33, made headlines in 2018 when she was convicted by an American court of conspiring to infiltrate Republican circles. Her case became a cause célèbre for Moscow, which alleged the charges were politically motivated and aimed at undermining a summit between Putin and President Trump. She served 15 months in prison....

Hm. Scaly Mountain is where Mark Meadows pretended to live and register to run for the US House. Isn't that the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains?

Just sayin'.

September 21, 2017
By Eleanor Klibanoff

Within hours of last month’s deadly white supremacist rally (click here) in Charlottesville, the national media descended on the small northern Kentucky city of Florence, where alleged murderer James Alex Fields grew up.

This was not the first time a national spotlight shone on Kentucky in the wake of racially-motivated violence.

Hate groups have long called Kentucky and the region home — from the days when white supremacists influenced state and local government, to 11 years ago, when Ku Klux Klan members beat a young man nearly to death at a county fair, to today.

“For white supremacists, they view (Kentucky and) Appalachia, wrongly, as a place where there are white folks who are very independent, don’t like the government and who are sympathetic to their messages,” said Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center....