Greg Olear: Eight Ways Rand Paul is a Kremlin Stooge

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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/eight-ways-rand-paul-is-a-kremlin


Randal Howard “Rand” Paul, the only sitting member of Congress to be beaten up by his next-door neighbor, made headlines last week for blocking U.S. aid to Ukraine. “Congress is trying yet again to ram through a spending bill—one that I doubt anyone has actually read,” he tweeted, “and there’s no oversight included into how the money is being spent.”

This sounds perfectly reasonable, an elected official safeguarding our taxpayer money. But as usual, Paul’s hardline libertarian orthodoxy is just an ideological cover for helping Vladimir Putin. That’s who benefits from Paul holding up the aid package. Not the American people. Not our Ukrainian allies. The Russian dictator and his raping, pillaging occupying forces.

It’s not like this is a one-time thing. Time and time again, Rand Paul has furthered the aims of our enemies in Moscow. He did this when he lobbied for sanctions to be lifted on Russian nationals close to Putin. He did this when defending Putin’s heinous military actions in Syria. He did this when voting against Montenegro joining NATO. He did this during Trump’s first impeachment. It’s kind of his jam.

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My oath of office is to the U.S. Constitution, not to any foreign nation. Congress is trying yet again to ram through a spending bill – one that I doubt anyone has actually read – and there’s no oversight included into how the money is being spent.
May 13th 2022

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When we look at his behavior over the years, the pattern becomes obvious. Whether he’s a full-on Russian asset or just a useful idiot—and he is definitely stupid enough to be the latter—the junior Senator from Kentucky is, in the words of his late Republican colleague John McCain, “working for Vladimir Putin.”

Here are eight ways we can tell that Rand Paul is a Kremlin stooge:


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