Back to the USSR. If you have a subscription to Russian TV, Sputnik or Pravda and you were thinking of canceling them, feel free. You now have Madison Cawthorn providing Russian propaganda to you, via Fox News. Vladimir Putin is mightily miffed that anybody is questioning his sovereign authority to waltz into Ukraine and take it over. And evidently Congressman Cawthorn feels the same way.

Putin may have lost Dana Rohrabacher and Donald Trump but by golly he has gained Madison Cawthorn. And he may have even recruited Cawthorn back in the day. Cawthorn tells an engaging yarn about going to a casino in St. Petersburg and making a BFF in a guy he met there. Except there is no gambling in St. Petersburg. And the BFF, by Cawthorn’s own admission, staged “a scam to get him in the same room” with the woman he eventually married. And is now divorcing, after eights months.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. One thing at a time.

First, some back story. If you missed reading a transcript of Putin’s latest press conference, wherein he went a little nuts, read the salient points now. The starting point is that Putin is pissed at Ukraine for releasing satellite images showing Russian forces building up at its border, while the Russian Defense Ministry announced massive “attack” drills in Crimea. The real kicker is when Putin compares Ukraine to California. Aye aye aye. Daily Beast:

When a reporter for Sky News asked whether Moscow could give security guarantees and promise not to invade its neighbor, Putin exploded: “You are demanding guarantees from us? It’s you who should give us guarantees. Immediately. Right now. And not talk it over for decades.” […]

Putin repeatedly portrayed Russia as the victim at his press conference, claiming Moscow had been dragged into the Ukraine conflict when it is really just a “mediator.”

“They want to make us a party to the conflict, and it’s not like that,” he said. (Apparently in his view it was not the Russian forces seizing Crimea in 2014, the years of Kremlin propaganda, Russian support for separatists, and the reported weapons supplies that made Russia a party to the conflict.)

I wish I had a video of this because Putin’s loathing of NATO is reportedly palpable at this point and he “seethed” as he talking about being cheated by them.

“They tricked us. Just cheated us. Five waves of NATO enlargement,” he said.

“And on top of that—no matter what we did, you always expressed ‘concerns.’ Get out of here with your ‘concerns.’ We will do what we consider necessary. We want to ensure our safety,” he said. […]

“Our actions will depend on the situation in the sphere of security. We made clear that the further expansion of NATO in the East is not acceptable. We’re not the ones who came to the States with missiles. They’re the ones setting up missiles right on our doorstep,” he said.

“And what if we set up missiles on the border of the U.S. and Canada? Or Mexico?”

Visibly angry, he went on to vent frustration over the idea of a sovereign Ukraine, suggesting the country actually belongs to Vladimir Lenin.

“And who did California belong to?” he asked, apparently referring to California being part of Mexico prior to the Mexican-American War.

“And Texas? Did they forget that or something? Well okay, everyone has forgotten, and they don’t remember the way they now remember about Crimea. We also don’t remember who created Ukraine–Lenin Vladimir Ilyich, when he created the Soviet Union.”

Now we get to Madison Cawthorn, Putin’s newest surrogate and useful idiot.

Now there is this.

Are you still sitting down or did you fall off your chair? The wife of eight months was his handler, possibly? I have no idea, but you have to admit, this is pretty strange that he would say “it was all a sham, a set up, he just wanted to put me in the same room with the girl who was eventually going to become my fiance.”

Now you’re thinking it can’t get worse than that, but predictably it does.

The cat is out of the bag. The dots are starting to connect in very damaging ways. Cawthorn is too stupid to know what he’s doing. Could it be that his wife of eight months left him because he wouldn’t go along with orders from somebody else? I have no facts to back that up, but certainly that’s what I’m going to go looking for, facts to substantiate that hypothesis.

Madison Cawthorn a Russian operative. Why not? Trump was. And you see from Putin’s meltdown how rabid he is. Putin isn’t stopping his agenda. If he can’t use Rohrabacher or Trump, Cawthorn will do. Any port in a storm, right?

Cawthorn’s ex may have known that it was about to hit the fan and that’s why she left, but I think it might be a bit too late for that.

 

 

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10 COMMENTS

  1. That’s a classic recruitment technique, which anyone who ever read Le Carre or even Clancy should know about. It’s been in the news within the last 20 years, more than once (that’s how they got the former guy, IIRC).

  2. “They’re the ones setting up missiles right on our doorstep,” he said.

    “And what if we set up missiles on the border of the U.S. and Canada? Or Mexico?”

    – – – – – – – – – –
    Um, I guess Vlad’s forgetting that his country has points that are within 50 miles (80 kilometers) of US territory.

    As far as those hypothetical missiles on the border of the US and Canada (or Mexico), if he managed to work out some sort of military agreement with either country (Mexico would be the more likely as Canada’s a NATO member and probably not ready to join Russia in a military alliance), then I suppose we wouldn’t have much say in the matter. And that’s the key: The countries on Russia’s “doorstep” are sovereign nations which REQUESTED those missiles. (Quite likely, the requests were made to “suggest” that Russia keep on its side of the border and not get any ideas about invading them.)

    • Actually it’s a LOT closer than people realise. In the Aleutians, the distance between Big Diomede (Russia) and Little Diomede (US) is only 2.4 miles (3.8 Km)

  3. “Well okay, everyone has forgotten, and they don’t remember the way they now remember about Crimea. We also don’t remember who created Ukraine–Lenin Vladimir Ilyich, when he created the Soviet Union.”

    Okay, maybe so. But, historically, Ukraine’s been under the control of MANY countries–about 300 years ago, the northern part was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth while the coastal areas were part of the Ottoman Empire and just over 100 years ago, the western part of Ukraine was a part of Poland and an INDEPENDENT Ukrainian state was established following the collapse of Tsarist Russia (with no input from Lenin or any other Soviet leadership; Lenin would back a Communist Ukrainian state but he didn’t “create” Ukraine).
    As for Crimea, the Soviet-era Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (the Communist-era predecessor to Putin’s current nation) GAVE the peninsula to Ukraine and both the RSFSR and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic agreed to the change in boundaries (as the Soviet Union’s Constitution mandated). So, if Ukraine “owes” its existence because of Lenin, then Russia needs to return Crimea to Ukraine (as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Kliment Voroshilov and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Nikita Khrushchev were the men who authorized the exchange).
    Like any tyrant, Putin wants to have things both ways.

  4. “Could it be that his wife of eight months left him because he wouldn’t go along with orders from somebody else? I have no facts to back that up, but certainly that’s what I’m going to go looking for, facts to substantiate that hypothesis.”

    Why look for facts? The right-wing does nothing but spew lies and other fact-free stuff and NO ONE calls them on it. Liberals and progressives make innocent factual errors (like misspelling “Madson Cawthorne”) and are routinely attacked for “deliberately spreading falsehoods/lies” (and other liberals/progressives chastise them for not checking their material before publishing the stuff). THAT is why we keep losing. We play nice while they play dirty (and get rewarded for doing so).
    I say, just leave it as a firm statement of “His wife left him because he wouldn’t go along with orders from his masters” and make Cawthorne and the right-wing prove it’s not true.

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