Marco Rubio said they shut R/FIMI because it had “silenced and censored the voices of Americans”. In fact its mission was to counter foreign disinformation.

Its closure leaves the US more vulnerable to hostile influence operations. Who could possibly benefit from that? 5/5

Beattie has also said that “Nato is a far greater threat to American liberty than Putin ever was”, and called Britain a “poor and pathetic kingdom” that would be “far better off under Chinese domination”. Oh yes, and his wife has family ties to Kremlin… 4/5

This despite the fact that Beattie has called for “brave and strong” Vladimir Putin to infiltrate “just about every Western institution”. 3/5

Beattie – sacked from Trump’s first administration for speaking at a conference attended by white supremacists — was tasked with destroying R/FIMI, the US agency charged with combating Russian propaganda… 2/5

Do that! x

Thank you..... and yes, I was wary of the comparison but get less so as time passes. All those Nazi salutes don't just happen by accident do they? I guess they think they're baiting the libs and all that guff.

You too! Very good, thanks, yes. Must get together some time...

Love Carney

Thanks Gerard, that was one of the best reviews I've ever had. 😀 Strangely I dropped into Bluesky today to find this NYTimes quote (via @sianushka.bsky.social and
@dluckarchivist.bsky.social). Parallels with Hitler are everywhere...