If you oppose U.S. involvement in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, you’re “rooting for Russia.”
If you don’t hate Russian leader Vladimir Putin with sufficient zeal, you’re a “Putin sympathizer.”
Worst of all, you are, like President Donald Trump, a “Russian asset.”
That’s the latest line about Fox News talker Tucker Carlson and Republicans skeptical of war from leftist Twitter and the Democratic Party, which desperately seek to divert attention from the purposely wrecked U.S. economy and planned invasion on our southern border.
The message is clear: No opposition to globalist Deep State priorities is allowed. Shut up, or you’ll be branded a traitor.
Carlson Attack
Leftists are attacking Carlson because he has repeatedly said the United States should stay out of the war, and confessed that he supports Russia over Ukraine. Siding with Ukraine demonstrates loyalty to America; siding with Russia is disloyal.
“No sane American approves of what Russia has done in Ukraine. We certainly don’t and we don’t know anyone who does,” Carlson said last night in opposing U.S. involvement in the war.
Noting that Biden has said he will not commit troops to fight Russia, Carlson said “many in Washington are pushing for a hot war with nuclear-armed Russia.” GOP Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois wants the United States to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine and shoot down Russian aircraft, he observed.
“How far is the United States and its population, who would fight that war, prepared to take this conflict and to what end?” Carlson continued:
Once we start bombing Russia, will Putin withdraw his forces from Ukraine? What will be left of Ukraine by that point? How are we sure that Putin, who we say is deranged, won’t go nuclear if a war with him begins?
Last week, Carlson rightly reported that Americans now hate Putin, having received instructions from the Democrats and their Mainstream Media Information Ministry.
“Many Americans have obeyed this directive,” he said:
They now dutifully hate Vladimir Putin, maybe you’re one of them. Hating Putin has become the central purpose of America’s foreign policy. It’s the main thing that we talk about. Entire cable channels are now devoted to it.
But before that hatred incites a war that might quickly escalate into a nuclear confrontation, Carlson said Americans should ask themselves a few questions:
Why do I hate Putin so much? Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? Has he shipped every middle class job in my town to Russia?
Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked my business and kept me indoors for two years? Is he teaching my children to embrace racial discrimination? Is he making fentanyl? Is he trying to snuff out Christianity? Does he eat dogs?
These are fair questions, and the answer to all of them is no. Vladimir Putin didn’t do any of that. So why does permanent Washington hate him so much?
One answer is that Putin won’t kowtow to woke leftists, who demand acceptance of and obedience, for instance, to homosexual and “transgender” narratives. He is insufficiently progressive. Another is that leftists didn’t start hating Russia until communism collapsed. Only then did Russia become their enemy.
That aside, Twitter trended today with this false claim: “Tucker Carlson is a Russian asset.”
He is also, of course, a “traitor.”
Another popular smear: Carlson is another Tokyo Rose, the name for Japanese propagandist Iva Toguri D’Aquino during World War II.
“Tucker Carlson is being quoted on Russian TV, justifying the cowardly Russian beatdown in Ukraine,” horror novelist Stephen King wrote. “He’s our very own Tokyo Rose.”
“Fox News is just a Fifth Column for Russia,” another user wrote. “Add in the GOP for good measure. Tokyo Rose was arrested and Tried. Tucker Carlson?”
And on and on.
No Spine
A week ago, Representative Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) suggested that Republicans are traitors.
“Republicans are rooting for Russia,” he tweeted:
And Russia is replaying their cheers to rally Russians. When I was a kid, the guiding principle of the Republican Party was toughness on Russia. Ronald Reagan built a whole Presidency on it. WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT PARTY? WHERE DID ITS SPINE GO?
That was rich coming from an elected official who was involved with a Chinese swallow named Fang-Fang, but self awareness has never been a strong suit of the average leftist.
“They found they had more in common with Putin than they have with democracy loving Americans,” an unknown romance writer replied to Fang-Fang’s former bosom pal.
Representative Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) says Republicans aren’t yelling sufficiently about Putin:
I can’t begin to express how traitorous it is for a former president to praise the savage actions of Putin. He should be condemned by Republicans in Congress. I can’t hear you! Cat got your tongue? Or is it fear of losing the next election?
