“Thomas Massie’s Russia Ties Resurface Ahead of Ukraine Aid Vote,” reports Newsweek.
“Ahead of Saturday’s vote in the House,” writes reporter Ewan Palmer, “a number of social media users have criticized Massie for not backing additional aid to Ukraine in its fight against Russia, while noting his voting record in support of Moscow.”
Oh, a number of social media users, you say? Well then, by all means, let’s investigate.
One social media user, Newsweek informs us, contends that Massie is one of the most “pro-Putin Republicans in the House.”
In contemporary left-wing parlance, “pro-Putin” describes anyone who opposes sending Volodymyr Zelensky a blank check. Now, if your argument is that Massie is functionally “pro-Putin” for voting against Ukrainian aid, so be it. But if you fail to mention that Massie, a libertarian, also opposes — as far as I can tell — every foreign aid bill and any resolution that even deals with foreign nations, you’re just being a dishonest hack.
Now, I’m no Massie fan; I find him unserious a lot of the time. But, unlike, say, the members of “the squad,” he doesn’t only vote against resolutions and aid to our longtime allies, which bolsters Iran and Hamas.
Newsweek says historian Timothy Snyder also tweeted that it was, “Worth recalling that Rep. Massie socialized with Russian spies and defended one in the press.” This too is a contextless slander.
The alleged “spy” in question was Maria Butina, a low-level Russian transfer student who began befriending conservative activists years
