How Tulsi Gabbard Became a Favorite of Russia’s State Media

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-18 21:43:52 | Updated at 2024-11-18 23:26:05 1 hour ago

How Tulsi Gabbard Became a Favorite of Russia’s State Media
The New York Times ^ | Nov. 18, 2024, 4:05 p.m. ET | Steven Lee Myers, Jim Rutenberg, Julian E. Barnes

Posted on 11/18/2024 1:35:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

In 2017, when she was still a Democratic member of Congress, Tulsi Gabbard traveled to Syria and met the country’s authoritarian president, Bashar al-Assad. She also accused the United States of supporting terrorists there.

The day after Vladimir V. Putin began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ms. Gabbard blamed the United States and NATO for provoking the war by ignoring Russia’s security concerns.

She has since suggested that the United States covertly worked with Ukraine on dangerous biological pathogens and was culpable for the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany in September 2022. European prosecutors and U.S. officials say that sabotage was carried out by Ukrainian operatives.

Ms. Gabbard’s comments have earned her sharp rebukes from officials across the political spectrum in Washington, who have accused her of parroting the anti-American propaganda of the country’s adversaries. Her remarks have also made her a darling of the Kremlin’s vast state media apparatus — and, more recently, of President-elect Donald J. Trump, who this week nominated her to oversee the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies and departments.

Her nomination as the director of national intelligence has raised alarms among national security officials, not only because of her lack of experience in intelligence but also because she has embraced a worldview that mirrors disinformation straight out of the Kremlin’s playbook.

No evidence has emerged that she has ever collaborated in any way with Russia’s intelligence agencies. Instead, according to analysts and former officials, Ms. Gabbard seems to simply share the Kremlin’s geopolitical views, especially when it comes to the exercise of American military power.

In Russia, the reaction to her appointment has been gleeful, even if Mr. Putin’s government remains wary of American policies, even under a second Trump administration.

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TRANSLATION: "Russia Collusion," Part Deux.

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Send her to a 2 week coding, that’s all she needs. Can also be taken on-line.

2 posted on 11/18/2024 1:38:13 PM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")

To: E. Pluribus Unum

She’s catching a lot of flak.

3 posted on 11/18/2024 1:40:36 PM PST by McGruff (Making America Great Again)

To: McGruff

McCarthyism, pure and simple. As the left defines that term.

4 posted on 11/18/2024 1:41:33 PM PST by TheConservator (To bar Trump from the presidency, libtards are happy to trash 235 years of the rule of law)

To: McGruff

Over the target as they say.

5 posted on 11/18/2024 1:41:34 PM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)

To: Frank Drebin

6 posted on 11/18/2024 1:42:58 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)

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