Everyone who disagrees with me is a Russian agent

.@Snowden was likely being sarcastic, but he is rightfully mocking a common neoconservative tactic that many on the Left now also use: Arguing that not wanting a new U.S. war over Ukraine (or any other country) means you are siding with the enemy.https://t.co/vgW5Q56H63

— Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) February 17, 2022

From my latest at BASEDPolitics, “The NSA whistleblower was likely being sarcastic, but he is—rightly—mocking a common neoconservative tactic that many on the Left now also use: Arguing that not wanting a new U.S. war over Ukraine (or any other country) means you are siding with the enemy…

Just ask ‘Russian Stooge’ Rand Paul, who once committed the unpardonable sin of wanting diplomacy with Russia instead of war. The late Senator John McCain accused Paul of ‘working for Vladimir Putin’ for opposing bringing Montenegro into NATO (aka preventing war). Or recall when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of being a ‘Russian asset’ due to the veteran Gabbard’s non-interventionist views.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of Trump in 2018, 'Just as I have said to the president: With him, all roads lead to Putin,' further fueling the conspiracy theory that continues to permeate her party.

Right now, the debate over whether or not the U.S. should take military action is the primary determiner of which Americans are or aren’t Russian agents in the minds of many Democrats.

If you oppose a new war, you might be one.”

Read the entire column.