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‘Useful Idiot for Russia’: DNC Decides to Go Off on Jill Stein (www.thebulwark.com)

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“Jill Stein is a useful idiot for Russia. After parroting Kremlin talking points and being propped up by bad actors in 2016 she’s at it again,” DNC spokesman Matt Corridoni said in a statement to The Bulwark. “Jill Stein won’t become president, but her spoiler candidacy—that both the GOP and Putin have previously shown interest in—can help decide who wins. A vote for Stein is a vote for Trump.”

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[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

There's nothing funny about genocide

[-] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

To be clear, your question dodging and lack of curiosity is funny.

[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Your support of genocide is not

[-] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago

When NATO was founded, what did Lord Ismay famously say it was for?

[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

Something other than stopping Russia for committing genocide. Which means he was incorrect because that's what NATO is currently doing.

[-] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago

It's not controversial to say that the US / NATO helped trigger the war in Ukraine.

[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

Not on your state sponsored propaganda instance maybe. Can't wait till they play Swan Lake. Should be soon. What a classic

[-] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

While that's an accurate description of NYTimes and Wikipedia, they're probably not the outlets you had in mind.

Ample evidence suggests that enlarging NATO over the years stoked Moscow’s grievances and heightened Ukraine’s vulnerability. After the Cold War ended, Moscow wanted NATO, previously an anti-Soviet military alliance, to freeze in place and diminish in significance. Instead, Western countries elevated NATO as the premier vehicle for European security and began an open-ended process of eastward expansion. Even though, as the former secretary of state Madeleine Albright noted, the Russians “were strongly opposed to enlargement,” the United States and its allies went ahead anyway

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