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Rolling Stone
Ryan Bort
March 9, 2022
Maria Butina, the Russia agent who infiltrated the National Rifle Association and charmed several Republican figures before landing an 18-month prison sentence, has emerged as one of Vladimir Putins most vocal advocates as Russian forces continue to wreak havoc on Ukraine and its people. In fact, Butina is so deep in Putins propaganda hole that shes suggesting its Ukraine itself, not Russia, laying waste to Ukraine.
We have tons of evidence that the Russia army does not touch, does not bomb civilian populations, she told BBC Radios Nick Robinson on Wednesday.
The remark came at the end of a tense exchange in which Robinson pressed Butina on whether she believed Ukraine has been bombing itself. I want to seriously see the evidence that these are Russians, Butina said before touting Russias plan to create humanitarian corridors to evacuate people from Ukrainian cities under attack. The corridors, however, lead into Russia and Belarus. They are citizens of Ukraine, they should have the right to evacuate to the territory of Ukraine, a spokesperson for Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky told Reuters.
Are you suggesting that the shells that are flattening Ukrainian cities are being fired by Ukrainians? Robinson asked again.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/maria-butina-russian-agent-says-ukraine-bombing-itself-1318782/
ALSO THIS:
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ProudMNDemocrat
(16,783 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)And with members of what's left of the NRA.
BOTH factions thought so much of this treasonous filth bucket. SMDH...
viva la
(3,284 posts)welcomed with open arms by the GOP, including several GOP politicos she "honey-trapped," and that she filtered millions of Putin rubles through the NRA to the Republicans.
GOP== Gullibles of Putin
muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)"She is a Putin loyalist, who makes social propaganda videos backing the war, and she was jailed when she was in the United States, for conspiring to infiltrate political organizations, including the National Rifle Association."
viva la
(3,284 posts)Not to mention GOP, Republicans, and Trump.
She was a honey trap aimed specifically at Republican pols. It was a deliberate infiltration directed from Moscow...
Boy, I hope some day there is one great book that really explains everything and how it all connects to Trump and Putin--
J. Anthony Lukas Nightmare did that for Watergate, I think, though of course other books were also useful.
It takes a far more incisive mind than mine to keep track of all these different strands of corruption.
But Buttina always pings my strings, because she is SO old-style KGB -- a honey/money trap.
The boyfriend/dupe from South Dakota was arrested too, though for a related finacial grift, as I recall-- but he was pardoned by Trump in Trump's last desperate pardon party.
Karadeniz
(22,492 posts)Had to look it up. I don't speak Russian.
From JustLearn
"many people often use the following sentence: (Zakroyi svoyi rot, suka!), which means Shut your mouth, bitch!"
More cuss words at link
https://www.justlearn.com/blog/russian-curse-words
Karadeniz
(22,492 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,092 posts)Tell that to the Chechens and Georgians.
intrepidity
(7,290 posts)until he admitted they were.
SYFROYH
(34,165 posts)But she can still go to hell.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,933 posts)I mean why would Russia do such a thing as invade Ukraine?
Maria should be locked up in an American prison!
Wicked Blue
(5,830 posts)Chainfire
(17,526 posts)They hate life. They are willing to die to make Putin look like a heel. Now that is dedication that deserves reward.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,500 posts)Grins
(7,205 posts)Maria Butina, the Russia agent and GOP fuck toy who infiltrated the National Rifle Association
I have a number of images of Butina. In every one of them she is shown with - Republicans,
And. NOT. ONE. Democrat.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)After she BSed about 'Nazi actions' , he asked "do you think President Zelenskyy is a Nazi?" she replied "according to his actions, absolutely". He replied:
"He's Jewish; his great-grandfather died fighting the Nazis, as part of Russia. I put it to you again that he's a bit of an unlikely Nazi."
She BSed "Nazism is about killing, murdering, torturing ... based upon their race, their nationality, their country of origin..."
"So is Vladimir Putin a Nazi? Because he is currently bombing civilians in cities all over Ukraine. By your definition, is he a Nazi?"
Robinson's maternal grandparents were Jewish Germans who fled the country in 1933. He was in Kyiv when the invasion started, and he'd already expressed his disgust at the 'Nazi' smear.
It ends up, after she's claimed there is evidence Ukraine is bombing its own people:
"You just said you had the evidence. What's the evidence?"
"Because Russians just don't do it."
"Ah, Russians just don't do it. Other than in countries like Syria, in Chechnya, other than in Ukraine today..."
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Shame on her, and her Republican playmates.